Talk:squiry
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Kiwima in topic RFV discussion: December 2020–August 2021
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Not convinced La más guay (talk) 22:50, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
- It's a Middle English word that survived into the 16th century and we can keep it because there are about 8 uses if you combine the two eras. The quote you were looking to date appears in OED as "1525 Ld. Berners Froiss II clxxi. 505. It was nedefull for them within to make good defence, for against them was the floure of chyvalry and squyry." Vox Sciurorum (talk) 00:01, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
- Cited with a single modern English quotation as a continuation of its ancestor Middle English squierie. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:57, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
- not cited. We still only have two cites in Modern English. Kiwima (talk) 22:00, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
cited (I found a third cite) Kiwima (talk) 20:24, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 00:11, 12 August 2021 (UTC)