Category:Icelandic terms by usage
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Icelandic terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
- Category:Icelandic archaic terms: Icelandic terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Icelandic childish terms: Icelandic terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
- Category:Icelandic colloquialisms: Icelandic terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
- Category:Icelandic dated terms: Icelandic terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
- Category:Icelandic derogatory terms: Icelandic terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
- Category:Icelandic dialectal terms: Icelandic terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
- Category:Icelandic endearing terms: Icelandic terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
- Category:Icelandic formal terms: Icelandic terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
- Category:Icelandic higher register terms: Icelandic terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
- Category:Icelandic humorous terms: Icelandic terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
- Category:Icelandic informal terms: Icelandic terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
- Category:Icelandic nonstandard terms: Icelandic terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
- Category:Icelandic offensive terms: Icelandic terms that are typically considered to offend people.
- Category:Icelandic poetic terms: Icelandic terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
- Category:Icelandic polite terms: Icelandic polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
- Category:Icelandic proscribed terms: Icelandic terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
- Category:Icelandic short forms: Icelandic terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
- Category:Icelandic slang: Icelandic colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
- Category:Icelandic superseded forms: Icelandic forms that have been superseded by other forms due to changes in spelling conventions.
- Category:Icelandic terms with archaic senses: Icelandic terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Icelandic terms with historical senses: Icelandic terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
- Category:Icelandic terms with obsolete senses: Icelandic terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Icelandic terms with rare senses: Icelandic rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
- Category:Icelandic terms with uncommon senses: Icelandic uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
- Category:Icelandic trademarks: Icelandic terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
- Category:Icelandic uncommon terms: Icelandic uncommonly used terms.
- Category:Icelandic vulgarities: Icelandic terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
Subcategories
This category has the following 27 subcategories, out of 27 total.
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C
- Icelandic childish terms (0 c, 18 e)
- Icelandic colloquialisms (0 c, 82 e)
D
- Icelandic dated terms (0 c, 99 e)
- Icelandic derogatory terms (0 c, 67 e)
- Icelandic dialectal terms (0 c, 2 e)
E
- Icelandic endearing terms (0 c, 7 e)
F
- Icelandic formal terms (0 c, 13 e)
H
- Icelandic humorous terms (0 c, 25 e)
I
N
O
P
- Icelandic polite terms (0 c, 1 e)
- Icelandic proscribed terms (0 c, 4 e)
S
- Icelandic short forms (0 c, 3 e)
- Icelandic superseded forms (0 c, 2 e)
T
- Icelandic terms with archaic senses (0 c, 122 e)
- Icelandic terms with historical senses (0 c, 34 e)
- Icelandic terms with rare senses (0 c, 160 e)
- Icelandic terms with uncommon senses (0 c, 26 e)