Talk:maselyn

RFV discussion: February–March 2022

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maselyn

• Obsolete spelling of maslin: a kind of drinking cup.

  Quotation added by Astova to the Middle English entry:

  • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Ryme of Syr Thopas”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

    Made him eke in a maselyn

Changed to Middle English by Astova. J3133 (talk) 21:06, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

OED instead identifies this with maselin (“a drinking bowl of maple”), for which there are no post-Chaucer cites. The term maslin is given as "a vessel made of maslin = a brass-like alloy", which also lacks modern uses (it got a few mentions in Notes and Queries though, and strangely resurfaces in a 1926 military stores catalogue). I'm not sure why they think Chaucer meant a wooden cup rather than a metal one; perhaps a Chaucer scholar or ME expert would know. This, that and the other (talk) 09:12, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed, to move to Middle English This, that and the other (talk) 01:21, 27 March 2022 (UTC)