[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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