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You don't need to look up etymology to have a feeling for the sources of words. In general, the Germanic words are shorter, seem less academic, and have a lower proportion of vowels. Of course, it's possible to overdo it.
This gave me so many jollies. Someone call up Seamus Heaney and have him put it into Anglo-Saxon verse.
In the workstead watching, we made a worldken;
A beholding of bits, their bulk and bindings...