elements making up the english vocabulary

lecture 5. elements making up the english vocabulary. latin and greek borrowings discussion points: 1. introductory notes 2. the foreign element in the english vocabulary 3. the celtic element in the english vocabulary key words: foreign element, word-stock, borrowing, native stock, loan-words, ordinary english, commonly used, semantic groups. the foundation and the framework of the english vocabulary is the native element brought to britain in the fifth century by the german tribes who eventually overran the britons. despite the borrowings already made before the anglo-saxons settled in britain and despite the large scale borrowings of the later periods native words are still at the core of the language. they stand for the fundamental things dealing with everyday objects and things. …

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