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 called Celtic Celts chapter character Chaucer Christianity Chronicle common compared conjugation connected consonant correspondence Danes Danish declension denote dialect earlier early 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 land language later Latin material Layamon learning literature marked modern English native Norman Conquest noticed nouns Old English Old Saxon oldest English original Ormulum Orosius passage past tense plural poem poet 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 Wessex West Saxon writers þæt þat