Are you sure that's where "Schrift" is from? It's pretty close to "schreiben" or the Dutch word "schrijven"

Also "write" is native germanic while "schreiben" is latin

@@INF-pj5wp It is pretty well attested by linguists: the German, Dutch and Norse words borrowed the Latin word, scriptus. By the way, that word was also in Old English and overlives till this day , but used in an ecclesiastical way as the word 'shrive'. Which means to confess, or hear the confessions of...

Before the Napoleonic wars, German had a lot of influence from Latin and French. German nationalism emerged in 1871, the language was reformed and made it more "Germanic"

I could say just the same for english speakers. While german speakers keep the germanic word "Zum Beispiel", english speakers keep saying "For example". There are so many Latin words in english that English is nowadays much more a romance language than germanic, just my opinion.

There are more than a few.

@Your Mom's Creepy Uncle Also, Slavic languages are Satem languages, while Germanic and Italic languages are Centum languages, which means that a lot of consonants look very different even though they are indeed related. On top of that, Slavic languages have had their own weird changes which make things even more opaque. Here's an example : "eight" is related to "восемь" (vos'em') in Russian (I'm taking Russian because this is the Slavic language I know the most). How? PIE : *oḱtṓw -> Centum languages : *ḱ becomes a simple *k --> Proto-Germanic : *ahtō, *k -> *h because of Grimm's law ---> Old English : eahta ----> English : eight -> Satem languages : *ḱ becomes a fricative, like *s or something resembling the English "sh", depending on the language --> Proto-Balto-Slavic : *aśtō ---> Proto-Slavic : *osmь, apparently by analogy with *òsmъ "eighth" (from Proto-Balto-Slavic *aśmas), and from what I understand, ordinal numbers in Proto-Slavic tended to end with *ъ and cardinal numbers tended to end with *ь, so this can be explained by some big rearrangement of the way the numbers worked to make them more consistent and regular... for what I can tell, at least, I'm not that familiar with Slavic historical linguistics; I'll need to dig deeper than the quick search I'm doing for this comment ----> Russian : восемь (vos'em'), I'm guessing something like o -> wo -> vo happened, but I'm unsure (again, I'm not that familiar with Slavic historical linguistics) But not all Slavic words are that wild. Some are much more straightforward, like English "snow" and Russian "снег" ("sn'eg"), or English "water" and Russian "вода" ("voda"), etc. While trying to find other words I know in Russian that could be related to English and/or Latin words, I decided to look for the origins of "окно" ("okno"), and found it's a word related to "око" ("oko"), which is apparently a dated or poetic word for "eye", although cognates in other Slavic languages are apparently still in daily use. Anyway, the link between "око" and "oculus" in Latin is pretty clear. The English word is also related, but it's not as transparent (Old English "ēage", from Proto-Germanic *augô, with k -> g through Verner's law) But there are words that are transparent in all three languages, like English "three", Latin "trēs", Russian "три" ("tri") I'll stop here, otherwise this comment will be way too long; it's already longer than it should be

It's Andy

she is the channel creator, people call her andy

Her name is Andy Ilovelanguages as far as I know.

Exactly!

I can speak fluent Portuguese and there is the word ,,estrada'' meaning path/road. Cognates Italian "strada". And neither of those languages borrowed that word from Germanic

A lot of the etymologies given are reconstructed, Proto-Germanic. There are more recent attestations in Old English and Middle English that are almost identical to now. Many of these Latinate words are borrowed directly from Latin very recently. Proto-Germanic aims to be root of ALL Germanic languages.

Well most of the Germanic words were taken from reconstructed Proto Germanic, which is from a earlier period afaik than classical Latin. The Anglo-Saxons didn't speak Proto-Germanic

@@skyworm8006 so, did they speak west germanic?

@@skyworm8006 Even Anglo-Saxon English is mutually unintelligible with modern English. This I attribute to the common, organic usage of the language by everyday people, whereas the Latin (but more frequently, French) borrowings were used more by academics and ruling classes, being written down and standardized. Even the bible wasn't published in English until the 1500s.

the romance words were often borrowed directly from latin which was the only language written down for a long time while for the germanic words there was only the spoken word

The word "love" has the same root word as the Latin word "libido" and that weirds me out 😂

@@frankz3140 Fun fact tho, in Spanish "Amor" comes from latin "A+mors" it literally means "To live without death"

What a surprise

I recognise some Spanish in the Latin one.

No shit Sherlock!

Surprised pikachuface

haha guys, you are so kind for real....

Spanish is a daughter language of latin, thats why they are very similar

It was borrowed in at the Proto-Germanic stage, but yes, ultimately Latin origin.

alot latin words are from greek origin, so they arent latin words?

I think that it's because, a while after English started borrowing a crazy amount of french words, compound words stopped being as productive, so we had to use multi-word phrases where other languages might have coined new words (in other languages we might be able to combine "tear down" to make a new word "downtear" or something, but in modern english it's more awkward unless it's long established), and after it became common to do it for normal cases, it also became normal to do it when unnecessary, especially when it replaces a long word.

I think you mean phrasal verbs, not idioms. But i don't really know either why they use so many of them

Those aren't idioms.

I never thought about it, but to add to your examples. "I aint been dropping no eaves sir!" Its probably from a long history of literature and cultures adding into it. The bible is full of idioms, Shakespeare probably added to it as well.

You mean phrasal verbs, they are an entire category of their own

Latinate: Frigid object!

Frigid matter!

Lot of them

They come from two different Latin words: cado and caedo.

It's fun; I've been learning Latin for about 3 years. A little challenging because of the grammar and syntax, yet not too difficult due to the large corpus of shared vocabulary. Not to mention very worthwhile.

@@thegrassguy2871 cool

It is difficult, even for those of us who speak Romance languages ... Although speaking English, Spanish, French or Italian is an advantage .. it will identify a lot of vocabulary

In general I'd think more difficulty. Mainly because a large portion of English sentence building words are germanic in origin.

in the past british latin exist, but was extinc very fast.

Just remove the west germanic words and turn them into latin english and then you'll see

96 of the 100 most common words in english are germanic in origin, it would be impossible without a huge amount of new words and really wouldn't resemble english anymore. there isn't even a word for "and" with a latin origin in english for example