Or a native word may persist in some special sense, e.g., weed, a general term for garment in Shakespeare—
"And there the snake throws her enamel'd skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in."
(Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 2.)
survives in "widow's weeds." Chare, a turn of work—
"the maid that milks
And does the meanest chares."
(Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 15.)
has given us charwoman, and persists as American chore—
"Sharlee was ... concluding the post-prandial chores."
(H. S. Harrison, Queed, Ch. 17.)
Sake, cognate with Ger. Sache, thing, cause, and originally meaning a contention at law, has been replaced by cause, except in phrases beginning with the preposition for. See also bead (p. [74]). Unkempt, uncombed, and uncouth, unknown, are fossil remains of obsolete verb forms.