Early Middle Ages. The Germanic tribes who would later give rise to the English language (the notional Angles, Saxon and Jutes) traded and fought with the Latin speaking Roman Empire.Many words (some originally from Greek) for common objects therefore entered the vocabulary of these Germanic people via Latin even before the tribes reached Britain (what is known as the …

A synonym is a word, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous.The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one form can be replaced by another in a sentence without …

タイプ. 文化伝播には5タイプが存在するとみなされてきた。 拡大的伝播（Expansion diffusion）：発信地で強く存在し、他の地域まで拡散するもの。しばしば階層的普及、伝染的普及、刺激的普及を含む。

c. Such a system as used by a nation, people, or other distinct community; often contrasted with dialect.