The history of English

By Juliàescamarlà
  • The Celts
    600 BCE

    The Celts

    Words like shirt, cabin, beer, league, birch, lark, salmon, cart, carpenter, spirit, and vassal.
  • The romans
    55 BCE

    The romans

    Words of pre-Roman origin still survive in our language, such as "mud", "cabin", "cerveza", "salmón", "carpintero", "rabbit", "dog", "lance" and "balsa", among others. These words survived, despite the fact that the Romans imposed Latin as the official language.
  • The Anglo-saxons
    450

    The Anglo-saxons

    Deem, demean, eat and flee
  • The vikings
    800

    The vikings

    Eye, stone and hear.
  • The Normans
    1066

    The Normans

    Duke, general, soldier, army, palace, law, cavalry, merchant, lamb, beef, and pork.