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2. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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   Bundt cake (from Bundkuchen; in German: a Gug (e)lhupf)—a ring cake. Delicatessen (German spelling: Delikatessen)—a speciality food retailer; fine foods. Dunkel (also Dunkles)—a dark beer. Emmentaler (also Emmental)—a yellow, medium-hard Swiss cheese that originated in the area around Emmental, Canton Bern.

3. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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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.

4. Latin influence in English - Wikipedia

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   Latin influence in English. Although English is a Germanic language, it has significant Latin influences. Its grammar and core vocabulary are inherited from Proto-Germanic, but a significant portion of the English vocabulary comes from Romance and Latinate sources. A portion of these borrowings come directly from Latin, or through one of the ...

5. List of English Latinates of Germanic origin - Wikipedia

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   Quite a few of these words can further trace their origins back to a Germanic source (usually Frankish [1]), making them cognate with many native English words from Old English, yielding etymological twins. Many of these are Franco-German words, or French words of Germanic origin. [2]

6. History of English - Wikipedia

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   e. English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...

7. English language - Wikipedia

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   Englishis a West Germanic languagein the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval Englandon the island of Great Britain. [4][5][6]The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoplesthat migrated to Britain.