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Archæic English General Anonymous Tue Jun 8 06:12:43 2021 No.18411096 [Reply] [Original]

>What is this?
A thread were we discuss archaic English—be it literature, poetry, music lyrics, etc., as long as there are words to analyse and discuss.
>Why?
To understand passages, to learn how to write believably in this style (for example, if one were composing poetry or writing a period piece and wanted to avoid linguistic anachronisms and grammatical errors), or to satiate a general linguistic interest in the English language and it's history, etc. really there are many reasons.
>What do you mean by archaic
Really, any language that has long since fallen out of fashion, hopefully this should help:
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Obsolete_and_archaic_terms#Classifications_of_old_words
If I had to give a chronological limit on what's considered "archaic" then I think I would say anything written in the Edwardian era and before but I'd suggest that the bulk of the language being referenced in this thread is from or in the style of the Regency Era and before. Nothing modern (1920's and after) though, simply dated slang like "jitterbug" or "tubular" don't count as archaic English.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 8 08:09:30 2021 No.18411488 Opinion: are Shakespeare's plays the best way to remember English from his time? They were basically dumbed down poetry...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 8 08:14:12 2021 No.18411512 File: 38 KB, 621x414, 6AD34B3B-94F5-4A60-908C-8C7BC29C3E1B.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18411488 Nice digits

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Anonymous Tue Jun 8 08:17:32 2021 No.18411525

I've been collecting obscure native english words for my interest of anglish. behold

atone
arm

bane
bid
brook
brew
burgh
burrow
barrow
burgh
borough
bellow
berate
buck
beswike
bever

con
churl
chide
crook
cleave
cleanse

dear
dearth
draw
draught
deal
duck
ditch
doom
foredoom
deem
dight

eke
eerie
ember
earnest
eath
enliven
err

fasten
frain
fremd
fright(en)
fare
ferry
fele (doublet of poly-)
forsaken

ghost
ghast
gale (doublet of yell)
gruesome
grave
groove
grief
grieve
grip
grope
gripe
gnaw
gloomy
gleam
growl
goad

hag
heave
haven
haul
hurl
hound
hollow
hint
hinder
hence
holt
hide
hovel
halse
hark
harken
heap
heath, heathland
heathen
haste
hasten

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 8 08:19:07 2021 No.18411537 idle kin ken knead loathe lath lithe leed lade lich likam lore leash lease mickle muckle mound might mighty mere mow mead meadow mishaps nim numb ordeal ought oath ode orped orpedly plight prod quell roop reek reckon rine

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Anonymous Tue Jun 8 08:20:14 2021 No.18411540

sake
seek
sorrow
beseech
sound
seethe
saught
soothe
speer
spur

shape
shove
sheave
sheath
shade
shed
shelter
shoal
sheen
shiver
shriek
shrivel
shatter
shrithe
shrive

screech
scathe
scatter
scrub
scrubby

steadfast
stool
stealth
stiff
strive
strife
strand
steer
steepel
sty
stall
stell
stow (cognate with -stan)
stout

sly
slant
sloth (slow+-th)
slumber
slough

swine
swell
swink
sway
sweep
sweven
swart
swarthy
swive
swivel
swift

smite
smear
smatch
smack

snare
sneak (doublet of snake)

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Anonymous Tue Jun 8 08:21:35 2021 No.18411548

tide
tumble
token
teach
tow
tee
tame
toil
tummy
timber
trough

twine

tread

thwart
thwack
thack
thatch
thole
thorp
thresh
thrash
thrive
throng
thede

weald
wald
wold
wail
weep
woe

witch
wicked
whim
whimsical
wort
wither
withstand
withdraw
withhold
withset
withgo
witherling
wraith
wit
witness
whit
wight
wend
wander
wretch
wale
wreak
wreck
wrought

yive (doublet of give)
yard (doublet of garden)
yede (archaic preterit of go)
note that some of these might not sound archaic, It's for the anglish aesthetics

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 8 10:06:15 2021 No.18412076 >>18411488 >They were basically dumbed down poetry Take it back faggot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 8 15:39:01 2021 No.18413733 >>18411525 nice

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 8 15:41:27 2021 No.18413748 >>18411525 >buck breaking

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 8 15:55:22 2021 No.18413815 >>18412076 Iambic petameter used for character speech. How is it not poetry for plebs?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 8 15:59:51 2021 No.18413837 >>18413815 How is it? Present your case.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 8 17:40:27 2021 No.18414388 File: 63 KB, 1337x1289, AnnoyedPepe.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18413815 How does that make it poetry for plebs you utter muppet?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 8 18:47:59 2021 No.18414734 >>18411096 I've read so much 17th century English literature that it feels natural now. You'll notice that most of the words that have fallen out of use in the last 400 years are Germanic ones that we replaced with foreign loanwords. Feels bad.

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Anonymous Tue Jun 8 21:49:32 2021 No.18415598

>>18414734
True, I can't help but speak like the books I read and, having read a lot of XVII-XVIIIth c. /lit/, I think I sometimes slip into it and just come off as pretensious to normies. I blame my autism; God, why can't people just try to speak more elegantly?