The spelling Ἀπόλλων had almost superseded all other forms by the beginning of the common era, but the Doric form Απέλλων is more archaic, derived from an earlier * Απέλjων.

" Amarant " is a more correct, albeit archaic form, chiefly used in poetry.

72 accounts for the island's archaic name Ortygia by asserting that Zeus transformed Leto into a quail ( ortux ) in order to prevent Hera from finding out his infidelity, and Kenneth McLeish suggested further that in quail form Leto would have given birth with as few birth-pains as a mother quail suffers when it lays an egg.

" This entry is all that is known of these Briton kings ; their names are in an archaic form that makes it very likely that this annal derives from a much older written source.

The town's name ( with the archaic spelling ) continues to form part of the title to The Royal Irish Regiment ( 27th ( Inniskilling ) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment ).

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 ").

It is considered archaic now, as the terms " acidic " and " basic rock " were based on an incorrect idea, dating from the 19th century, that silicic acid was the chief form of silicon occurring in rocks.

For example, he followed Petrarch ( and Dante ) in the unsuccessful championing of an archaic and deeply allusive form of Latin poetry.

In Greek, Héktōr is a derivative of the verb ékhein, archaic form hékhein, " to have " or " to hold ".

The Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo makes the monster Typhaon the offspring of archaic Hera in her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous version of Hephaestus, and whelped in a cave in Cilicia.

MacDiarmid attempted to revive the Scots language as a medium for serious literature in poetic works including " A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle " ( 1936 ), developing a form of Synthetic Scots that combined different regional dialects and archaic terms.

" hair of the eye "); modern mieru (" to be visible ") and kikoeru (" to be audible ") retain what may have been a frequentative suffix-ru ( kikoyu > kikoyuru ( the attributive form, which slowly replaced the plain form starting in the late Heian period ) > kikoeru ( as all shimo-nidan verbs in modern Japanese did )); and the genitive particle ga remains in intentionally archaic speech.

He wrote that " the historical trend of our age is the fatal crisis which capitalist production has undergone in the European and American countries where it has reached its highest peak, a crisis that will end in its destruction, in the return of modern society to a higher form of the most archaic type — collective production and appropriation ".

In 2001, the journal Ugarit-Forschungen, Band 32 published the article " The First Inscription in Punic — Vowel Differences in Linear A and B " by Jan Best, claiming to demonstrate how and why Linear A notates an archaic form of Phoenician.

The statue's form of construction was unusual, as the use of chryselephantine was by this time regarded as archaic.

Advocates of linguistic polygenesis do not accept the notion of a fully developed Proto-Human language and consider the world's language families independent developments of a proto-linguistic form of communication used by archaic Homo sapiens.

Demeter was depicted in her archaic form, a Medusa type with a horse's head with snaky hair, holding a dove and a dolphin.

The Ardhamagadhi language (" half Magadhi "), an archaic form of the Magadhi language which was used extensively to write Jain scriptures, is often considered to be the definitive form of Prakrit, while others are considered variants thereof.

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

The pre-Classical form of Sanskrit is known as Vedic Sanskrit, with the language of the Rigveda being the oldest and most archaic stage preserved, its oldest core dating back to as early as 1500 BCE.

The term sushi comes from an archaic grammatical form no longer used in other contexts ; literally, sushi means " sour-tasting ", a reflection of its historic fermented roots.

" " Ye " is an archaic or dialectal form of " you " ( nominative plural ).

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

The-dour element, referring to the Burn, means simply ' water ' ( archaic dobur ), and is unconnected to the Scots / English ' dour '.

Czech linguist Václav Machek proposes Slovak verb " vrepiť sa " ( stick to, thrust into ), or its hypothetical anagram " vperiť sa " ( in Czech, archaic verb " vpeřit " means " to thrust violently ") as an etymological background, and thus translates " upír " as " someone who thrusts, bites ".

Bronisław Malinowski describes ritual language as possessing a high " coefficient of weirdness ", by which he means that the language used in ritual is archaic and out of the ordinary, which helps foster the proper mindset to believe in the ritual.

“ Hope ” in the Holy Bible means “ a strong and confident expectation .” Though archaic today in modern terms, hope is akin to trust and a confident expectation ".

" Risi is probably akin to " rise ," and so means " towering person " ( akin to German Riese, Dutch reus, archaic Swedish rese, giant ).

An example is 炷 zhù " candle " ( now archaic, meaning " lampwick "), which was originally a pictograph 主, a character that is now pronounced zhǔ and means " host ".

In Ugaritic, the root dgn also means grain: in Hebrew dāgān, Samaritan dīgan, is an archaic word for grain.

" Monnik " means " monk " and " schier " is an archaic word meaning " grey ", referring to the colour of the monks ' habits.

They represent him further as having made in Venetian painting an advance analogous to that made in Tuscan painting by Leonardo more than twenty years before ; that is, as having released the art from the last shackles of archaic rigidity and placed it in possession of full freedom and the full mastery of its means.

In archaic Russian, the word dacha means something given.

By contrast, " Shout, Sister, Shout " ( 1931 ), written by Clarence Williams in 1929, does tend to foreshadow the rock genre, being described in one music magazine of 2011 as " by no means as archaic as its age ".

In a recent study Zoltán Göncz has pointed out, the authorial injunction to seek ( Quaerendo invenietis ) does not only relate to the riddle canons but to the six-part ricercar as well, whose archaic title also means to seek.

The related term vainglory is now often seen as an archaic synonym for vanity, but originally meant boasting in vain, i. e. unjustified boasting ; although glory is now seen as having an exclusively positive meaning, the Latin term gloria ( from which it derives ) roughly means boasting, and was often used as a negative criticism.

A similar desire to evoke a former age means that archaic place names are frequently used in circumstances where doing so conveys a political or emotional subtext, or when the official new name is not recognised by all ( for example: ' Persia ' rather than ' Iran ', ' Bombay ' rather than ' Mumbai ', ' Madras ' rather than ' Chennai ').

The name is derived from the Romanian archaic form " pre deal " which means " before the hill " or from the Slavic word " predel ", which means " bound ", " limit ".

Huá ( 華 ) means at once " flower " ( archaic ) and " magnificence.

In archaic Russian, the word dacha means something given.

* * Welnos, is reconstructed as a god of cattle from Slavic Veles, and Lithuanian Velnias ( in archaic Lithuanian vėlės means ' shades ' or ' spirits of the departed '), " protector of flocks "; as well as Old Norse Ullr, and Old English Wuldor, and even the Elysian fields in Greek myth and ritual ( according to Jaan Puhvel ).

The word aass is a family name and probably an archaic spelling of ås, which means ridge or low hill.

In some dialects of Lithuanian the supine is used with verbs of motion to indicate purpose, e. g. Moterys eina miestan duonos pirktų, which means The women are going to the town to buy some bread ( more archaic forms are pirktun, pirktum ).