How much English vocabulary is still Germanic?
Answer by Peggy Tharpe:
Found this on the internet…so it must be true.
The study, published in 1973, offered this breakdown of sources: Latin, 28.34 percent; French, 28.3 percent; Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Dutch, 25 percent; Greek 5.32 percent; no etymology given, 4.03 percent; derived from proper names, 3.28 percent; all other languages, less than 1 percent.Jan 1, 2010