English is a mix of Saxon, Frisian, Jute, Anglo, Norse and a bunch of "romantic" words thrown in by French speaking Norsemen.
Pig -Germanic
Pork -Italic
Cow -Germanic
Beef -Italic
Deer -Germanic
Vension -French
Fantastic means more than good in English. In French it just means good.
English was looked down upon by the Norman elite but as the languages melded together as the first English court in English was in line 1300s, the biggest remaining effect on English was the higher or lower meanings many words that translate to their original language means exactly the same, but we view the French (and in modern day Latin) equivalent as a more serious or emotional 'romantic' version.
English is a Germanic language. It had a ton of influence from Norse on the basis of Norse grammar, not so much day words. We dropped genders, and only very recently dropped all of our cases. The reason for this is a need to communicate, and the nobility not actually speaking English except in Parliament for a very long time. The language didn't have any standard, they viewed it as a mud language.
The grammar is Germanic, look at Frisian or Afrikaans. They both recently dropped cases, and Afrikaans even got rid of auxillary verbs and just says 'is'.
80% of the words we use on a daily basis are of Germanic origin. If you don't believe me look up the song "Northern End" which is a middle English song that is very beautiful. It may not sound understandable at first, but look up the great vowel shift we had.
I'm fucking ashamed of you Brits saying it's a fucking Romantic language, fucking retards.
This is my major so I autism more about this if anyone wants.