Reconstruction talk:Old English/windmylen

RFD discussion: March–June 2022
Old English. The existence of a appears to be highly improbable, as I'm not aware of any evidence of windmills in England (or anywhere in Northern Europe) before the late 1100s. There seems to be a general consensus that this is when windmills made their first appearance in these parts; for instance: "" Of course, it's possible that speakers of Old English could've coined to refer to either foreign windmills or some other device, but "could've" isn't a strong enough basis for such a reconstruction. Given the information we have, there's no reason to think they did, as there's nothing stopping from being a ME formation; the various words for "windmill" in the Germanic languages are not evidence against this, as they could easily be parallel formations. Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 10:34, 28 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete. ·~   dictátor · mundꟾ  20:54, 29 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete. Thanks,, it is often forgotten how primitive corn production was in the past. What are the terminologic predecessors? (Because of their methodological deficiency) Wikipedia is doing a terrible job at , even though having a whole list article for types of mills. Randomly distributed content at , , , but they don’t have the original known to the Slavs as , only German Wikipedia —yea, I am noting that we lack not few terms and etymological accuracy in present ones. The term  is a 19th-century invention. Fay Freak (talk) 01:01, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nicodene (talk) 12:48, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

RFD-deleted This, that and the other (talk) 08:05, 24 June 2022 (UTC)