How much do you know about English words ?

How much do you know about English words ?

The origins of words

Many words in the English language were brought over by the various invaders who came to the country in the past .

The Celts	The Romans	The Anglo Saxons	Scandinavians	The Normans
1^st millennium BC	55-54/43AD	450 A.D	1017A.D	1066 A.D

1. Use your knowledge of Latin , German and French to classify the following English nouns into 3 categories according to their origins:

Street, game , wine, beef ,cheese, night, wardrobe, dish, butcher, light, mount, veal ,queen ,kitchen, house, hand, school, wall, mutton .

Latin	German	French
School scuola Kitchen Cucina Wine vinum Street Strata (strada) Dish discus Mount montare Wall vallum (rempart)	Night Nacht Street Strasse Cheese Kase Light Licht House Haus Game old Saxon , Frisian Queen Gwen proto germanique Hand hand Wall Wand	Veal veau Mutton mouton Beef boeuf Wardrobe garderobe Butcher boucher Mount monter

2. Match the words of Norman origin with the appropriate Anglo-Saxon words .

Norman : 1. Summit 2. Intelligent 3. Desire 4. Homicide 5. Strange 6. Calm 7. Seize 8. Spectacle

Anglo- Saxon : a) a manslaughter b) wish c) quiet d) grab e) top f) sight g) queer h) clever .

1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.	8.
e	h	b	a	g	c	d	f