spanish,french, english
Knowing english helped me a lot to understand things was I went to Netherlands and to Germany. The basic words are similar and the words assiciation seems to work the same way.
"Uit" in Netherlands motorways, I understood to be a cognate with "Out".
"Wasser" for "Water" in Germany.
In English the main problem with words of latin/french words is that they often don't have the same meaning than in the romance languages and are very few used in the oral/street language. I can understand much better an scientific, sociological text in English than the people in shops.
http://www.answers.com/topic/old-french
Frankish:
The Frankish language had a much larger impact on the vocabulary of Old French as a result of the Frankish conquest of much of the territory of modern France by the Franks during the time of the Volkerwanderung of the Germanic tribes. The current and older names of the language, français, derives from the name of the Franks. A number of other Germanic peoples, including the Burgundians, were active in the territory at that time; the Germanic languages spoken by the Franks, Burgundians, and others were not written languages, and at this remove it is often difficult to identify from which specific Germanic source a given Germanic word in French is derived. Philologists estimate that perhaps fifteen percent of the vocabulary of modern French derives from Germanic sources; this vocabulary includes a large number of common words like haïr, "to hate"; bateau, "boat", and hache, "axe", all derive from Germanic sources. It has been suggested that the passé composé and other compound verbs used in French conjugation are also the result of Germanic influences.
This is what I'm talking about.
"bateau, "boat", and hache, "axe", all derive from Germanic sources.
Old English is the Germanic source.
I don't see Dutch (as in Dutch loanword) mentioned in that copy and paste.
=>I don't see Dutch (as in Dutch loanword) mentioned in that copy and paste. <=
What do you think, is Dutch' direct ancestor? Or in other words, who are the modern Franks?
French does not have any dutch influences, iNpossible (grammEr from Sander our teacher).
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Who cares. All that matters is that "bateau" comes from OE.
Dutch is Dutch. The Franks weren't the Dutch of Netherlands.
Indeed, just like the French are French and not Latins.
Well it doesn't come from Dutch. PERIOD. OUT.
It does. Discussion closed.
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It doesn't. Discussion closed.
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Discussion is closed as yo wish, but it DOES NOT!
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