词汇 | scandinavian words in english |
词源 | Scandinavian words in English. The Vikings, who conquered nearly half of England, the Danelagh, and were later absorbed into the population, contributed thousands of words to the En- glish language—at least 1,500 places in England have Scandina- vian names. Words that we owe to their northern Germanic language include: steak, knife, law, gain, birth, dirt, fellow, guess, leg, loan, seat, sister, slaughter, thrift, trust, want, window, flat, ill, loose, low, odd, tight, weak, call, die, egg, get, lift, rid, same, scare, though, till, both, husband, skin, hit, happy, rotten, ugly, wrong, and fell. |
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