[Fictionary] dictionary-only words

Pierre Abbat phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org
Sat Feb 26 06:19:04 UTC 2022


On Wednesday, February 16, 2022 2:40:58 PM EST Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:
> Possibly of interest to the fictionariat: wikipedia has a list of words
> that appear in two or more dictionaries but have no (or almost no) attested
> uses outside of dictionaries.
> 
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_dictionary-only_terms

Is "castaldick" related to "gastald"?

I used "loemocomium" and "loemopyra" early in the pandemic.

"Yeender" suggests "yeought": the time between sunset and midnight (?).

I think that Ancient Greek dictionary-only terms should be similarly excluded. 
When an Ancient Greek mentions that "σπακα" is Median for "dog", it should be 
included, as Median is barely attested (there's only one other attested Median 
word). But when Hesychius says that "γρύξ" means "dirt of fingernails", and 
does not provide an example of how to use it, and there are no actual uses of 
the word, I don't know whether to say του/της γρυγος/γρυχος/γρυκος.

Pierre
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