Iuri wrote:Hi! I'm currently trying to learn all of the English words of Anglo Saxon and Old Norse and Scandinavian origin, I already have all the English I need so I have no reason to do it other than my desire to do it and my love for Germanic languages in general. I'm following these wikipedia lists with the hope that they are comprehensive but I wonder, do they really have all of the Anglo Saxon/Old Norse words? How many words derived from Anglo Saxon are still there in the modern English language, does anybody know? I couldn't find any definite number on the web.
Of course that I don't expect anyone to count the lists, I only wanted some of your thoughts about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_E ... xon_originhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_E ... rse_originOne side effect that I
am expecting if I master these words is to boost my English literacy, guessing words derived from French and Latin is kinda ok for me, being a native speaker of Portuguese, but guessing words of Germanic origin is hard, so I'm hoping these will help me boost my "germanic awareness" to a level close to that of a native speaker.
I'm doing this for my own pleasure however, so I have no hurry, I'm going to take this slowly and steadily, I'm even thinking of compiling and binding a dictionary for personal use from printing the pages of that big Oxford dictionary that I have access to at my library.
Google sheets, sort English words by frequency.
Add googletranslate formulas for West Frisian / dutch and a latin language Portuguese/Spanish/Italian?
Should indicate where each word came from to some degree.
Where I'm from in England (Suffolk) it's meant to be possible for a local 6 year old and a Frisian 6 year old to communicate. Could be rubbish, but who knows? A few miles from where I grew up I (and a friend) couldn't understand a local (ald bhoy) .... we were asking where the village hall were and we didn't understand anythin the ald bhoy a say. He were speakin funny, loike a ferigner.
I once found a book comparing Suffolk dialects to Scots (Lowland?) and pointing out that both had many Anglo-Saxon aspects remaining that had been lost in other dialects.
Norfolk is similar to Suffolk -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_dialect Grammar and verb conjugation are different from English.
Arguably Norfolk is more remote, both heavily influenced by Danes (I'm guessing).
This isn't loading for me at present, but might be interesting.. (or it might be dodgy, do your own checking!)
http://dilek.info/E/IL/THE_SUFFOLK_DIAL ... ENTURY.PDF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_E ... xon_origin - they missed one ...
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