Example of borrowing words

Origin and meaning of family

In the fifteenth century, the word family came to English. The Latin word famulus
is its root, "servant." Our modern word "household" — an human community
living under a single roof including blood ties and servants, had their first sense in
English. Their usage was still common in the eighteenth century ("taken into one
family" may mean the person in question was employed as a servant). It could
also be just about a group of household servants. It soon became a traditional
ancestor, a home, as we might still claim "Windsor building" today for the entire
family of the present British royal family. It was also named the "Windsor home."
It can also identify an even greater category of a whole individual who was
thought to have inherited similarly from a common ancestor. The family already
had these connotations when the accepted Bible edition was written in 1611. In
some cases the word was used as a tribe in this work. In Genesis for instance we
have "These were divided into their countries by the isles of the Gentiles; each
according to his language, according to his or her families, in their nations." The
approved version had to use "near kin" if it wanted to refer to our current
understanding of the relationship between children and parents. The transition of
family sense between the households and the "near kin" appears to have arisen
slowly over the 17th and 18th centuries and not until the beginning of the 19th
century. The move was due to the social development of the household in the UK,
where servants came to be treated as a separate, distinct community.
The early family history can be understood by looking at the associated common
term, indicating that someone was a family member, a close associate or a
servant. There once were a pair of words (which contributed to this odd, familiar
"satan") that retained this concept of a servant-relation, the known angel and the
familiar devil. "A demon or evil spirit will come if called." There is no blood link to
our living sense of familiarity.