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This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
A Middle Irish cognate is given when the Old Irish form is unknown, and Gaulish, Cornish and/or Breton (modern) cognates may occasionally be given in place of or in addition to Welsh. For the Baltic languages , Lithuanian (modern) and Old Prussian cognates are given when possible.
Whatmough considers Latin satteles "as one of our securest Etruscan loans in Latin." [24] scurrilous Serge (first name) serve the word serve derives from Latin servire ('to serve') and servus ('a slave'), which have sometimes been thought to derive from Etruscan. [25] However, a detailed analysis has preferred an Indo-European etymology for the ...
Many of these are Franco-German words, or French words of Germanic origin. [ 2 ] Below is a list of Germanic words, names and affixes which have come into English via Latin or a Romance language .
In the Middle Ages, the words de, borrowed from Latin and French, and the English of, were often used in names in England and Wales, as in "Simon de Montfort" and "Richard of Shrewsbury". The usage of "de" is often misunderstood, as in most cases it was used only in documents written in Latin or French.
In German, the word has a neutral connotation, e.g. Ersatzrad simply means "spare wheel" (not an inferior one). Flak , Fl ug a bwehr k anone , literally: air-defence cannon , for anti-aircraft artillery or their shells, also used in flak jacket ; or in the figurative sense: "drawing flak" = being heavily criticized
First, prefixes and suffixes, most of which are derived from ancient Greek or classical Latin, have a droppable vowel, usually -o-. As a general rule, this vowel almost always acts as a joint-stem to connect two consonantal roots (e.g. arthr- + -o- + -logy = arthrology ), but generally, the -o- is dropped when connecting to a vowel-stem (e.g ...
The Semitic letter Dāleth may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. [2] There are many different Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this. In Semitic, Ancient Greek [3] and Latin, [4] the letter represented /d/; in the Etruscan alphabet [5] the letter was archaic but still retained.