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The earliest lexical lists are the archaic (early third millennium BC) word lists uncovered in caches of business documents and which comprise lists of nouns, the absence of verbs being due to their sparse use in these records of commercial transactions.
Archaic English words and phrases (1 C, 19 P) L. Latin words and phrases (22 C, 380 P) P. Pali words and phrases (36 P) S. Sanskrit words and phrases (5 C, 318 P)
Fezist çielo e tierra, el terçero el mar, Hiciste el cielo y la tierra, al tercer día el mar, Thou madest Heaven and Earth, and on the third day the sea, Fezist estrelas e luna, e el sol pora escalentar, Hiciste las estrellas y la luna, y el sol para calentar, Thou madest the stars and the Moon, and the Sun for warmth,
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.
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 ...
The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the oldest well-documented language of each family, although forms in modern languages are given for families in which the older stages of the languages are poorly documented or do not differ significantly from the modern languages.
Llorente Maldonado de Guevara, Antonio "Las Palabras pirenaicas de origen prerromano, de J. Hubschmid, y su importancia para la lingüística peninsular", Archivo de Filología Aragonesa, 8-9, pp. 127–157, 1958. Monlau y Roca, Pedro Felipe. "Diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana Madrid, 1856. Oroz Arizcuren, Francisco Javier.
The earliest recorded appearance of the word prithee listed in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1577, while it is most commonly found in works from the seventeenth century. [2] The contraction is a form of indirect request that has disappeared from the language. [3] Prithee is the most widely known example of second person object enclitics.