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Scandinavian influenced English considerably.

it can be seen in place names words


connected with sea robbing, law, Administration and everyday life.
A large number of places in England beer Scandinavian names more than 600
place names and end in by which means ‘farm or town’, roughly Derby and grimsby are
examples in this regard Scandinavian word thrope means village. Some 300 English
place names and end in Thorpe like althrope and linthorpe. in the Scandinavian the
thwaite means an isolated piece of land nearby 300 English place names end in thwaite
like applethwaite and lanthwaite. Again Scandinavian word toft means also a piece of
land. Around a 300 place ending in toft like nortoft and longtoft. According to AC Baugh
more than 1400 place names are counted in English.
Twenty four scandavian words appear in old English. The largest single group is
connected with sea roving the borrowed words are barda (beaked ship), lip (fleet)
batswegan (boatman) and so on.
A number of words relating to law and administration are Scandinavian. The word
law itself of Scandinavian origin. The words outlaw, mal (action at law), hold (freeholder)
husting (assembly) and so on belong to the Danse.
some translations of Scandinavian words come under this category. Examples of such
translations are landceap (tax paid when was bought), lahce ah (payment for re-entry into
lost legal rights), botteas (what cannot be compensated) and so on.
Many Scandinavian words entered English through give and take of everyday life.
There are nouns, adjectives, common words, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs and
conjunctions in them.
NOUNS:- Bank, birth, Boon, booth, egg, sweet, sister, skin, sky, and leg some nouns
borrowed from Scandinavian.
ADJECTIVE :- find, ill , lose, low, odd, rotten, rugged, light, and weak are some borrowed
adjectives.
COMMON VERB:- a good number of common verbs like call, slip, die, drop, get, give,
raise, read, take and thrive are some Scandinavian words.
PRONOUNS :- They, there and them are Scandinavian pronouns both are same, which
have Pronomial uses are of Scandinavian origin.
PREPOSITION:- Till and From are Scandinavian words.
ADVERBS:- the adverbs aloft, aye (ever), seemly, hepen (hence), and hwepen (whence)
are derived from the Scandinavian.
CONJUNCTION :- Though and ado are Scandinavian words.
PRESENT PLURAL:- are, the disjunctive possessives, mine and thine are also
Scandinavian.
The Scandinavian element in English is significant therefore, Jespherson rightly says ‘An
englishmen cannot thrive or be ill or die without a Scandinavian words they are to the
language what bread and eggs are to the daily food.’

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