Leksikoloogia
languages. The very core is mono-syllabic (93 of the first 100 words nad the other seven are
two-syllabic). The core vocabulary is predominantly germanic.
3) Native and foreign elements
Native vocabulary:
INDO-EUROPEAN- mother, foot, heart, father, sea, night etc
GERMANIC- friend, bidge, ship, life, heaven
OLD-ENGLISH- bad, bird, woman, lady and gospel
LATIN- cheap, pepper, street, mile, butter, cheese, wine, inch, ounce, pound, kitchen, plum,
cup, dish, mint, leitchester, clorcester, colonia, lincoln, fossbrok, mass, monk, nunn, bishop,
abbot, minster, apostle, pope, altar, hymn, democratic, juvenile, sophisticated, aboration,
enthusiasm, permissions, imaginary, allusion, anacroism, dexterity, nucleous, formula,
vertegra, corpuscle, atomic, carnivorous, incubate, molacule, i.e- that is, viz- videlicet, etc- et
cetera, e.f- confer Latin adjectives for english nouns- nose-nasal, mouth-oral, sun-solar,