ITT: forgotten words from your language/country
I'll start: colorado was commonly used instead of rojo (red)
G'day
It only exists in backwards rural places
the use of æ to ae
Defenestrar - to throw something/one through the window
Olvidar - to forget. Replaced by esquecer.
Alhures - in another place.
ochi
>eyes (glaza)
dlan'
>hand (ladon')
ud
>dick
>>56604608
Definitely forgotten, because I've never heard any of these words.
>>56604284
g'day may how u goin
>>56604608
so spanish words were discontinued
>>56604203
How are we supposed to post forgotten words, if everybody had already forgotten about them?
What kind of sorcery is this?
>>56604806
I still hear a certain professor using "alhures". He's considered pedantic even by his ex-wife.
>>56604822
Kinda... which words were preserved or kicked out of the languages was pretty much random.
>>56604608
>Defenestrar
thats essentially the same thing as we have in english, defenestrate
>>56604608
>alhures
algures?
>>56604608
>>56604806
While "alhures" is uncommon, especially in Brazil, "algures" survives and is in regular use in Portugal. There's also the opposite, "nenhures".
>>56605183
yup, can confirm
>>56605166
What >>56605183 said. "Alhures" is almost certainly an archaism, unlike "algures".
>>56605294
you guys use "algures" or has it also been forgotten?
>>56605370
It's quite rare, I remember only seeing the written word, never listening to. People simply use "noutro lugar", "num lugar" or similar.
>>56605463
interesting, thanks
>>56605548
>>56605463
how often are there differences in vocab between pt and pt-br? im curious cause muh heritage is portuguese and when i heard brazilian accent for the first time i was quite confused that it was so different.
>>56605597
well we use different expressions from each other, but with the same exact meanings (that it to say, it's not like the portuguese or the brazilians use words for things with no correspondence with each other).
mostly it comes down to the way words are spoken. portuguese tend to close their vowels, and every "s" at the end of a word sounds like a "j". by contrast, brazilians read every single "s" as an "s" sound, but they also open up their vowels a lot and also tend not to read the tongue "r" sound and instead use something like a "hh" sound (a strong "h"). they also tend to add a "shee" or "jee" sound whenever a word has a "t" or a "d". for instance the word
>distinguir
portuguese for "to distinguish". brazilians will read "distshinguihh", but portuguese will read "dijtinguir"
>>56604203
>Änglamakerska
A woman who took care of unwanted children and let them die
>tfw this was apparently commonly used back kn the day
>>56607274
Why should you need a word for that? It was something common?
>>56606022
savages with a savage language the lot of you
>>56604203
Actually we used colorado a lot during the Franco years because red was associated with commies. Old people still do.
>>56608595
EL ARGETano
>>56604284
No, open your fucking ears, a lot of people say it, including women
Why'd you stop using it? the state?
>>56604203
>Canadian Patriotism
English (Canadian) phrase, used to describe feeling proud to be Canadian. Nowadays "种族主义" is used instead.
>>56604203
>I live in OP's extinct word
>OC from my off-roading ride yesterday
effluvium: unpleasant smell
>>56607274
>Änglamakerska
This word exists in German, too. We (used to) call these women "Engelmacherinnen", angel makers.
>>56604203
Puerto Ricans still use colorado interchangeably with pelirrojo.
>>56610061
>>56607274
>Germanics
>people
Wait, so unwanted kids were just given to the appointed cunt in town whose role was to kill them? What?
Vuestra Merced became Usted, which means "You" in a formal mode
Allende became Más Allá, beyond
Jerifalte became Halcón, Hawk
>>56609948
Looks very comfy desu
>>56610177
It was nice. It's near the town of Westcliffe
>>56604203
Dominion.
haberdasher: men’s clothier; provider of sundries
>>56607274
"A woman who killed off unwanted Swedes"
So, they had refugees and feminists in Sweden back then too?
widdershins (also withershins): counterclockwise, contrary
abstemious: restrained in consumption of food and alcohol
>>56610110
Más allá
>>56610456
"Abstemio" en Español
>anicroche
The best definition I can find is when /pol/ finds something fishy yet vague and blames the jews. Basically something gone wrong.
>menterie
I've been it's not used in France anymore, it means "lie," they use mensonge instead.
>boucane
Also not used in France anymore, means smoke.
And in Spanish the common word for forest "bosque" is the old word in French : bosquet.
>Jauto (tasteless)
Replaced by 'Insípido'.
> Desnortado (disorientated)
Replaced by 'Desorientado'.
>Picaro / Picardía (audacious)
Replaced by 'Atrevido'.
PS: idk why, but now it's a meme.
Related to bush?
>>56610736
Pícario and picardía are still somewhat used, though.
>>56610771
In the life outside internet, nobody uses it. At least in my country.
It was a word used many years ago, like 'guapo' (manly), 'bizarro' (heroic), colorado, etc, etc..
>>56610824
Guapo is still used up here, though it means handsome.
No clue about bizarro, though.
>>56610837
Yeah, 'Bizarro' actualy in spanish means heroic, if you google it in RAE still has it's meaning.
We still have a military march wich says:
"Aquí está la bandera que un día
en la batalla tremoló triunfal
y, llena de orgullo y bizarría,
a San Lorenzo se dirigió inmortal."
Kek
--
And guapo in our country means manly, ej: ¿Te haces el guapo? Hacemos un mano a mano acá no más'.
prevaricate - to lie
>>56604284
I still say it and I live in the city
>>56604203
> forgotten languages
The thousands of languages of the Aboriginals that no longer exist
>>56610958
I had no clue about bizarro, lol.
Up here guapo is used by mid-aged women to describe guys like Channing Tatum and Henry Cavill, kek.
>>56611167
wrong attached photo oops
>>56604203
You used to refer to a group of people. Now we say y'all and yins etc. And for the 2nd person singular we had thou and thee.
>>56607560
I'm pretty sure women used to give their babies to nannies but these nannies would get so many that they would let some die so all of them wouldn't grow up fucked up
>>56604612
We actually use all these words.
peiger
Independencia
>>56614425
kek
>>56607274
>>56610061
Is this real? I thought the Swede was joking because of how closely it resembles "Angela Merkel"
yon and yonder
As in:
here, there, yonder
this, that, yon
Where 'yon' is like a step in distance away from 'that', and 'yonder' is a step in distance away from 'there'. They weren't replaced with any other words, but the concept is still expressed in phrases like 'way over there' (which would be 'over yonder').
...Actually I have family in rural Alabama that still uses yonder (said like 'yunder'), which is the only reason I know about this.
A lot and i mean a lot of dialectal sayings and words.
If we are talking about normal italian:
Tristo is a word i really like, it mean both evil or unfortunate.
And for many words there's almost always a cooler sounding word not used anymore, quite a shame. I really need to read the whole Divine Comedy one day, lots of interesting words not used anymore.
>>56604203
Ereyesterday (the day before yesterday)
Overmorrow (the day after tomorrow)
Americans no longer use the word "fortnight" (two weeks) and consider it archaic, but it's common in the UK.
>>56604203
>forgotten words from your language/country
How about "purity"
>>56616105
I see it in use every day, weird.
Codesto
It's used only in Tuscany as of now
Questo is used to talk about something close to himself, the person who is speaking (similiar to This)
Quello is used to talk about something far from both the speaker and the listener (That)
Codesto is used to talk about something close to the listener but far from the person speaking.
Questo, Quello, Codesto.
In latin they are
Hic, ille, iste.
>>56604612
>ochi
>eyes (glaza)
Cool, in Italian "occhi" means eyes.
Chesterfield
It means couch
>>56604203
Russian:
Es'm(I am..)
Esi(you are..)
Este(you(plural) are..)
Esmy(we are..)
Sut'(they are..)
Est'(he/she/it is..)
>Grenzen / Grenzkontrollen
It is an outdated concept of guarding the areas of your country that connect you with adjacent countries so that only people / things you want to get into your country can get in.
>>56616472
Isn't that just like border control or customs or something?
>>56616493
I don't like to use fascist words like that.
>>56604612
dlan' means palm
>>56607274
>>56607560
>>56611790
>>56610061
>>56610098
>>56614834
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelmacher
the englisch artikle is only about abortion...
what do you expect from people who sold their fellow citizens from a diffrent religous sect into slavery?
>>56607274
>>56610061
>Änglamakerska
>Angela Merkelska
This refugee crisis thing just took a dark turn.
>>56616461
Bo(because)
Al'/ali(or)
Bude(if)
Jako(as)
Sireč(in other words)
