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tiber, blōt which meant "sacrifice". In Old English there were many groups of synonyms the differentiation of which became irrelevant in Middle English. Therefore some of the synonyms fell out of use: Old English here, fierd, weord indicated an armed force, an army. The distinction between the synonyms was lost when they were all replaced by the Middle borrowings from French army, troop.
The English vocabulary suffered considerable losses when a whole stylistic stratum of words, the specific Old English vocabulary, went out of use together with the genre of old English poetry. Those were numerous poetic synonyms of ordinary neutral words, stock metaphors and traditional "kennings".
Many words current in Middle English fell out of use and became obsolete in new English: Middle English
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