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  2. List of English words of Old English origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).

  3. Lists of English words by country or language of origin

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    Australian places with Dutch names; List of English words of Etruscan origin; List of English words of Finnish origin; List of English words of French origin. Glossary of ballet, mostly French words; List of French expressions in English; List of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations; List of pseudo-French words adapted to ...

  4. List of English words of Brittonic origin - Wikipedia

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    See List of English words of Welsh origin a list which includes Cornish (e.g. coracle; crag; corgi (type of dog), likely flannel; likely gull (type of bird), iron, lawn, wrasse (type of fish)) See Gaelic (e.g. keening, bog, bother, hubbub, glen, clan) See Breton (chiefly local terms in archaeology: dolmen, menhir)

  5. List of English words of Anglo-Saxon origin - Wikipedia

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    List of English words of Anglo-Saxon origin. Add languages. ... List of English words of Old English origin; ... that may have been made to the old page name.

  6. List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles

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    First reference gives the word as the local pronunciation of go out; the second as "A water-pipe under the ground. A sewer. A flood-gate, through which the marsh-water runs from the reens into the sea." Reen is a Somerset word, not used in the Fens. Gout appears to be cognate with the French égout, "sewer". Though the modern mind associates ...

  7. Anglo-saxon names - Wikipedia

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  8. Category:English masculine given names - Wikipedia

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    This category is for masculine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language masculine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.

  9. List of English words of Old Norse origin - Wikipedia

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    English provenance = c 1205 AD (as aȝe, an early form of the word resulting from the influence of Old Norse on an existing Anglo-Saxon form, eȝe) awesome From the same Norse root as "awe". [7] awful From the same Norse root as "awe". [8] awkward the first element is from Old Norse ǫfugr ("=turned-backward"), the '-ward' part is from Old ...