The first languages for which standardisation was promoted included Italian (" questione della lingua ": Modern Tuscan / Florentine vs. Old Tuscan / Florentine vs. Venetian > Modern Florentine + archaic Tuscan + Upper Italian ), French ( the standard is based on Parisian ), English ( the standard is based on the London dialect ) and ( High ) German ( based on the dialects of the chancellery of Meissen in Saxony, Middle German and the chancellery of Prague in Bohemia (" Common German ")).

French scientists such as Antoine Lavoisier worked to replace the archaic units of weights and measures by a coherent scientific system.

Maastrichtian ) Mestreech ; French Maëstricht ( archaic ); Spanish Mastrique ( archaic )) is a city in the Netherlands.

However, many languages use mixtures of bases, and other features, for instance 79 in French is soixante dix-neuf ( 60 + 10 + 9 ) and in Welsh is pedwar ar bymtheg a thrigain ( 4 +( 5 + 10 )+( 3 × 20 )) or ( somewhat archaic ) pedwar ugain namyn un ( 4 × 20 − 1 ).

The French were slow to adopt the term " humour "; in French, " humeur " and " humour " are still two different words, the former referring to a person's mood or to the archaic concept of the four humours.

In addition, the archaic French ( more specifically, Norman ) prefix fitz ( cognate with the modern French fils, meaning " son "), appears in England's aristocratic family lines dating from the Norman Conquest, and also among the Anglo-Irish.

Relatively archaic forms of Quebec French are spoken on the territory corresponding to the historic Government of Three Rivers ( Gouvernement de Trois-Rivières ), notably Magoua and Chaouin.

The term aviatrix ( aviatrice in French ), now archaic, was formerly used for a female aviator.

There are some French and Franco-Provencal-speaking districts in the Italian Aosta Valley, while there are clusters of Slovene-speakers in the Italian portion of the Julian Alps, in the Resia Valley ( where the archaic Resian dialect of Slovene is still spoken ) and in the mountain district known as Venetian Slovenia.

Besançon ( French and Arpitan: ; archaic, ), is the capital and principal city of the Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

* Étienne (" Estienne " is an archaic spelling ), Stéphane ( French )

Law French is an archaic language originally based on Old Norman and Anglo-Norman, but increasingly influenced by Parisian French and, later, English.

This was achieved by digging what the French termed a sappe ( derived from the archaic French word for spade ).

Historically, the sperm whale was also known as the common cachalot ; " cachalot " is derived from an archaic French word for " tooth ".

The sperm whale is also known as the " cachalot ", which is thought to derive from the archaic French for " tooth " or " big teeth ", as preserved for example in cachau in the Gascon dialect ( a word of either Romance or Basque origin ).

Because of the popularity of the Reynard stories, renard was often used as a euphemism, so that today renard is the standard French word for " fox " and goupil is now dialectal or archaic.

He also projected a translation of Herodotus, and published a specimen, in which he attempted to imitate archaic French ; but he did not live to carry out this plan.

The Portuguese and Spanish compadre ( literally, " co-father ") and comadre (" co-mother "), the French commère and compère, and the archaic meaning of the English word gossip ( from godsib, " god-sibling "), describe these relationships.

Its French name derives from the archaic term carré long, literally meaning a " long square ", or oblong-a reference to the building's shape.

It is a Latin transliteration from the koine Greek word ( ho aion ), from the archaic ( aiwon ).

The second part,, means " faith, word of honour ; religious faith, belief " ( archaic English troth " loyalty, honesty, good faith ").

It has been suggested that the town's name comes from an archaic word in the Cornish " bod " ( meaning a dwelling ; the later word is " bos ") and a contraction of " menegh " ( monks ).

The word computation has an archaic meaning ( from its Latin etymological roots ), but the word has come back in use with the arising of a new scientific discipline: computer science.

(" Cordwainer " is an archaic word for " A worker in cordwain or cordovan leather ; a shoemaker ", and a " smith " is " One who works in iron or other metals ; esp.

" The semantics of this Chinese word resemble English virtue, which developed from a ( now archaic ) sense of " inner potency " or " divine power " ( as in " healing virtue of a drug ") to the modern meaning of " moral excellence " or " goodness.

Uses of the word " forest " in English to denote any uninhabited area of non-enclosure are now considered archaic.

By the start of the fourteenth century the word appeared in English texts, indicating all three senses: the most common one, the legal term and the archaic usage.

Due to its similarity to an oblique minuscule " y ", an actual " Y " is substituted in modern pseudo-old-fashioned usage as in " Ye Olde Curiositie Shoppe "; the first word means and should be pronounced " the ", not " ye " ( archaic form of " you ").

Marcello Durante links " Homeros " to an epithet of Zeus as " god of the assemblies " and argues that behind the name lies the echo of an archaic word for " reunion ", similar to the later Panegyris, denoting a formal assembly of competing minstrels.

Han () meant " great " in archaic Korean, while geul () is the native Korean word for " script ".

Many of the loughs in Northern England have also previously been called " meres " ( a Northern English dialect word for " lake " and an archaic Standard English word meaning " a lake that is broad in relation to its depth ") such as the Black Lough in Northumberland.

Azymes is an archaic English word for matzah, derived from the Koine Greek word " ἄζυμος " ( ázymos: " unleavened ") for unfermented bread in Biblical times.

Some Newfoundland English differs from General Canadian English in vowel pronunciation ( e. g., in much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair are homophones ), in morphology and syntax ( e. g., in Newfoundland the word bes is sometimes used in place of the normally conjugated forms of to be to describe continual actions or states of being, as in that rock usually bes under water instead of that rock is usually under water, but normal conjugation of to be is used in all other cases ; bes is likely a carryover of British Somerset usage with Irish grammar ) or Cornish, and in preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers ( e. g., in Newfoundland that play was right boring and that play was some boring both mean " that play was very boring ").

According to Joseph Anglade, a philologist and specialist of medieval literature who helped impose the then archaic term Occitan as the sole correct name, the word Lemosin was first used to designate the language at the beginning of the 13th century by Catalan troubadour Raimon Vidal de Besalú in his Razós de trobar

According to Pherecydes of Syros, the second element of his name is derived from, an archaic word for " tree ".

It has been proposed that Sámi ( presumably borrowed from the Proto-Finnic word ), Häme ( Finnish for Tavastia ) (< Proto-Finnic * šämä, the second ä still being found in the archaic derivation Hämäläinen ), and perhaps Suomi ( Finnish for Finland ) (< * sōme -/ sōma -, compare suomalainen, supposedly borrowed from a Proto-Germanic source * sōma-from Proto-Baltic * sāma -, in turn borrowed from Proto-Finnic * šämä ) are of the same origin and ultimately borrowed from the Baltic word * žēmē, meaning " land ".

In Norwegian, the Sámi are today referred to by the Norwegianized form same, whereas the word lapp would be considered archaic and pejorative.

Scholars describe the word sharia as an archaic Arabic word denoting " pathway to be followed ", or " path to the water hole ".

In 1995, one of the oldest hominids, representing a possible link between Homo erectus and an archaic Homo sapiens was found in Buya, Eritrea by Italian scientists dated to over 1 million years old ( the oldest of its kind ), providing a link between hominids and the earliest humans.

It includes some Inuit and First Nations words ( for example tabanask, a kind of sled ), preserved archaic English words no longer found in other English dialects ( for example pook, a mound of hay ), Irish language survivals like sleveen and angishore, compound words created from English words to describe things unique to Newfoundland ( for example stun breeze, a wind of at least 20 knots ( 37 km / h )), English words which have undergone a semantic shift ( for example rind, the bark of a tree ), and unique words whose origins are unknown ( for example diddies, a nightmare ).

From the towns, from the counties as wholes, and from many of its ancient Lordships, the crown was entitled to archaic dues in kind, such as honey.

Bust titled ' Solon ' ( National Museum, Naples ). This realistic representation of Solon bears little resemblance to the kind of sculpture that was produced in the archaic age.

The kind of lofty and stately poetry that celebrated the achievements of these archaic aristocrats was within the reach of ' The Cean nightingale ', yet he seems to have been more at home in verses of a humbler and lighter strain, even venturing on folksiness and humour.

It belongs to the kind known as speaking inscriptions, widely in use in archaic times.