Didn't even English have a bunch of words that were lost as time went by? We do have quite a few words in Lithuanian (e.g. for maternal/paternal branches and m

Didn't even English have a bunch of words that were lost as time went by? We do have quite a few words in Lithuanian (e.g. for maternal/paternal branches and more detailed words for "X in law"). But it was getting simplified in the past few decades. I've heard quite a few words that I couldn't describe without looking at the dictionary.