You&#x27;re right, but when people began to hear it again in the 20th century, they didn&#x27;t think &quot;ah, I know that word! It&#x27;s Old English.&quot; It wasn&#x27;t, at the beginning of the 20th Century, an English word at all.<p>I&#x27;m not sure reintroducing a word from a long-dead language (even if it&#x27;s an antecedent to your own) is much different from just making a new word up, other than it might sound a bit better if the language is related. Words can come from anywhere; why not invent the ones you need? Laser radar quark...