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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary abstract "Many words that existed in Old English did not survive into Modern English. There are also many words in Modern English that bear little or no resemblance in meaning to their Old English etymons. Some linguists estimate that as much as 80 percent of the lexicon of Old English was lost by the end of the Middle English period, including a large number of words formed by compounding, e.g. bōchūs ('bookhouse', 'library'), yet we still retain the component parts 'book' and 'house'. Certain categories of words seem to have been especially vulnerable. Nearly all words relating to sexual intercourse and sexual organs were supplanted by words of Latin or Ancient Greek origin. Many, if not most, of the words in Modern English that are used in polite conversation to describe body parts and bodily functions are of Latin or Greek origin. The words which were used in Old English for these same purposes are now mostly either extinct or considered crude or vulgar, such as arse/ass.Some words became extinct while other near-synonyms of Old English origin replaced them ('limb' survives, yet lið is gone or survives dialectally as lith). Many of these linguistic changes were brought on by the introduction of Old Norse and Norman French words, while others fell away due to the natural processes of language evolution.".
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageExternalLink bosworthtoller.com.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageExternalLink dictionary.oed.com.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageExternalLink compendiousanglo00boswrich.
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageRevisionID "691337830".
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Adelaide_(disambiguation).
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Alfred_the_Great.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Alliteration.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Anatomy.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Greek.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Anglo-Norman_language.
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Anus.
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Archaism.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Axilla.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Balds_Leechbook.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Bird_of_prey.
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Burbot.
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Cabbage.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Capra_(genus).
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Category:Archaic_English_words_and_phrases.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Category:English_language.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Category:Etymology.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Category:Old_English_language.
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Door.
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Dragon.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Duck.
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Topsell.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Eelpout.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Ember_days.
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Flour.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Gaius.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Germanic_languages.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Germanic_umlaut.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Hake.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Hen_harrier.
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Human_body.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Inkhorn_term.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Invasion.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Jay.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Joint.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Jonathan_Swift.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Joseph_Bosworth.
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Leontopodium_alpinum.
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Linguistic_purism_in_English.
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Number.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Odal_(rune).
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Old_English.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary wikiPageWikiLink Old_English_literature.