Talk:furth

Is there any way we can state that this word is mostly used in Scots English? Even on the citations page it consists mostly of Scottish quotes. -- Soap 04:36, 10 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Done. DCDuring TALK 11:07, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

I notice this is currently lacking the Etymology, on a quick trip here to check for any interesting details on the word. Right now it would probably be considered Original Research, but I have two observations that might help future wikieditors that pass this way.

1) I experience this word mostly in a legal (or at least 'lawyerly') context, it seems to be preserved mostly in people with a knowledge of caselaw - a well known preserve of older terms that might not normally crop up in more everyday and modernised dialect, and not just in Scots.

2) I would be highly surprised if the etymological source of the word "forth" (mostly as in "to go...", cognate with "to go abroad", in either foreign or outdoorsy senses) cannot be demonstrated as equally applicable here (though there are the occasional coincidental sound-aliked synonyms betwixt Scottish and English, proven to be of differing sources, so it's not a sure assumption to make). It even has a vowel-shift of the right kind to make it ultimately the same word under the different accents (before the scholars and dictionaries set down their own idea of how it is spelt).

But I have no immediate and rigorous citations to add on this, save for my feelings, and so I shall leave this postulation here instead. 62.64.128.36 13:48, 8 March 2020 (UTC)