Category:Old English terms by usage
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Old English terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
- Category:Old English dialectal terms: Old English terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
- Category:Old English ecclesiastical terms: Old English terms used only by religious figures.
- Category:Old English hapax legomena: Old English terms that are attested only once in the entire corpus.
- Category:Old English higher register terms: Old English terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
- Category:Old English poetic terms: Old English terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
- Category:Old English rare terms: Old English terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
- Category:Old English terms with archaic senses: Old English terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Old English terms with historical senses: Old English terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
- Category:Old English terms with obsolete senses: Old English terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Old English terms with rare senses: Old English rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
- Category:Old English terms with uncertain meaning: Old English terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
- Category:Old English terms with uncommon senses: Old English uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
- Category:Old English uncommon terms: Old English uncommonly used terms.
- Category:Old English vulgarities: Old English terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
Subcategories
This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
D
- Old English dialectal terms (0 c, 2 e)
E
- Old English ecclesiastical terms (0 c, 1 e)
H
- Old English hapax legomena (0 c, 21 e)
P
R
- Old English rare terms (0 c, 10 e)
T
- Old English terms with archaic senses (0 c, 1 e)
- Old English terms with historical senses (0 c, 7 e)
- Old English terms with rare senses (0 c, 35 e)
- Old English terms with uncertain meaning (0 c, 2 e)
- Old English terms with uncommon senses (0 c, 1 e)
U
- Old English uncommon terms (0 c, 1 e)
V
- Old English vulgarities (0 c, 1 e)