Talk:balen

Request for verification
I have no idea what is meant with the "etymologies 2 and 3". I do not know any connection with dancing (that is bal - bals, not baal imho). A baal is a stack of something, e.g. hay or tobacco. The latter explains the verb. People tried to grow all sorts of weeds during the World Wars to imitate tobacco and had bales of useless stuff. This led to
 * Dutch


 * ik heb er tabak van - I've got more than enough of it
 * ik heb er balen tabak van - I've got it up to here
 * ik heb er de balen van - same meaning

Then it turned into a verb


 * ik baal ervan

etc.

I think there is only one etymology of this though.

Jcwf 15:38, 20 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree with Jcwf. I took the liberty to google-image the word and none of the images depicted any form of balls or containers. As usual, Verbo has failed to provide any evidence to attest the changes. I vote to remove the second and third etymologies. Here is a link to Van Dale for balen Jamesjiao 05:56, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

RFV failed, etymology sections 2 and 3 removed. —Ruakh TALK 12:37, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

RFV discussion: July 2021–May 2022
RFV-sense of "to act up, usually from frustration". I doubt this can be attested as a distinct sense. I would say balen usually isn't an action, but rather a state of mind. The WNT does not have any actual attestations for its additional military senses, only references. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  08:53, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

RFV failed - I've also never seen this sense used myself. Seems completely unattested and made-up (or extremely fringe?) Amadeus1999 (talk) 15:03, 5 May 2022 (UTC)