Old English contained a certain number of loanwords from <answer>Latin</answer>, which was the scholarly and diplomatic lingua franca of Western Europe. It is sometimes possible to give approximate dates for the borrowing of individual <answer>Latin</answer> words based on which patterns of sound change they have undergone. Some <answer>Latin</answer> words had already been borrowed into the Germanic languages before the ancestral Angles and Saxons left continental Europe for Britain. More entered the language when the Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity and <answer>Latin</answer>-speaking priests became influential. It was also through Irish Christian missionaries that the <answer>Latin</answer> alphabet was introduced and adapted for the writing of Old English, replacing the earlier runic system. Nonetheless, the largest transfer of <answer>Latin</answer>-based (mainly Old French) words into English occurred after the Norman Conquest of 1066, and thus in the Middle English rather than the Old English period.
From what language did Old English borrow some words?
Latin