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by sndjames564
13-10-2007 17:55
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Topic: etymological dictionary
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etymological dictionary

There are an estimated 750,000 words in the English language. Nearly half of these are of Germanic (or Teutonic) origin, and nearly half from the Romance languages (languages of Latin origin--such as French, Spanish, and Italian--or Latin itself). There also have been generous borrowings from other ...