Learning. These are for the most part scientific words. These words were not used as often as the words of the Old English period, therefore some of them were partly assimilated grammatically, e. g. Here also belong such formula - formulae. words as: etc. memorandum, minimum, maximum, veto, Classical borrowings continue to come in Modern English as well. Mainly they are words formed by means of Latin and Greek morphemes. There are many of them in medicine (appendicitis, in chemistry (acid, in aspirin), valency, alkali), technique (engine, in politics antenna, biplane, airdrome), (socialism, names of sciences (zoology, militarism), physics). In philology most of terms are of Greek origin (homonym, archaism, lexicography). French borrowings. The largest group of borrowings are French borrowings. Most of them appeared in English at the time of the Norman Conquest. French effected not only the vocabulary of English but also its spelling, because documents were written by French scribes as the local population was chiefly illiterate, and the ruling class was French. There are the following semantic groups of French borrowings: a) words relating to government: administer, empire, state, government; b) words relating to military affairs: army, war, banner, c) words relating to jury: soldier, battle; advocate, petition, d) words relating to fashion: inquest, sentence, barrister; e) words relating luxury, coat, collar, lace, pleat, embroidery; to jewelry: f) words relating to topaz, emerald, ruby, pearl; food and cooking: lunch, dinner, appetite, to roast, to stew. Words were borrowed from French into English after 1650, mostly through French literature, but they were not as numerous and many of them are not completely assimilated. There are the following semantic groups of these borrowings: a) words relating to literature and music: belle-lettres, b) words conservatorie, brochure, nuance, piruette, vaudeville; relating to military affairs: corps, echelon, fuselage, manouvre;
Learning. These are for the most part scientific words. These words were not used as often as the words of the Old English period, therefore some of them were partly assimilated grammatically, e. g. formula - formulae. Here also belong such words as: memorandum, minimum, maximum, veto, etc. Classical borrowings continue to come in Modern English as well. Mainly they are words formed by means of Latin and Greek morphemes. There are many of them in medicine (appendicitis, aspirin), in chemistry (acid, valency, alkali), in technique (engine, antenna, biplane, airdrome), in politics (socialism, militarism), names of sciences (zoology, physics). In philology most of terms are of Greek origin (homonym, archaism, lexicography). French borrowings. The largest group of borrowings are French borrowings. Most of them appeared in English at the time of the Norman Conquest. French effected not only the vocabulary of English but also its spelling, because documents were written by French scribes as the local population was chiefly illiterate, and the ruling class was French. There are the following semantic groups of French borrowings: a) words relating to government: administer, empire, state, government; b) words relating to military affairs: army, war, banner, soldier, battle; c) words relating to jury: advocate, petition, inquest, sentence, barrister; d) words relating to fashion: luxury, coat, collar, lace, pleat, embroidery; e) words relating to jewelry: topaz, emerald, ruby, pearl; f) words relating to food and cooking: lunch, dinner, appetite, to roast, to stew. Words were borrowed from French into English after 1650, mostly through French literature, but they were not as numerous and many of them are not completely assimilated. There are the following semantic groups of these borrowings: a) words relating to literature and music: belle-lettres, conservatorie, brochure, nuance, piruette, vaudeville; b) words relating to military affairs: corps, echelon, fuselage, manouvre;