The Language of the Anglo-Saxons

The language of the Anglo-Saxons has started to change very early on. It wasn't so much the vocabulary or grammar that was changing, it was the actual sounds of the language. The word DISC derives from the Latin word DISCUS which had been borrowed by those early Germanic tribes back on the continent. In the immediate aftermath of the English-Saxon migration to Britain, DISC became DISC in very early Old English. From DISC to DISC, we can hear that early English sound change.