Category:Old Norse terms by usage

Old Norse terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Old Norse archaic terms: Old Norse terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Old Norse derogatory terms: Old Norse terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Old Norse ecclesiastical terms: Old Norse terms used only by religious figures.
• Category:Old Norse endearing terms: Old Norse terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Old Norse hapax legomena: Old Norse terms that are attested only once in the entire corpus.
• Category:Old Norse higher register terms: Old Norse terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Old Norse informal terms: Old Norse terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Old Norse nonstandard terms: Old Norse terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Old Norse offensive terms: Old Norse terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Old Norse poetic terms: Old Norse terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Old Norse terms with archaic senses: Old Norse terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Old Norse terms with obsolete senses: Old Norse terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Old Norse terms with rare senses: Old Norse rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Old Norse vulgarities: Old Norse terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.