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Forum: Briefing Topic: etymological dictionary started by: sndjames564 Posted by sndjames564 on Oct. 11 2007,18:28
There are an estimated 750,000 words in the English language. Nearly half of these are of Germanic (or Teutonic) origin, and nearly half from the Romance languages (languages of Latin origin--such as French, Spanish, and Italian--or Latin itself). There also have been generous borrowings from other languages, including Greek, Dutch, Modern German, and Arabic. A good< etymological dictionary > serves as a guide to the origins of English words |