Somebody’s recent post got me thinking about Sinology words in English… that collection of terms dragged up from obsolescence to translate specific classical Chinese ones. I’m thinking of caitiff for 虜 (barbarian with overtones of slave), marchmount for 嶽 (mountain, but mystical)…

…and enfeoff for 封 (give someone a fiefdom). Others? Marchmount seems like it was maybe coined for the purpose but the others seem to have been rescued from obscurity by our field.