Outlines of the History of the English Language

9th century adjective Ælfric Alcuin Alfred Alfred's Battle of Maldon Bede belong Beowulf Boethius borrowed Britain Celtic Celts chapter character Chaucer Christianity Chronicle compared conjugation connected consonant correspondence Danes Danish declension denote dialect earlier early element England English declensions English words Euphuism foreign words French genitive German given glosses Gothic grammar grammatical forms Greek Icelandic illustrated inflections influence instance king kyng language later Latin material Layamon learning literature marked modern English native Norman Conquest noted noticed nouns Old English Old Saxon oldest English original Ormulum Orosius passage past tense plural poem poet poetical poetry preserved prose Roman says Scandinavian scheme scholars seen shew shewn sing speaking specimens strong verb style suggest taken Teutonic speech thou tion tongue traced translation verse vocabulary vowel West Saxon writers þæm þæt þat