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== English word origin == | == English word origin == | ||
[[Image:Old norse, ca 900.svg|right|350px|thumb| | |||
The approximate extent of Old Norse and related languages in the early 10th century:<br> | |||
<span style="color:#fff; background:#ff0000>Old West Norse dialect</span><br> | |||
<span style="color:#fff; background:#ff9933>Old East Norse dialect</span><br> | |||
<span style="color:#fff; background:#ff00ff>Old Gutnish dialect</span><br> | |||
<span style="color:#000; background:#ffff00>Old English</span><br> | |||
<span style="color:#fff; background:#0000ff>Crimean Gothic</span><br> | |||
<span style="color:#fff; #00ff00>Other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility</span>]] | |||
==== Angles / Anglo-Saxon ==== | ==== Angles / Anglo-Saxon ==== | ||
* from the Angles, a Germanic peoples who migrated to the British Islands in the 400s-600s AD. | * from the Angles, a Germanic peoples who migrated to the British Islands in the 400s-600s AD. | ||