Talk:neafs
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Ioaxxere in topic RFV discussion: May 2022–February 2023
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Plural of neaf. I imagine neaves as a potential plural too. Pious Eterino (talk) 16:50, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- Evidence for neaves: [1], [2], [3]. This looks like evidence for neafs, assuming the meaning is correct: [4]. This looked promising in OCR, but unfortunately it seems to actually have "neaſs", i.e., "knees": [5]. 70.172.194.25 00:57, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
- I don't have access to the British Newspaper Archive, but here are a couple OCR search results that look like they might be using "neafs" in the requested sense. Archived in case they change. "NORTH SHIELDS POLICE COURT", "TRUTH PUZZLE No. 104" (the latter is a mention). 70.172.194.25 01:39, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
- It seems odd that your RFV-ing words that haven’t yet been created. It seems that you’ve justified creating neaves, so why not do so? I would suggest adding another definition to it, namely the plural form of neave which we have defined as an alternative form of neve, a rare and possibly obsolete word for nephew. neafs seems like a real word too but you could create it and add a couple of cites anyway and if anyone then wants to challenge it on RFV they could (I wouldn’t personally bother). Overlordnat1 (talk) 07:28, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not the one who added the RfV tag or started this section. 70.172.194.25 16:16, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
- I have added the quotation of neafs (“NORTH SHIELDS POLICE COURT”) 70.172.194.25 found to neaf. J3133 (talk) 07:46, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
- It seems odd that your RFV-ing words that haven’t yet been created. It seems that you’ve justified creating neaves, so why not do so? I would suggest adding another definition to it, namely the plural form of neave which we have defined as an alternative form of neve, a rare and possibly obsolete word for nephew. neafs seems like a real word too but you could create it and add a couple of cites anyway and if anyone then wants to challenge it on RFV they could (I wouldn’t personally bother). Overlordnat1 (talk) 07:28, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
- Good decision. I’ve now made things interesting and created neaves and neafs. Do we have to find 3 quotes for every alternative spelling and plural form though? Surely we could just add all the quotes we find to neaf and declare this to be RFV-resolved? Overlordnat1 (talk) 08:31, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
Since evidence has been found for both plurals, I will close this as RFV Pass Ioaxxere (talk) 03:56, 9 February 2023 (UTC)