Etymology

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Across
  1. 2. The influence of other languages on English through contact or conquest
  2. 3. The oldest historical form of the English language
  3. 8. The group of languages that English originally belongs to
  4. 9. The study of the origin and history of words
Down
  1. 1. The vocabulary that makes up the basic, most common words in English
  2. 2. A word that looks and means the same in many languages
  3. 4. The part of vocabulary that comes from the earliest period of English
  4. 5. The process by which borrowed words become natural in English
  5. 6. Words taken from other languages
  6. 7. The process of changing pronunciation to fit English sounds