How To Use Archaicism In A Sentence
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Thinking full well" makes no sense to me, not even as an archaicism.
Languagehat.com: THINKING FULL WELL.
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It's always tempting to assume that everything in an older branch such as Anatolian is an archaicism but naturally that can't logically be the case.
Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending
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Nowadays, "stevedore" is essentially an archaicism; the men in the longshoremens union run those giant cranes and are paid very well.
Archive 2007-11-01
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Nowadays, "stevedore" is essentially an archaicism; the men in the longshoremens union run those giant cranes and are paid very well.
Archive 2007-11-01
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The heroine's small brother, with playful archaicism called "a springald," puts on her skirts and things and passes himself off for his sister or anybody else he pleases.
Ponkapog Papers.
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This is why many IEists bow to common sense and recognize that the r-mediopassive is the true archaicism here, hence 1ps mediopassive *-h₂ór.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Wolzek pronounced the archaicism with studied care.
This Crowded Earth
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English, with a sub-flavour of the Mabinogionic archaicism, is admirable; and his style gives life and light to the nine volumes whose matter is frequently heavy enough.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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This, I feel, is in itself an indication that we're dealing with an archaicism.
The Great Pre-IE Centralization
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But a purist who objects so forcibly to archaism and archaicism should avoid such terms as "whilom Persian Secretary" (p. 170); as anthophobia, which he is compelled to explain by "dread of selecting only what is best" (p. 175), as anthophobist (p. 176); as "fatuous ejaculations" (p. 183), as a "raconteur
Arabian nights. English
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Mavors is, as far as I know, only attested in later classical poetry and so does not necessarily suggest an archaicism.
Getting the origins of Mars and Vulcan right