The Word Graveyard
Every word in the database has a buried predecessor — a Latin form, a Persian phrase, an Old English compound — that once walked, then fell. These are their tombstones.
Click any stone for the full obituary: when the ancestor word was coined, when it died, and what killed it. Some perished with empires. Some were murdered by the Norman Conquest. Some are buried in laws.
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