When people of one language conquer another there is always extensive borrowing of vocabulary. There's one major exception to the rule, which is that the old Celtic languages of Britain left almost no traces in modern English (I only use three of these)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Brittonic_origin …
The number of Germanic loanwords in French (French itself being such a loanwoard) is large enough that one Wikipedia page can't hold them all.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_words_of_Germanic_origin …
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Yes, and I know what they are. All the directions of the compass, for example. It’s still several times fewer than French words in English.
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As far as I can tell there are dozens of words from Nahuatl which passed on into Spanish, many hundreds have gone from Arabic into Spanish. I only count three regularly used Celtics words in English, which clearly marks it apart from those cases. It is is genuinely exceptional.
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