English, in short, has almost ceased to be inflexional and has become analytic.
As regards matter or vocabulary, the language has lost in certain directions, and gained in others.

It has lost many old Teutonic roots, such as _wig_, war; _rice_, kingdom; _tungol_, light; with their derivatives, _wigend_, warrior; _rixian_, to rule; _tungol-witega_, astrologer; and so forth.

The relative number of such losses to the survivals may be roughly gauged from the passages quoted above.

On the other hand, the language has gained by the incorporation of many Romance words, shortly after the Norman Conquest, such as _place_, _voice_, _judge_, _war_, and _royal_.

Some of these have entirely superseded native old English words.