Ruediger T. answered • 08/14/21
Language expert - German, English, French - 30 years experience
Since your 'question' is actually a statement, I'm just going to guess what it might have been: Why is English considered a Germanic language when a much larger part of it's vocabulary is derived from Romance origins (mainly French and Latin)? The Germanic influence came through the migration of Germanic peoples - Angles and Saxons - to the British Islands. The influence of their language is today seen mainly in the shorter and more common every-day words (simple tools, objects in the house etc) and in some grammatical features such as the so-called strong verbs, i.e. verbs with irregular forms marked by stem vowel shifts like sing sang sung (German singen sang gesungen) or bring brought brought (German bringen brachte gebracht). Romance influence came a few hundred years after that with the Norman invasion and left an influence in the sphere of law (French loi) and government (French gouvernement). Later yet, more Latin influence arrived through the renaissance and the age of science - hence the fact that many English words of Latin origin tend to be longer and often more abstract or technical and scientific.
