Early Latin borrowings: utensils
Over the past few days, I’ve created two infographics on early Germanic loanwords from Latin: one on construction, with words such as kitchen and street, and one on food, with cheese, butter and others.
Today, I’m wrapping up the trilogy with an infographic on utensils. Fork, pan, sack, mint and chest – they were all borrowed into Proto-West Germanic, the ancestor of English, when the Romans controlled large parts of north-western Europe during the early first millennium AD.
How do we know these words were borrowed from Latin? You can read all about it in this article. And this article tells you three ways can you identify early borrowings from Latin.
















