west germanic in English
Today, Germanic languages and peoples fall into two groups: North Germanic or Scandinavian (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faeroese), and West Germanic (German, English, and Frisian).
Early Anglo-Saxon is a conservative West Germanic tongue, showing so little in the way of Celtic or Latin influence that a prolonged period of mass bilingualism is out of the question.
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1. Afrikaans Afrikaans is a Low Franconian West Germanic language descended from Dutch and spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia
2. A collection of useful phrases in Afrikaans, a West Germanic language descended from Dutch and spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia
3. Borrowed from German Angst, going back to Middle High German angest, going back to Old High German Angust "distress, worry, anxiety," going back to West Germanic *Angusti-(whence also Old …
4. Old English bróm is from a common West Germanic *bráma- (Old High German brâmo, "bramble"), from a Germanic stem bræ̂m- from Proto-Indo-European *bh(e)rem- "to project; a point", with an original sense of "thorny shrub" or similar.
5. Beestings (n.) "colostrum," late Old English bysting, from beost "first milk of a cow after calving," a general West Germanic word (cognates: Old High German biost, German Biest, Middle Dutch and Dutch biest, North Frisian bjast) of unknown origin.
6. But (adv., prep.) Old English Butan, Buton "unless; with the exception of; without, outside," from West Germanic *be-utan, a compound of *be-"by" (see by) + *utana "out, outside; from without," from ut "out" (see out (adv.))
7. Climb (v.) Old English Climban "raise oneself using hands and feet; rise gradually, ascend; make an ascent of" (past tense clamb, past participle clumben, clumbe), from West Germanic *klimban "go up by clinging" (source also of Dutch klimmen, Old High German klimban, German klimmen "to Climb").
8. Begin (v.) Old English Beginnan "to attempt, undertake," a rare word beside the more usual form onginnan (class III strong verb; past tense ongann, past participle ongunnen); from be-+ West Germanic *ginnan, which is of obscure etymology and found only in compounds, perhaps "to open, open up" (compare Old High German in-ginnan "to cut open, open up," also "Begin, undertake"), with sense
9. Bucket (n.) "pail or open vessel for drawing and carrying water and other liquids," mid-13c., from Anglo-French buquet "Bucket, pail," from Old French buquet "Bucket," which is from Frankish or some other Germanic source, or a diminutive of cognate Old English buc "pitcher, bulging vessel," originally "belly" (Buckets were formerly of leather as well as wood), both from West Germanic *buh
10. Bosom (n.) Old English bosm "breast; womb; surface; ship's hold," from West Germanic *bōsmaz (source also of Old Frisian bosm, Old Saxon Bosom, Middle Dutch boesem, Dutch boezem, Old High German buosam, German Busen "Bosom, breast"), perhaps from PIE root *bhou-"to grow, swell," or *bhaghus "arm" (in which case the primary notion would be "enclosure formed by the breast and the arms"), or
11. The buckle bears a runic inscription on its front, incised after its manufacture: aigil andi aïlrun iltahu (or elahu) gasokun Linguistic analysis of the inscription reveals that it was composed in early Old High German and is thus considered the oldest preserved line of alliterative verse in any West Germanic languages (while the Golden horns of Gallehus inscription, roughly one century older, is considered the oldest example of a North Germanic metrical line).
12. Belief (n.) late 12c., bileave, "confidence reposed in a person or thing; faith in a religion," replacing Old English geleafa "Belief, faith," from West Germanic *ga-laubon "to hold dear, esteem, trust" (source also of Old Saxon gilobo, Middle Dutch gelove, Old High German giloubo, German Glaube), from *galaub-"dear, esteemed," from intensive prefix *ga-+ PIE root *leubh-"to care, desire, love."