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