User blog comment:Wordworthyman/Anglish: Its Strengths and Its Weaknesses/@comment-32276655-20170823231844/@comment-32628745-20170831061128

Don't worry about that though. This community can do well to bring back archaic words and make new words that fit the theme of Anglish. Even though it may sound like something out of Beowulf, it is still fun to read and learn about the words the English used back in the day.

I think that with making new words, or reviving old words, you might be able to go all the way back to Proto-Germanic and get words from other Germanic languages, although, it would be important to consider that there would be at least some semantic change. Anglishers here do that quite often, and it makes sense since Germanic languages were for a long time closely related, in fact, if you consider the fact that the Latin language existed at the same time as the Proto-Germanic language, it really shows how old Latin is, and how young English is. Even back in those ancient times, Latin and Greek words made it into the Proto-Germanic language, but I think those words are so old, that getting rid of them would rid such words as "cheap", "mile", "belt" , "kitchen" and so on. So that is why I think removing all borrowed words from other languages might be too difficult, especially ones that are so much apart of English, that removing them could cause confusion. Usually, these would be words like "because" and "especially" that have a special function in grammar. But I'm not here to remove words, I am here to see the English language enriched, and by putting Anglish words in an environment where only Anglish words can be used, it really encourages us to think what new words we could make. Personally, I have a lot of fun reading the articles posted on Anglish. I might even try making my own in the future.