Norman Invasion Flashcards
___ of Anglo-Saxon vocabulary is in Modern English
1/5; personal pronouns and numerals, father, mother, brother, sister, wife, child, meat, eat, sleep, and live
Old English was almost entirely ____, but by ____, other languages, including ____, made their mark
Germanic, Latin of the church and Scandinavian and French languages of traders and pirates
Normans
Danes who settled in France at same time as relatives invaded Britain
The Normans traded and intermarried with?
English
The Normans spoke a dialect of?
Old French and intermarried with French people
Normans were ___ in blood, character, and temperament
Scandinavian
Norman invasion of Britain
A.D. 1066
The Norman invasion was led by?
Willian the conqueror-motivated by desire for land
The Normans did not force Saxons into far corners of land as Anglo-Saxons had to the Britons
They simply took over, placing their own countrymen in powerful positions in church and state
Through their influence, Norman French words were introduced in?
English and the French chivalric tradition influenced English literature
French became language of the _____ for the next 300 years while _____ was spoken by common people
English court, Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon had begun to lose its inflections before?
Norman invasion
Norman influenced ____ the change from synthetic to analytic language
Accelerated
_____ Norman French words were added to the English language
10,000
___ of the 10,000 Norman French words added to English are?
3/4, still in use
French borrowings may have been indirectly responsible for a simultaneous increase in?
Latin loan words
Old French had evolved from ___ and the two languages were ___ but the types of borrowings were ___
Latin, similar, different
Norman loan words were:?
Law, government, church, military, fashion, and art
Latin borrowings were largely?
Literary
Latin loan words:?
Genius, lucrative, contempt, distract, testify, and ulcer; most too abstract and sophisticated for common use
