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2. The fifth century A.D. several of Germanic tribes
(Angles, Saxons and Jutes) migrated across the sea now known as
the English Channel to the British Isles. They were controlled by
Celts. Since this period in English words from Celtic (a cradle, a
river, a water), from Latin (a street, a wall) appear.
3. The seventh century A.D. This century was
significant for the christianization of England. Latin was the
official language of the Christian Church. It is a period of the Latin
borrowings (a priest, a bishop, a scholar, a magister).
4. From the end of the 8th c. to the middle of the 11th
c. England underwent several Scandinavian invasions, which
inevitably left their traces on the English vocabulary (to die, to
cast, a law, a husband, a ski (all combinations with sk-), weak,
loose).
5. 1066. It is Empire of Norman Conquest. The epoch
can well be called eventful not only in national, social, political
and human terms, but also in linguistic terms. England became a
bilingual country. There are a lot of French borrowings in this
period (a goverment, a power, a court, a judge, an army, an
enemy, a science, a pen, an autumn, a dinner, a plate).
6. The Renaissance period. Since this period once
more a lot of borrowings from Latin and Greek (major, intellegent,
to elect, to create, a datum, a music, an atom, an esthete), Parisian
dialect of French (a police, a scene, a machine, a technique).
The historical survey is far from complete.
Due to the historical facts of Ukrainian origin, we would
present some of them:
1. Prehistorical period (near 7th— 6h cc. B.C.). There
are a lot of words from Indo-European vocabulary (жінка, ворог,
моряк, вітер); Latin borrowings (Брут, арена, імена). Since
6th— 7th cc. A.D. there are some influences from Serbian and
Croatian languages (весело, неділя, літо, вабити, травень). By
XI c. any informations about Ukrainian language had not
appeared.

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