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3. Where does the modern English language come from? And why we

can recognize words in Frisian?
The reason why we can recognize words is modern Frisian and modern English, is

because both languages come from the same language family, the Germanic family
of languages.

4. In which part of the world did the settlements of the Western
Germanic tribes occur?

The West Germanic tribes who had been on the move through Europe for the best
part of 1,000 years settled in what we would call the Lowlands of northern Europe,

Holland, Germany, and Denmark.

5. Which was the first tribe that invaded the English coast?
The Romans were the first tribe that imposed their will in English coast.

6. What meant "wealas" in the past?

It was a name that meant both "foreigner" and "slave".

7. Which were the Celtic words that survive into the modern English?

The Celtic words that survive into the modern English are:

"crag", meaning "rock",

"coombe", meaning "deep valley", and dialect words like "brat" and "brock" for
"badger"

8. How people used to name their places in the past?

People used to add some words according to the place that they were, for example,
the "-ing" meant "the people of"; "-ton", as in Wigton, meant "enclosure" or

"village" and "-ham" meant "farm".

9. List some words that are part of the Old English

Nouns like "youth", "son", "daughter", "field", "friend", "home", and "ground", And

prepositions like "in" and "on", "into", "by", and "from" "And" and "the" are from
Old English.

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