Краткий курс лекций по лексикологии английского языка для студентов неязыковых вузов. Москалёва Е.В. - 33 стр.

                CLASSIFICATION OF BORROWINGS ACCORDING TO
            THE LANGUAGE FROM WHICH THEY WERE BORROWED.

                  ROMANIC BORROWING.
                  Latin borrowings.
                  Among words of Romanic origin borrowed from Latin
            during the period when the British Isles were a part of the Roman
            Empire, there are such words as: street, port, wall etc. many Latin
            and Greek words came into English during the Adoption of
            Christianity in the 6-th century. At this time the Latin alphabet
            was borrowed which ousted the Runic alphabet. These
            borrowings are usually called classical borrowings. Here belong
            Latin words: alter, cross, dean and Greek words: church, angel,
            devil, anthem.
                  Latin and Greek borrowings appeared in English during the
            Middle English period due to the Great Revival of Learning.
            These are mostly scientific words because Latin was the language
            of science at the time. These words were not used as frequently as
            the words of the Old English period, therefore some of them were
            partly assimilated grammatically, e.g. formula-formulae. Here
            also belong such words as: memorandum, minimum, maximum,
            veto, etc.
                  Classical borrowings continue to appear in Modern English
            as well. Mostly they are words formed with the help of Latin and
            Greek morphemes. There are quite a lot of them in medicine
            (appendicitis, aspirin), in chemistry (acid, valency, alkali), in
            technique (engine, antenna, biplane, airdrome), in politics
            (socialism, militarism), names of sciences (zoology,
            lexicography).
                  French borrowings.
                  The influence of French on the English spelling.
                  The largest group of borrowings are French borrowings.
            Most of them came into English during the Norman conquest.
            French influenced not only the vocabulary of English but also its
            spelling, because documents were written by French scribes as the
            local population was mainly illiterate, and the ruling class was

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