Latin contribution?

[Herb Stahlke]

There are certainly Roman Empire borrowings into Germanic, like
kitchen, pepper, mint, etc., but I don't know of any into British
Celtic before the fifth c. that survived the Germanic invasion.

Herb

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Alison Murie <sagehen7470 at att.net> wrote:
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> Didn't any Latin creep into the common language during the Roman
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