Different chronological layers of native words (Indo-European, Common Germanic

Old English native words)
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to present-day scholars. There is no doubt that many words

have not been recorded in the extant texts . Modern estimates of the total vocabulary of OE range from about thirty thousand words to almost one hundred thousand, —the latter figure being probably too high and unrealistic. Despite the gaps in the accessible data, philological studies in the last centuries have given us a fairly complete outline of the OE vocabulary

that existed in the English word-stock of the 7th century.

In a far broader sense, «native» denotes words whose origin cannot be traced to any other language

constitute the
oldest part of the OE vocabulary. This layer embraced
the

following thematic groups: body, plants,terms of
kingship, agricultural words.

most Germanic
languages, but do not occur outside the
group. These words

are connected with nature,
the sea and everyday life of Teutons.

link verb.