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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'.[citation needed] 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.".
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- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary subject Category:Archaic_English_words_and_phrases.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary subject Category:English_language.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary subject Category:Etymology.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary subject Category:Old_English_language.
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary comment "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.".
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary label "Changes to Old English vocabulary".
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary label "英語の語彙の変化 (古英語)".
- Changes_to_Old_English_vocabulary sameAs 英語の語彙の変化_(古英語).
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