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Pages in category "Archaic English words and phrases" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
Archaic English words and phrases (1 C, 20 P) L. Latin words and phrases (22 C, 379 P) P. Pali words and phrases (36 P) S. Sanskrit words and phrases (5 C, 319 P)
AD-GI 4, Archaic Word List C, "tribute", [7] a misnomer based on identification of gú/gún with tax, a concise archaic Sumerian, or perhaps proto-Euphratic, word list of animals, numbers, foodstuff and agricultural terminology [8]: 183 embedded in a thanksgiving ritual, first encountered in Uruk and later in Ur and Fāra [9] [KAV 46-47, 63-65 ...
Historical health care occupations (1 C, 6 P) ... Historical management occupations (1 C, 9 P) Mesopotamian priests (5 P) N. Nazi concentration camp occupations (1 C ...
Lexical archaisms are single archaic words or expressions used regularly in an affair (e.g. religion or law) or freely; literary archaism is the survival of archaic language in a traditional literary text such as a nursery rhyme or the deliberate use of a style characteristic of an earlier age—for example, in his 1960 novel The Sot-Weed ...
(informal) old man; (informal) boss; football manager (US: soccer coach); Also in US: (professional) chief electrician on a theatrical or film set. gangway * a path between the rows of seats in a theatre or elsewhere (US aisle ; gangway is a naval command to make a path for an officer)
In the history of science, forms of words are often coined to describe newly observed phenomena. Sometimes the words chosen reflect assumptions about the phenomenon which later turn out to be erroneous. In most cases, the original forms of words then become archaic and fall into disuse, with notable exceptions. This list documents such archaisms.