The English Language

17th century abstract adjectives adopted affixes ancestors Anglo-Saxon appear Arabian Aryan beautiful become belong Celtic Celts character Chaucer Christian Church civilization classical Latin compounds Conquest culture Danish derived descended dialect distinction Dutch early borrowing England English language English words Europe express formation forms of speech four humours French words genius German German language Gothic architecture grammar Greece Greek words human immense important inflections influence instance large number later Latin word Law French literary Low German Low Latin meant medieval Middle Ages Midland modern English modern words native words natural Norman Norman Conquest nouns number of words old English old word origin perhaps period philosophers phrase popular possessed present meaning primitive pronunciation race religious revival rich Roman Scandinavian Scholasticism sense Shakespeare sound sources suffixes Teutonic thought and feeling traced translated verb words borrowed words in English writings