Danish Modern
Posted in Home Treasures on 10/04/2010 07:57 am by staff
How many words in modern English are of Scandinavian origin?
This is something that has been eating at me since moving to Denmark and learning Danish. Any ideas?
You have noticed two different types of words - words that resemble English words because they share an ancestor common in the proto-Germanic (words like "Hand", "Come," "give", etc.) and words that were actually taken in either English Danish or another (words like "ski", "album", "skirt", "egg" etc.) The number of words that share a common ancestor is quite large as the Germanic languages are closely related, but during the Middle Ages had a pile of words were taken into English of the Scandinavian languages. I have no exact number, but I guess about 1-2% of English vocabulary is of Scandinavian origin.
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