Talk:earra

RFV discussion: June–August 2016

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earra

Rfv-sense "egg of an ant". I can't find this sense in any of my Irish dictionaries. @Embryomystic: do you remember where you found this? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 09:36, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

I must have been going on this, though I tend to be far more careful, these days, about adding things I only find in that database. embryomystic (talk) 20:30, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

@Embryomystic: The closest thing I can find is the proverb "Ghoidfeadh sé an earra ón seangán, an ubh ón gcorr" (he is a born thief, literally "he would steal goods from the ant, the egg from the heron") in Ó Dónaill's entry for goid. Maybe someone knew that proverb and thought the two objects were parallel and the literal meaning was "the ant-egg from the ant, the (bird's) egg from the heron". But not even Dinneen lists the meaning "ant-egg" for earra. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 20:58, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

@Angr: Fair enough. That seems like a pretty reasonable explanation. I'd be comfortable removing the definition, personally. embryomystic (talk) 21:01, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

 Done —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:23, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

• RFV failed the Irish sense by Angr on 15 June 2016 in diff. --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:05, 7 August 2016 (UTC)