This results in some Germanic doublets, such as yard and garden, through Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman respectively. Those Germanic words listed below with a Frankish source mostly came into English through Anglo-Norman, and so despite ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic, came to English through a Romance language (and many have cognates in modern Romance languages). Some common examples are arm (from German) and pyjama (from. The meanings of these words do not always correspond to Germanic cognates, and occasionally the specific meaning in the list is unique to English. When we speak or write English, we frequently use words borrowed from other languages. 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. The dictionary Littr has 132,000 active words. According to the dictionary Larousse, French has a vocabulary of 59,000 words. The Oxford English contains over 200,000 words, with 171,476 active words and 47,156 inactive words. Get French translations of thousands of English words and example sentences from the Password EnglishFrench Dictionary. The correspondence is semanticin most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. English is one of the most populous languages in terms of dictionary entries. This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form.
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