ARCHAIC WORDS IN ENGLISH CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON MODERN LANGUAGE

This article examines the origin, etymology, and contextual usage of archaic and obsolete words in classical English literature, the types of archaisms, their influence on modern English, as well as their fundamental role in linguistics and their distinction from other linguistic units. The study analyzes archaic lexical units based on the works of 19th-century writers such as Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, revealing their stylistic function in literary texts and the traces they have left in modern English.