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This time frame is central to our bank story: at the very historical moment that a Germanic root for a “workbench” was evolving into a banca in the Mediterranean, speakers of Old English were shaping the same root into the word benc, which was equally indispensable to their culture.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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This time frame is central to our bank story: at the very historical moment that a Germanic root for a “workbench” was evolving into a banca in the Mediterranean, speakers of Old English were shaping the same root into the word benc, which was equally indispensable to their culture.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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If the older Germanic benc had delayed its journey by fifteen hundred years or so, it could have circulated among languages in less time than it took a banker in Florence to weigh a mound of silver coins.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Airs of the Beowulfian benc still hang about words in living languages whose common ancestry is Germanic, including English.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The Old English “bench” even assured a kind of sacred order in the world: people found their places among prized kinsmen and allied clans on the benc.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Airs of the Beowulfian benc still hang about words in living languages whose common ancestry is Germanic, including English.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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If the older Germanic benc had delayed its journey by fifteen hundred years or so, it could have circulated among languages in less time than it took a banker in Florence to weigh a mound of silver coins.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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While the Global English word bank finds its financial roots in Italy, whose banca descended from the Germanic north, English had its own related Germanic word, benc.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The Old English “bench” even assured a kind of sacred order in the world: people found their places among prized kinsmen and allied clans on the benc.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Meaning “bench” or “long seat,” this native term was entirely devoid of any association with Roman coins or Italian mounds of real or theoretical silver and gold.xix Quite unlike the “workbench” that Mediterranean bankers adapted from Germanic languages to describe work surfaces for their money-changing operations, the Old English benc had potent Germanic associations.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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