there are how many words in English language excluding the words having other origin like Greek or Latin?

Question

some words in english language are derived from greek or latin or other roots than english.I want number of words in english language excluding these words

Answer 1

Can't be done. You'd have to say what origins you are including, not just which ones you are excluding. There's really no such thing as English, historically speaking. That's a comparatively recent development. All the way back to way before Chaucer, which is used as an exercise in reading really old English, there was Latin mixed in. There were words from Celtic, Angles, Saxons, and plenty of others. You're about a thousand years too late to sort them out now.

Answer 2

Go back a few hundred years , you'll find that English did not exist. The whole language is made up from words taken from Latin, Greek, Celtic, German, Icelandic, and a few other languages. That's what makes English the language that it is. If a word or phrase is difficult or awkward, we ditch it and use something from another source.
The problem with English is the spelling. Way back in time English was phonetic, but as time went by pronunciations were simplyfied, but the spelling remained. An example, the word knife used to be pronounced Kah-nee-feh. If you would ask a German how to spell knife, he would answer n-e-i-f. And so it goes.
A direct answer to your question - - - no one knows.

Answer 3

There are about 600,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Of those words, most of them have Latin or Greek
origins. In fact only 25% of those English words are derived from old English, Norse, or other Germanic languages.
That means that the vast majority of English words were at one
time borrowed from Latin or Greek.

Answer 4

It's impossible to determine the exact, or even an approximate number. English is unique, in that it contains words from more sources than does any other language. Among these are Japanese, many of the Sanskrit/Indian tongues, a few African words, some Hungarian, many Gaelic, and so on. This is why many consider English to be the most useful, flexible, and diverse of all languages

Answer 5

The Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. Over half of these words are nouns, about a quarter adjectives, and about a seventh verbs; the rest is made up of interjections, conjunctions, prepositions, suffixes, etc. These figures take no account of entries with senses for different parts of speech (such as noun and adjective).

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutenglish/numberwords?view=uk

It is very hard to make this estimate, particularly as many words reached English, for example, from Latin by way of Norman French. However, the result of a computerized survey of roughly 80,000 words in the old Shorter Oxford Dictionary (3rd edition) was published in Ordered Profusion by Thomas Finkenstaedt and Dieter Wolff (1973). They reckoned the proportions as follows:

Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin: 28.24%
French, including Old French and early Anglo-French: 28.3%
Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Dutch: 25%
Greek: 5.32%
No etymology given: 4.03%
Derived from proper names: 3.28%
All other languages contributed less than 1%

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutenglish/proportion?view=uk

Answer 6

English is all made of words that came from some other language: Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Spanish, etc.

Answer 7

The English language is a mixture of many different languages.