先日 Voicy heldio でお届けした「#1548. 英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable を読む (62-2) The Earlier Influence of Christianity on the Vocabulary」の続編を，今朝アーカイヴより配信しました．「#1573. 英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable を読む (62-3) with Taku さん --- 「英語史ライヴ2025」より」です．これは去る9月13日（土）の「英語史ライヴ2025」にて，朝の7時過ぎから生配信でお届けしたものです．
今回の超精読会も前回と同様に，ヘルメイトの Taku さんこと金田拓さん（帝京科学大学）に司会を務めていただきました．現場には，私のほか数名のヘルメイトもギャラリーとして参加しており，早朝からの熱い精読会となっています．40分ほどの時間をかけて，18文ほどを読み進めました．2人の精読にかける熱い想いを汲み取りつつ，ぜひお付き合いいただければ．
以下に，精読対象の英文を掲載します（Baugh and Cable, pp. 81--82) ．
It is obvious that the most typical as well as the most numerous class of words introduced by the new religion would have to do with that religion and the details of its external organization. Words are generally taken over by one language from another in answer to a definite need. They are adopted because they express ideas that are new or because they are so intimately associated with an object or a concept that acceptance of the thing involves acceptance also of the word. A few words relating to Christianity such as church and bishop were, as we have seen, borrowed earlier. The Anglo-Saxons had doubtless plundered churches and come in contact with bishops before they came to England. But the great majority of words in Old English having to do with the church and its services, its physical fabric and its ministers, when not of native origin were borrowed at this time. Because most of these words have survived in only slightly altered form in Modern English, the examples may be given in their modern form. The list includes abbot, alms, altar, angel, anthem, Arian, ark, candle, canon, chalice, cleric, cowl, deacon, disciple, epistle, hymn, litany, manna, martyr, mass, minster, noon, nun, offer, organ, pall, palm, pope, priest, provost, psalm, psalter, relic, rule, shrift, shrive, shrive, stole, subdeacon, synod, temple, and tunic. Some of these were reintroduced later.
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