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9. Adjectives: green, small, thin, old.
10. Verbs: to see, to say, to tell, to talk, to give.
So, the vocabulary of English and Ukrainian languages has
following layers:
1. All-Indo-European vocabulary. For example: англ.
a mother, four, to sit, a guest, an eye, a night, a salt,; укр. мати,
чотири, сидіти, гість, око, ніч, сіль.
2. Germanic element — in English; Slavonic — in
Ukrainian. For example: англ. an arm, a finger, a bear, a grass, a
frost, a spring, a land, a bench, a ship,to give; укр . вівчар,
мачуха, трава, палець, ведмідь, буря, відро, ніж, коровай,
пиво, диво, дума, варити, читати, розумний, солодкий.
3. The borrowed vocabulary. For example: англ. a
desire, to adore, gay, a channel, a chieftain (from French), to
admire, a phenomenon, plum, a wall (from Latin), a skin, a sky, to
screw, a skirt (from Scandinavian), a potato, a tomato (from
Spanish), a philosophy, linguistics, comedy, progress, primadonna
(from Greek), a masterpiece, a wonder child (from German), first
dancer, prima ballerina, an alarm, a piano(from Italian), a
collective farm, a five-year plan (from Russian); укр. повидло,
стъожка (from Polish), св1дом1стъ, фортуна (from Latin),
архангел, псалом (from Greek), штепселъ, ландшафт (from
German), авангард, десерт (from French), бюджет,
менеджмент (from English), валюта, фонтан (from Italian).
In order to have a better understanding of the problem, it will
be necessary to go through a brief survey of certain historical
periods (facts) of English and Firstly, some information about
English vocabulary. There are some periods in English origin:
1. The first century B. C. Most of the territory now
known to us as Europe was occupied by the Roman Empire. The
tribal languages contained only Indo-European and German
elements. Since this period in English appear words from Latin (a
butter, a cheese, a pea, a plant, a kitchen).

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