Talk:endizen
Latest comment: 8 months ago by This, that and the other in topic RFV discussion: July–August 2023
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Something funny is going on here.
- OED has a run-on entry under its en- entry for "endizen", glossed as "to set forth", with a single quotation: "What so els Occurrants..may interrupt..Our Penne shall not endenyzen." But that word looks more like endenizen.
- The word dizen is concerned with dressing, decking out with clothes etc. It is surely not possible that en- + dizen could mean "set forth".
- There are a couple of hits for endizened on Google Books where it is used adjectivally alongside the word naturalised, suggesting it is being used with a similar sense.
Mysterious. This, that and the other (talk) 05:49, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
- Oh, and we even gloss endenizen as "to naturalise"! So endizen(ed) is presumably just an error for endenizen(ed), and the OED's entry with its "set forth" gloss is spurious. The error dates back to NED (presumably somebody just wrote the word down incorrectly) and somebody at some point since has noticed the error in the quote, but failed to amend the entry itself. This, that and the other (talk) 06:50, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
RFV-failed, an error in NED. This, that and the other (talk) 23:46, 13 August 2023 (UTC)