Loanwards and roman expansion in North‐West Europe

Abstract

In this article the author reviews the evidence which loanwords supply for the character of cultural contact in north‐west Europe during the Roman period. After some brief comments on the general position of borrowed vocabulary, Latin loanwords in British Celtic and in the Germanic dialects are discussed. Words borrowed by the Anglo‐Saxons from the Romans are also considered. Loanwords passing in the opposite direction, from Germanic and Celtic into Latin, are examined in their historical context. Attention is drawn throughout to the value of language as an independent source of information on economic, social, political and administrative conditions.

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