Talk:bärja

The letter ä was not used in Old Swedish ( was its predecessor), so it seems unlikely that this word was spelled like this, if it even existed in the first place. Glades12 (talk) 14:31, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
 * SAOB mentions "fsv. bäria(s)" in the etymology for . I don't know SAOB's policy for altering or normalizing spelling of Old Swedish. If I search at Fornsvensk Lexikalisk Databas I can also find a spelling bäria. Again, I don't know if they change æ or ae to ä.  Can you easily type æ on a Swedish keyboard? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 19:52, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The Swedish Academy doesn't seem to treat reconstructed and actually attested terms differently in its etymologies, so I take those with a grain of salt. (I'm not entirely sure how they approach spelling, though.) If provably existed, then this entry should be moved to that title. As far as I know, æ hasn't been natively used since the 16th century in Swedish, so it's pretty hard (though not impossible) to type on Android and HP keyboards. Glades12 (talk) 17:13, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Here is a mention as æ, from Svensk etymologisk ordbok: "bardalek sammansatt av fsv. bardaghi, isl. bardagi strid (av bari-, till stammén i fsv. bæria, isl. berja, slå; jfr baron)". There is a similar mention in Svenskt dialektlexikon.  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:29, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I think the entry is intended to be Swedish, and not Old Swedish ? This makes sense given the etymology. I've updated the entry header to "Swedish". Please revert if this is incorrect. Leasnam (talk) 06:12, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

RFV resolved Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:42, 5 February 2021 (UTC)