Saxon Elements of English.

28. From the Anglo-Saxon we get,—

    1. The articles an, or a, and the, the pronouns, numerals (excepting second, which is from the Latin secun'dus), prepositions, conjunctions, adjectives of irregular comparison, and the auxiliary, defective and (so-called) irregular verbs.

    2. Monosyllabic derivatives formed by a modification of the root-vowel, or of the final consonant; as ditch (from dig), bless (from bliss), and the majority of the words formed by strictly Anglo-Saxon suffixes.

    3. Most words denoting common natural objects and phenomena; as,—

4. Words relating to the family, household and farm; as,—

brother	bath	door	chaff	scythe
child	beam	dough	cheese	wheat
daughter	bed	home	corn	ash
father	bolster	hearth	cow	beech
friend	besom	kettle	delve	berry
husband	bread	loaf	harvest	brick
kin	brew	oven	hay	fir
mother	broth	roof	hemp	grass
sister	cloth	thatch	honey	oak
wife	comb	barley	milk	oats
widow	cook	barn	plow	tree
bake	cradle	calf	rake	etc.

5. The names of most of the parts of the body; as,—

beard	brain	ear	foot	heel
body	breast	eye	hair	knee
bone	breath	finger	hand	leg
bosom	brow	fist	heart	lip
blood	chin	flesh	head	mouth, etc.

6. The names of common animals; as,—

ape	dove	hare	man	ruddock
bear	fish	hawk	owl	throstle
bee	foal	horse	ox	turtle
beetle	fowl	hound	pig	weevil
bird	fox	lamb	sheep	worm
deer	goose	lark	raven

7. Terms for common qualities and actions; as,—

bold	high	ask	buy	find
blind	low	hear	chaffer	fly
bright	holy	bid	chew	get
broad	hot	bind	come	give
cold	old	bite	dip	go
dark	quick	blaze	do	have
dead	rough	bleach	drink	kill
deaf	sick	blow	eat	love
good	smooth	bring	fear	look
hard	pretty	burn	fill	make, etc.

8. Names of common things—weapons, tools, clothes, etc.,—

awl	bridge	hook	nail	spear
bank	food	hat	name	bow
book	fire	knife	ship	bill
boat	gun	meat	sword	arrow

In addition to these, the Anglo-Saxon gives us most of the language of invective humor and colloquial pleasantry, including such rough but expressive words as gawky, grim, sham, sly, lazy, shabby, etc.; also the constituent words in popular proverbs; as, "A rolling stone gathers no moss."
      Paragraphs may be readily found in the English Bible, and in the writings of Defoe and Bunyan, consisting almost entirely of Anglo-Saxon words.

29. Thus nearly all the most common and necessary Nouns, Adjectives and Verbs are Anglo-Saxon (from the Teutonic).

30. Words indicating a more advanced civilization, and most of the terms employed in art, science, mental and moral philosophy, are from the Latin and Greek.