Talk:grimsir

RFV discussion: December 2023–April 2024
Our citation is for grim sire Fond of sanddunes (talk) 17:17, 8 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Webster must have got it from somewhere; so presumably another edition of Burton had grimsir. May well be a nonce word though. Equinox ◑ 18:30, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Most dictionaries have a habit of normalising the spelling of their lemmas. Even OED uses this spelling, despite not having a single cite for the univerbation.
 * Richard Chevenix Trench says grimsir is a word he "meet[s] everywhere in our old authors" and gives a quote from Holland's Pliny as an example. However, it's clear that he has modernised Holland's spelling: the original text had grim sir. This, that and the other (talk) 00:20, 9 December 2023 (UTC)


 * RFV failed P. Sovjunk (talk) 20:39, 25 April 2024 (UTC)