What words does English have more? Romance or Germanic? [duplicate]
Solution 1:
Wikipedia gives the results of one study given on sources of words in the English lexicon:
According to one study, the percentage[s] of modern English words derived from each language group are as follows:
- Latin (including words used only in scientific / medical / legal contexts): ~29%
- French (Latin): ~29%
- Germanic: ~26%
- Others: ~16%
Other surveys, by Thomas Finkenstaedt & Dieter Wolff (1973), and Joseph M. Williams in 'Origins of the English Language' are in broad agreement.
So Germanic origin is not the main source.