Sentences with phrase «germanic language»

So they took over almost all of what is now England, and their Germanic language Anglo - Saxon (or Old English) won the day as well.
Don't ask what your spirit animal is or if they can speak in their native tongue, unless you're ready to read a tarot deck and can speak that Germanic language your ancestors left behind two hundred years ago.
And English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo - Frisian dialects brought to Britainin the mid 5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo - Saxon settlers from what is now northwest Germany, west Denmark and the Netherlands, displacing the Celtic languages that previously predominated.
The name GOD is 6th century Germanic language: Prior to that they used names like Jehovah, YAWEH, Hasheim.
The belief in multiple GODs (the word GOD is taken from the 6th century CE Germanic language) was widely accepted and only varied by type (and special abilities) depending the region you lived in.
Christian missionaries lumped all of these people together under the umbrella term «pagan,» said Philip Shaw, who researches early Germanic languages and Old English at Leicester University in the U.K..
Other Germanic languages outside of English have separate words — in German, for example, «Fett» is the noun fat, while «dick» (yes, really) is the adjective fat.
Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm of fairy tale fame, used the comparative method to show how Germanic languages developed from a common ancestor.
Chronicles of Mercury sightings show up in Mesopotamia (November 15 in 265 B.C.) and China (June 9 in A.D. 118), and linguistic evidence in Germanic languages links the planet with the deity Woden, also known in Scandinavian languages as Odin.
Similar words existed in several archaic Germanic languages, though some sources suggest it's akin to the Greek word for spongy: somphos.
Again, the Greeks retain their original name, Γή (Ge or Yi); the Germanic languages, including English, use a variation of an ancient Germanic word ertho, «ground,» as can be seen in the English Earth, the German Erde, the Dutch Aarde, and the Scandinavian Jorde.
In 1965 Coetzee entered the graduate school of the University of Texas at Austin, and in 1968 graduated with a PhD in English, linguistics, and Germanic languages.
The English language borrows from French, Latin and Germanic languages and presents its own challenges as a clearly dominant system.
A teacher of German not only has the responsibility of successfully conveying the basics of the language to the student but also assess the influences on the language, its origins and its relations to other Germanic languages.

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The roots of its grammar are Germanic, but its vocabulary comes mostly from Romance languages.
Certainly English encompasses as many influences as any language in the world, compounded as it is of Germanic and romance languages, Latin and Greek, with borrowings from almost every tongue.
They were, quite simply, ancestors of people speaking modern Indo - European languages» English, Greek, Celtic, the Germanic, Romance, and Slavic groups, and the groups of Iran, Pakistan, and Northern India.
The centuries of isolation and all those wars between the Germanic tribes to the north and Latins on the south have left the place with a language all its own, called Ladin, and a people who are quietly proud to belong to the valley, not the country.
Included are some common Romance, Germanic and North Indian languages that are all part of the great Indo - European group of languages.
From my supprosings of Neanderthals talking mostly about dead animal, «Zug Zug, thag like meat good,» to the eventual emergence of Indo - European and Semetic languages, branching into Altaic, Germanic, AfroAsiatic, and others.
In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language from its modest beginnings around 500 A.D. as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language.
Why did the Latin - derived Romance languages survive in Western Europe even after the Germanic - speaking hordes laid claim to the territory in the fifth century, while Latin made no headway in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean?
The 1980s interviews are a window into an era... One of the advantages of reading interviews sequentially is that the particularities of language employed by the artists are highlighted by difference... When [Joseph] Beuys's English slips a little -LSB-...], the loss of the original sound is irrelevant as his unmistakeably hypnotic Germanic tones rise through the transcripts.
A few outer areas of the country stayed free of Germanic dominance (as they had of Roman rule also), and their Celtic languages survived.
Past history speaks about the evolutionary changes influencing our language from the Germanic, Latinate / Romance, Norman and French cultures.
For example, the D class for History is organized into subclasses by region or country, and likewise the P class for Language and Literature, from PA (Greek and Latin) through PT (Germanic and Norse languages).
English, for example, is not a language isolate because it is a Germanic family language.
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