英語の語彙の変化 (古英語)
1. Changes to Old English vocabularyMany words that existed in Old English did not survive into Modern English. There are also many words in Modern English that bear little or no resemblance in meaning to their Old English etymons. Some linguists estimate that as much as 80 percent of the lexicon of Old English was lost by the end of the Middle English period (—this percentage includes a large number of words formed by compounding, e.g. bōchūs = "bookhouse", or "library"; yet we still retain the component parts book and house).
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