How many words in the modern English language are Scandinavian in origin?
This is something that has been eating at me since moving to Denmark and learning Danish. Any ideas?
You have noticed two different kinds of words–words that look like English words because they share a common ancestry in Proto-Germanic (words such as “hand”, “come”, “give”, etc.) and words that were actually borrowed into either English or Danish from the other (words such as “ski”, “disk”, “skirt”, “egg”, etc.). The number of words that share a common ancestry is quite large since the Germanic languages are closely related to each other, but during the early Middle Ages there were a lot of words that were borrowed into English from Scandinavian languages. I don’t have an exact number, but I’ll guess about 1-2% of the English vocabulary is Scandinavian in origin.
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