Talk:eale
Latest comment: 2 years ago by This, that and the other in topic RFV discussion: March 2021–April 2022
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Latin. Tagged by 2003:DE:3735:4142:28A6:BAA0:1C0C:1853 on 15 March, not listed: “for gender & inflection. Reference has: "ĕălē , ēs, f.", although this could be made-up as well ...” J3133 (talk) 06:07, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
- This seems to be a hapax with no information about inflection or gender to be inferred from the source text. I'm not sure of the purpose for this RFV, as the entry previously did not make any claims about inflection or gender. This, that and the other (talk) 03:32, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
- "the entry previously did not make any claims about inflection" - it did and does: "indeclinable" ("same form in all cases") is such a statement as it means it's not only nom./acc./voc. eale, but also gen./dat./abl. eale. However the reference states, the gen. is eales. Probably, no gen./dat./abl. is attested, so both indeclinable and gen. -es might be possible, but none can be proven. And then correct wordings are "inflection unknown", "genitive, dative and ablative unattested" or "hapax legomenon" (with the implication the inflection is unknown). --2003:DE:371E:8003:E947:6970:5154:145B 05:25, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
RFV-resolved, spurious headword information removed and a Declension section added with an explanation. This, that and the other (talk) 10:23, 2 April 2022 (UTC)