This is also largely responsible for why more English words have a Romance root than a Germanic one. English’s Germanic words tend to be counted as their base and get combined as phrases, while its Romance words are more likely to get double counted in compound words or variants of different forms being counted as separate words.
This is also largely responsible for why more English words have a Romance root than a Germanic one. English’s Germanic words tend to be counted as their base and get combined as phrases, while its Romance words are more likely to get double counted in compound words or variants of different forms being counted as separate words.