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600 BCE
The Celts
Words like shirt, cabin, beer, league, birch, lark, salmon, cart, carpenter, spirit, and vassal. -
55 BCE
The romans
Words of pre-Roman origin still survive in our language, such as "mud", "cabin", "cerveza", "salmón", "carpintero", "rabbit", "dog", "lance" and "balsa", among others. These words survived, despite the fact that the Romans imposed Latin as the official language. -
450
The Anglo-saxons
Deem, demean, eat and flee -
800
The vikings
Eye, stone and hear. -
1066
The Normans
Duke, general, soldier, army, palace, law, cavalry, merchant, lamb, beef, and pork.