Complex sentence: The term derives from a (now somewhat archaic) word meaning a list or register of any kind: although the documents in a calendar are generally arranged in chronological order, the term has only an indirect relationship to a table of dates.
Split into simpler sentences: The term derives from a (now somewhat archaic) word meaning a list or register of any kind. Although the documents in a calendar are generally arranged in chronological order, the term has only an indirect relationship to a table of dates.