SOURCES OF THE LANGUAGE.
Some years ago, a gentleman, after carefully examining the folio edition of Johnson’s Dictionary, formed the following table of English words derived from other languages:—
| Latin | 6,732 |
| French | 4,812 |
| Saxon | 1,665 |
| Greek | 1,148 |
| Dutch | 691 |
| Italian | 211 |
| German | 116 |
| Welsh | 95 |
| Danish | 75 |
| Spanish | 56 |
| Icelandic | 50 |
| Swedish | 34 |
| Gothic | 31 |
| Hebrew | 16 |
| Teutonic | 15 |
| Arabic | 13 |
| Irish | 6 |
| Runic | 4 |
| Flemish | 4 |
| Erse | 4 |
| Syriac | 3 |
| Scottish | 3 |
| Irish and Erse | 2 |
| Turkish | 2 |
| Irish and Scottish | 1 |
| Portuguese | 1 |
| Persian | 1 |
| Frisi | 1 |
| Persic | 1 |
| Uncertain | 1 |
| Total | 15,784 |