Archaisms are beautiful, although not modern

The word "archaism" comes from the ancient Greek "arhos" - the ancient one. Archaisms are obsolete words. Nevertheless, we face them daily.

Words-archaisms can, although rarely, be used in everyday speech, and we will not have any problems with understanding what has been said. For example, "if", "eye", "finger" - everyone understands exactly what values are hidden behind these words. But in everyday speech, we will most likely use their modern analogues "if", "eye" and "finger".

Scientists-philologists divide archaisms into several groups. There are lexical archaisms. This means that the word simply acquired a modern synonym, quite different in sound from the original. Lanita became a cheek, a man, a shuitsa with her left hand. The above "if" became "if". Sometimes, as in the case of the Shuya, the word changed very much. In this case, the dictionary of archaisms will come to the aid.

Another group of archaisms is even more interesting. These are semantic archaisms. The word was preserved in the language, but changed its meaning. For example, this is the "belly". Now this word means a very specific part of the body. But archaism "belly" means life. Therefore, the ancient heroes were ready to "put the stomach" in battle, in the sense of perishing.

Phonetic archaisms are the third group. The meaning of the word is preserved, but it is not pronounced exactly as before, but very similar, in accordance with modern phonetic norms. For example, there was a "daughter" - became "daughter", there was "hail" - became "city" and so on.

The most interesting type of archaisms is word-building. It is a word that has retained its meaning, but is formed quite differently. A typical example of such archaism is the word "shepherd". His modern sound is a shepherd. But the origin is obvious - both of them come from the verb "mouth."

Often one can find archaisms in proverbs and stable phrases: "an eye for an eye", "one as a finger". They are very popular among poets, writers and the general writing fraternity. Who really loves archaisms is those who come up with names. The names of food, commercial structures and projects are simply abounding in archaisms.

The archaism taken to the place can give additional inspiration to the speaker's words. They love archaisms and satirists, and for the same reason - inappropriate pathos causes a smile and laughter. For obvious reasons, there are many archaisms in books and films on historical themes, as well as in areas that differ conservatism. Palms of primacy in the use of archaisms are kept by clergymen, since the modernization of the text of prayers is extremely rare.

The presence of archaisms, of course, is not a feature of only the Russian language. There are plenty of them in English too. This, by the way, greatly complicates the work of translators, especially translators of poetry. It is not enough to understand the meaning of a word, it is necessary to choose its Russian analogue, and it is also desirable to be archaic.

Archaisms should be distinguished from historicisms. Archaisms are obsolete words, but the objects, phenomena, events that they designate, have not disappeared anywhere and surround us to this day. Historicisms, on the contrary, denote objects and phenomena that have emerged from everyday life. For example, armor, pischal, grind.