для бакалавров 3 курса The origin of English Words Native words Native words, though they constitute only 30% of the English vocabulary, are the most frequently used words, they constitute 80% of the 500 most frequent words complied by Thorndyke & Longe ( The Teacher’s Wordbook of 30000 Words . New York, 1959). Native words are subdivided into two groups: Indo-European & Common Germanic. The oldest layer of words in English is words met in Indo-European languages. There are several semantic groups of them: # words denoting kinship: father (Vater, pater), mother (mutter, mater), son (Sohn, сын ), daughter (Tochter, дочь ) , # words denoting important objects & phenomena of nature: the sun (die Sohne, солнце ), water (Wasser, вода ), # names of animals & birds: cat (Kazte, кот ), goose (Gans, гусь ), wolf (Wolf, волк ), # names of parts of a human body: heart (Herz, сердце ), # some of the most often used verbs: sit (sitzen, сидеть ), stand (stehen, стоять ), # some...
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