write a note on the foreign influences on old English
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The second great influence exerted English is Latin. Latin was not the language of a conquered people. It was the language of a higher civilization, a civilization from which the Anglo-Saxons had much to learn. It began long before the Anglo-Saxon came to England and continued throughout the Old English period. For several hundred years, while the Germanic tribes later became the English were still occupying their continental homes, they had various relations with the Romans through they acquired a considerable number of Latin words. This new cultural influence resulted in a really extensive adoption of Latin elements into the language. From the introduction of Christianity in 597 to close of the Old English a stretch of over five hundred years. The Latin words must have been making their way gradually into the English language. It is likely that the first wave of religion feeling which resulted from the missionary zeal of the seventh century, which is reflected in intense activity in church building and the establishing of monasteries during this century. But it would be a mistake to think that the enrichment of the vocabulary which now took place occurred overnight. Some words came in almost immediately, other only at the end of this period. It is easy to divide the Latin borrowings of the second period into two groups different in character. The one group represents words whose phonetic from shows that they were borrowed early and whose early adoption, and they had found their way into literature. The other contains words of a more learned character first recorded in the tenth and eleventh centuries and owing their introduction clearly to the religious.
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