Category:Icelandic terms by usage

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• Category:Icelandic superseded forms: Icelandic forms that have been superseded by other forms due to changes in spelling conventions.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.