Category:Welsh terms by usage
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Welsh terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
- Category:Welsh archaic terms: Welsh terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Welsh colloquialisms: Welsh terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
- Category:Welsh dated terms: Welsh terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
- Category:Welsh derogatory terms: Welsh terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
- Category:Welsh dialectal terms: Welsh terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
- Category:Welsh ecclesiastical terms: Welsh terms used only by religious figures.
- Category:Welsh familiar terms: Welsh terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
- Category:Welsh formal terms: Welsh terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
- Category:Welsh higher register terms: Welsh terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
- Category:Welsh humorous terms: Welsh terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
- Category:Welsh informal terms: Welsh terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
- Category:Welsh nonstandard terms: Welsh terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
- Category:Welsh obsolete terms: Welsh terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Welsh offensive terms: Welsh terms that are typically considered to offend people.
- Category:Welsh poetic terms: Welsh terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
- Category:Welsh puristic terms: Welsh terms adopted for linguistic purism.
- Category:Welsh rare terms: Welsh terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
- Category:Welsh short forms: Welsh terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
- Category:Welsh slang: Welsh colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
- Category:Welsh technical terms: Welsh terms that are usually or exclusively used in technical/scientific writing.
- Category:Welsh terms with archaic senses: Welsh terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Welsh terms with historical senses: Welsh terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
- Category:Welsh terms with obsolete senses: Welsh terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Welsh terms with rare senses: Welsh rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
- Category:Welsh terms with uncommon senses: Welsh uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
- Category:Welsh vulgarities: Welsh terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
Subcategories
This category has the following 26 subcategories, out of 26 total.
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C
D
- Welsh derogatory terms (0 c, 21 e)
- Welsh dialectal terms (0 c, 8 e)
E
- Welsh ecclesiastical terms (0 c, 2 e)
F
- Welsh familiar terms (0 c, 2 e)
- Welsh formal terms (0 c, 31 e)
H
- Welsh humorous terms (0 c, 8 e)
I
N
O
- Welsh obsolete terms (0 c, 4 e)
P
- Welsh poetic terms (0 c, 6 e)
- Welsh puristic terms (0 c, 3 e)
R
- Welsh rare terms (0 c, 5 e)
S
- Welsh short forms (0 c, 1 e)
- Welsh slang (0 c, 4 e)
T
- Welsh technical terms (0 c, 1 e)
- Welsh terms with archaic senses (0 c, 58 e)
- Welsh terms with historical senses (0 c, 69 e)
- Welsh terms with rare senses (0 c, 18 e)
- Welsh terms with uncommon senses (0 c, 3 e)
V
- Welsh vulgarities (0 c, 23 e)