These Are The 10 Awesome Historical Words We Should Bring Back

Languages are an ever evolving matter. Their substance are words and their core are all of the grammatical rules. As time passes by, they grow with the addition of new words. Older words that are no longer used are shed like old skin, only to be written down in older dictionaries. At one point in time, the people speaking the language gradually start morphing it into something else or completely abandon it for something easier to pronounce and over centuries the primary language dies. A language is officially pronounced as dead when there are no original living speakers to practice it. Such languages are Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Norse and many others we might never even know existed.Show more

That doesn’t mean that these languages might never serve us as a way of communication. People have been using Latin and Ancient Greek for centuries to either coin new languages or to enrich the existing vocabulary of a language. In fact, many of the modern words we find in Indo-European languages around the world stem from these two dead languages. Furthermore, scientists have been using them as a form of international language that could be understood by everyone, in order to widen the path for new scientific findings.

Although archaic words are a sign of linguistic evolution, that doesn’t mean that they couldn’t be brought back to life. Many of the words that have been dropped from the vocabulary are quite applicable in modern situations, and we see no reason why they shouldn’t be reintroduced. Here is a list of ten words that would fit in the 21st century like a glove.