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oldspeak

noun

Etymology

From old + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

  1. inherited from *bʰeh₂g-✻ — “to distribute”
  2. inherited from *spekan✻
  3. derived from *spreg-✻ — “to make a sound, utter, speak”
  4. inherited from *sprekaną✻ — “to speak, make a sound”
  5. inherited from *sprekan✻
  6. inherited from specan — “to speak”
  7. inherited from speke
  8. formed as oldspeak — “old + speak”

Definitions

  1. Standard English, not newspeak

  2. Synonym of Standard English.

    • Newspeak words are divided into three classes, A for words denoting functional concepts of everyday life like eating, and sleeping, preserving many Oldspeak words.

  3. Alternative letter-case form of oldspeak.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for oldspeak. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA