Talk:lin

RFV discussion: May 2020

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lin

RFV of the water-related senses (ety 2): "a pool", "a waterfall", "a steep ravine". I added all the citations I could find, which are all of the "waterfall" sense, but many of them seem to actually be Scots (and one seems to be the proper name of a specific area of water). Btw, the EDD also has this as "linch (pin)" with enough citations that, if we could find one or two more, that (etymologically unrelated) sense might be addable. - -sche (discuss) 22:07, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Aha, I find more citations when I search for the spelling linn, though many (including those given in the EDD) are still Scots. I've made that the lemma entry (it also matches the etymon), although lin and lyn still need English citations showing their existence as alternative spellings. I will add what I can find to lyn soon. For lin, we will need to ascertain how many of the citations that exist (several of which I added) are English vs Scots. - -sche (discuss) 03:44, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

This rings a bell... got a feeling these senses came from Webster 1913 (which doesn't automatically pass them of course, but may suggest some amount of legitimacy). Equinox ◑ 19:32, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

I did manage to find adequate citations under the spelling linn, so the lexeme itself is real. I wonder if it was lemmatized at lin simply because that's the alphabetically first of the various spellings, though not the most common (or because some dictionaries, like the EDD, lemmatize it as "lin(n" with a half-parenthetized n). - -sche (discuss) 23:47, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 22:57, 31 May 2020 (UTC)