List of English Latinates of Germanic origin information
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Many words in the English lexicon are made up of Latinate words; that is, words which have entered the English language from a Romance language (usually Anglo-Norman), or were borrowed directly from Latin. 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]
Below is a list of Germanic words, names and affixes which have come into English via Latin or a Romance language.
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^Skeat, Principles of English etymology, pg. 244
^Wes Ulm, The Germanic Component of Old and Middle French: Frankish, Gothic, Burgundian and Their Contributions to the English Tongue, http://wesulm.bravehost.com/languages/english/franco_german.htm
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