Talk:mésailler
Latest comment: 4 years ago by PUC
@-sche: Sorry for not answering sooner. It's most likely a mistake for mésallier. PUC – 21:21, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
- Ah, I see. Thanks for identifying the intended word. I did check many of the inflected forms for attestation before creating it, and saw cites, but as you say several turn out to be scannos. This spelling does occur in at least some works, including some old dictionaries, but could be a typo. (In this dictionary, it's clearly a typo as it occurs after mésalliance, and although this/this also has the noun as mésaillance, both come after mésaise, so I guess it's a typo there, too, rather than e.g. an obsolete spelling.) - -sche (discuss) 04:35, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
- @-sche: This quote is curious, though: here it must be mésailler, to rhyme with batailler. PUC – 08:38, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
- Ah, I see. Thanks for identifying the intended word. I did check many of the inflected forms for attestation before creating it, and saw cites, but as you say several turn out to be scannos. This spelling does occur in at least some works, including some old dictionaries, but could be a typo. (In this dictionary, it's clearly a typo as it occurs after mésalliance, and although this/this also has the noun as mésaillance, both come after mésaise, so I guess it's a typo there, too, rather than e.g. an obsolete spelling.) - -sche (discuss) 04:35, 14 April 2020 (UTC)