Talk:pontus

RFV discussion: October–November 2020

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pontus

"overweight person". Possible slang, but I've never heard of it and it seems Google doesn't give anything either. — surjection ⟨??⟩ 18:03, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

I find it strange, too. I think I may have heard it as child from my cousins living in Helsinki, but if it ever was used in this sense, it seems to have gone out of fashion. Could be a variant of köntys used by someone somewhere, but as neither of us cannot find evidence, delete as unattestable. --Hekaheka (talk) 09:35, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

RFV-deleted — surjection ⟨??⟩ 13:07, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

@Surjection, Hekaheka: Could it be a Finnish pronunciation of Latin pondus (“weight”)? —Mahāgaja · talk 13:40, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Possibly, but the editor that added it has an unhealthy obsession with (wrongly) connecting Finnish and Latin words etymologically, and I wouldn't put it past him to make up a word like this. Regardless, if it's not attestable, it shouldn't have an entry. — surjection ⟨??⟩ 14:05, 27 November 2020 (UTC)