The Anglo-Saxons Love to Compound Words

Some of those Anglo-Saxon names have survived the centuries. They reflect this tendency to combine two words together to make a new word. This process is called compounding. It gave us modern words like rainbow and butterfly. A skeleton was a bahnhus, literally a bone house. And the body was flesh hama, a flesh home. Next time we look at the arrival of Christian missionaries and the beginning of written English.