Category:Middle Irish terms by usage
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Middle Irish terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
- Category:Middle Irish archaic terms: Middle Irish terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Middle Irish derogatory terms: Middle Irish terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
- Category:Middle Irish hapax legomena: Middle Irish terms that are attested only once in the entire corpus.
- Category:Middle Irish higher register terms: Middle Irish terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
- Category:Middle Irish poetic terms: Middle Irish terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
- Category:Middle Irish rare terms: Middle Irish terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
- Category:Middle Irish terms with archaic senses: Middle Irish terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Middle Irish terms with rare senses: Middle Irish rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
Subcategories
This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
A
D
- Middle Irish derogatory terms (0 c, 1 e)
H
- Middle Irish hapax legomena (0 c, 2 e)
P
- Middle Irish poetic terms (0 c, 7 e)
R
- Middle Irish rare terms (0 c, 2 e)
T
- Middle Irish terms with archaic senses (0 c, 1 e)
- Middle Irish terms with rare senses (0 c, 1 e)