words out, words in

[Joe Pickett]

I'm not sure if parts of speech count, but the usage note at "host" in AHD
says that it

 was used as a verb in Shakespeare's time, but this usage was long obsolete
 when the verb was reintroduced (or perhaps reinvented) in recent years to mean "perform the role of a host."


Joe






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Ask, aks

Greg Pulliam wrote:
>
> A student asked me in class today if I knew of any words that had
> dropped out of English, then had been revived.  I could not come up
> with any.  Can anyone else?
>
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