Talk:hjirneimels

The WFT has this as a derivative of miel. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:34, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but then why is it showing up as instead? If it was calqued, there would have been something existing in Frisian to work with. —Rua (mew) 10:45, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * It's deffo not anything I'm sure about, but vowel reduction due to not being stressed could be an explanation to investigate if you're interested in it. At the least the WFT have other entries with -mels, so it could alternatively be a suffix. Or would you rather have it as a nativised borrowing? ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:09, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, like I said, if it's a calque, then it was made out of native elements based on an example in another language. I suppose they looked to other words with this element, but I think it goes too far to say that  is actually a suffix in Frisian. It only appears on a few words, where it indeed results from vowel reduction, but that's not a productive process in modern Frisian. —Rua (mew) 11:34, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * So then  should be fine, right? ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  08:05, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I may have found more clues. This entry on WFT says that is an alternative form of, and even gives the combination , with citation, as an example use. That seems much more likely to be the source than anything we've come up with. —Rua (mew) 14:42, 15 April 2019 (UTC)