With two comepeting Latin etymons, the Romance languages (except for Italian) have preferred forms deriving from natta, while the Germanic languages have preferred forms deriving from matta. English, showing the influence of Anglo-Norman on its lexicon, attests both mat and nat, though with a restricted semantic field for the latter. Anglo-Norman, in contrast to continental French, has both an m- and n- form (see matte), though the m- forms are attested only in very late (and likely English influenced) texts.