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Originally Posted by Saurondil
## If there is a more elegant way of referring to (what are called) charm, colour, & quarks, so much the better Is there an Old English term for "baryonic matter" ? Maybe a kenning would work.... "Atom" should be easy to Old Anglicise - but what of "physics" ? Honourable mention of Democritus, Epicurus & Lucretius would seem to be called for...
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Okay, some samples from my glossary:
particle: grot
atom: mot (etymologically, this is just the modern English word 'mote')
quark: cwarc ('quark' is ultimately just a nonsense word made up by James Joyce, so I simply spelled it as the Anglo-Saxons would have)
physics: andweorc-cunnung (literally 'substance-science')
physicist: andweorc-wita (literally 'substance-scholar')
matter: andweorc
energy: weorc
charmed quark: galdorcwarc (literally 'sorcery-quark')
proton: formagrot ('first-particle', following the etymology of 'proton' in Greek)
neutron: unbehlæstgrot ('uncharged-particle')
electron: spearcagrot ('spark-particle')
baryon: þricwarc ('three-quark', as a baryon is composed of three quarks)
'Baryonic matter' would then be 'þricwarclic andweorc'.