_Resemble_ Braas, _Swed._
Eldin _Firing_ Eld, _Dan._
Force _Waterfall_ Fors, _D. Swed._
Gar _Make_ Goera, _Swed._
Gill _Ravine_ Gil, _Iceland._
Greet _Weep_ Grata, _Iceland._
Ket _Carrion_ Kioed--flesh, _Dan._
Lait _Seek_ Lede, _Dan._
Lathe _Barn_ Lade, _Dan._
Lile _Little_ Lille, _Dan._
s. 74. _Roman of the second period._--Of the Latin introduced under the
Christianised Saxon sovereigns, many words are extant. They relate chiefly
to ecclesiastical matters, just as the Latin of the Celtic period bore upon
military affairs. _Mynster_, a minster, _monasterium_; _portic_, a porch,
_porticus_; _cluster_, a cloister, _claustrum_; _munuc_, a monk,
_monachus_; _bisceop_, a bishop, _episcopus_; _arcebisceop_, archbishop,
_archiepiscopus_; _sanct_, a saint, _sanctus_; _profost_, a provost,
_propositus_; _pall_, a pall, _pallium_; _calic_, a chalice, _calix_;
_candel_, a candle, _candela_; _psalter_, a psalter, _psalterium_;
_maesse_, a mass, _missa_; _pistel_, an epistle, _epistola_; _praedic-ian_,
to preach, _praedicare_; _prof-ian_, to prove, _probare_.
The following are the names of foreign plants and animals:--_camell_, a
camel, _camelus_; _ylp_, elephant, _elephas_; _ficbeam_, fig-tree, _ficus_;
_feferfuge_, feverfew, _febrifuga_; _peterselige_, parsley, _petroselinum_.
Others are the names of articles of foreign origin, as _pipor_, pepper,
_piper_; _purpur_, purple, _purpura_; _pumicstan_, pumicestone, _pumex_.
This is the Latin of the second, or Saxon period.
s. 75. _The Anglo-Norman element._--For practical purposes we may say that
the French or Anglo-Norman element appeared in our language after the
battle of Hastings, A.D. 1066.
Previous, however, to that period we find notices of intercourse between
the two countries.
1. The residence in England of Louis Outremer.
2. Ethelred II. married Emma, daughter of Richard Duke of Normandy, and the
two children were sent to Normandy for education.
3. Edward the Confessor is particularly stated to have encouraged French
manners and the French language in England.
4. Ingulphus of Croydon speaks of his own knowledge of French.
5. Harold passed some time in Normandy.
6. The F
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