Talk:bruikte
Latest comment: 13 years ago by Mglovesfun in topic bruikte
Deletion debate[edit]
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A verb "bruiken" certainly does not exist today in Dutch and I cannot even find any early modern Dutch quotes. E.g. a google search for "hij bruikte" gave this: no hits at all. Google for just "bruikte" gives hits, but they are all hyphen products like ge- bruikte
- Well, actually I did find this. An example of poetic license from 1781 I think. And a mention in an etymological work that "bruiken" got replaced by "gebruiken" as of the 17th cent. I do think a good quote from those days would be called for.
Jcwf 23:01, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
- I am not quite sure, but you seem to be requesting the entry "bruiken" (archaic, to make use of, to use, to have use for) and all its inflected forms for verification: you request that three quotations are provided that attest the forms per WT:CFI#Attestation. If this is right, the first thing to be established is whether the lemma is attestable: bruiken. This should be done in the WT:RFV process rather than in WT:RFD. But you have striked the request, so I am not sure whether you want to withdraw it, or what it is that you would like to do with the request. The lemma "bruiken" was created by CodeCat (talk • contribs) on 11 April 2010 CodeCat, whereas the inflected form "bruikte" has been created by CodeCat's bot. You may want to drop CodeCat a line asking about the source or quotationss of the term. --Dan Polansky 08:56, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
- If you do a search for phrases together with a pronoun you get a few more hits. Interestingly, "ik bruik" gives many contemporary results as well. So I think there is enough evidence that this verb isn't just made up, and has been in active use during the modern Dutch period. —CodeCat 20:41, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Kept, inappropriate nomination. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:28, 16 November 2010 (UTC)