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abstract acquired adjectives adopted affixes ancestors Anglo-Saxon appearance Arabian Arthur Thomson Aryan believed belong Celtic Century words character Chaucer Christian Church civilization classical Latin compounds Conquest culture Danish derived dialect Dictionary distinction Dutch early borrowing England English language Europe express foreign formation forms of speech four humours French words genius German Gothic architecture grammar Greek words guage H. A. L. Fisher human important inflections influence instance large number later Latin word learned literary literature Low German Low Latin medieval ment Middle Ages Midland modern English natural ness Norman Norman Conquest nouns number of words old English old word origin Oxford perhaps period philosophy phrase poets popular present meaning primitive Prof Professor race religious revival Roman Saxon Scholasticism sense Shakespeare sound sources suffixes Teutonic tion traced translations verb vocabulary words in English writings XIVth XIXth XVIIth Century XVth