> During this period, more than 10,000 loanwords from French entered the English language, mostly in domains where the aristocracy held sway: the arts, military, medicine, law and religion.
One interesting aspect where this is very visible in the english language is meat-related language.
Raw food and animals words, butchered by the common people have mostly germanic/saxon roots that have nothing in common with french words, e.g. lamb, chicken, pork, beef, etc.
But cooked/processed meat has mostly french-derived words: sausage, charcuterie, cutlet, fillet, grill, sirloin, roast, stew..
One interesting aspect where this is very visible in the english language is meat-related language.
Raw food and animals words, butchered by the common people have mostly germanic/saxon roots that have nothing in common with french words, e.g. lamb, chicken, pork, beef, etc.
But cooked/processed meat has mostly french-derived words: sausage, charcuterie, cutlet, fillet, grill, sirloin, roast, stew..