Friday words: Top 10 obsolete words we should bring back

[med_cat]

My personal favorites from this list are satisdiction (definitely from Latin satis=enough and dicere=speak) and aeolist (Greek Aeolus, god of the wind)

Satisdiction: to say all that is required. There are only a few recorded references to this word.

Aeolist: a pompous person who pretends to have inspiration.

...Although I do rather like "potvaliant" too--"to become brave only as a result of being drunk".

I believe prettygoodword had posted "spanghew" before :)

Comments

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Nope, spanghew was you (http://1word1day.livejournal.com/550282.html). :-)

Mine from the list were anagapesis (http://1word1day.livejournal.com/475567.html) and overmorrow (http://1word1day.livejournal.com/431712.html), and ersatz_read did apricate (http://1word1day.livejournal.com/414370.html). (I thought I'd done yestreen, but that may have been only in my journal.)

---L.

[med_cat]

How funny ;) Sure enough, as you say, it had been my post :)

The other three are good words, too!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I like them all - but want to use blatteroon :)

[med_cat]

Hee hee, it's a good word, isn't it ;)

Love your icon, btw!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It does describe me...

[med_cat]

;)

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

Anagapesis was a word that I definitely needed.

[med_cat]

It is an interesting word, that's for sure