 It is divided into words that come from English, Frankish, Langobardic, Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle Low German, Old English, Old High German, Old Norse, Old Swedish, and Visigothic and finally, words which come from Germanic with the specific source unknown.Projections indicate over 600 Germanic words in Portuguese, with a tendency to increase due to English, German and other modern influences.Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from other languages.