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...is has very little influence from French and retains a much stronger Anglo-Norse vocabulary. ...rong opposition to his rule, not least from the fiercely independent Anglo-Norse nobles of the north. Despite repeated attempts to subdue them William was n ...

...s subject to influence (mainly lexical) from Norse, Gaelic and Old English/Scots. The definite article causes lenition to feminine nouns (e.g. ''er wrek'' 'the woman'). ...

...and adjectives (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative); three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter); and three numbers (singular, dual in personal pronouns, ...timately to Proto-Indo-European. These borrowings predominantly consist of nouns (~700), verbs (~300), and adjectives (~200), showing how East Germanic infl ...