Archaic words and phrases

In language, an archaism is a word, a sense of a word, or a style of speech or writing that belongs to a historical epoch beyond living memory, but that has survived in a few practical settings or affairs. 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 Factor, John Barth writes in an 18th-century style. Arc

Mawlā (; , plural mawālī ; ), is a polysemous Arabic word, whose meaning varied in different periods and contexts.

constructed language based on Esperanto, aimed at a deliberately medieval feel as a hypothetical earlier stage of Esperanto

An electuary is a medicine consisting of a powder or other ingredient mixed with something sweet such as honey to make it more palatable.

word that is broadly obsolete but remains in current use due to its presence within an idiom

Széll, Szell is a Hungarian surname. The name comes as an archaic Turkic loanword with the Chuvash word "ҫил" (śil) which later became the Hungarian word "szél" meaning "wind". The name is topographic in nature, meaning "someone who lived in a spot exposed to the wind". The German equivalent is "Selle" and the English equivalent is "Sell". Széll may refer to:

patriarchial pejorative term for unmarried women who had "lost their innocence"