[tied] Re: Celtic/Germanic

Someone write:-

> After all, English has considerable Latin influence: more than
> German, but less than Dutch?

--- In cybalist@..., Max Dashu <maxdashu@...> wrote:
> Yes, but via French, not from archaic Brittono-Roman speakers.

And also in recent centuries directly from Latin and Ancient Greek via
learned people and classicalism. By the same route, Sanskritisams get
into modern Indian languages without going through the usual phonetic
changes as if they had come down the centuries in the usual way.