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Germanic vocabulary in English

From Teflpedia

Germanic vocabulary in English is English vocabulary that’s derived from Germanic sources.

This constitutes the majority of the commonest high frequency words used in English. They came into the language via Old English, Middle English through to Modern English.

Most common, single syllable verbs are Germanic in origin.

More recent German-English loans


Contrast Latinate vocabulary.