Talk:jot

Added definition of jot "to go quickly" I have seen this usage in literature (e.g. Enid Blyton). I found multiple occurences of this usage on the Internet (google "jot over"). Interestingly, this usage was not in any free online dictionary I checked. Could someone check the OED on this?


 * Hmm. I thought it was rubbish and reverted it. Afterwards I checked the OED - it has it as "obsolete or dialect" - "To jog, jolt, bump". (without the "over") (reverted revert). SemperBlotto 22:45, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

RFV discussion: August 2014–February 2015
Rfv-sense: "to go quickly" Added back in 2008 by an anon user with this explanation: "New page: Added definition of jot "to go quickly" I have seen this usage in literature (e.g. Enid Blyton). I found multiple occurences of this usage on the Internet (google "jot over"). Interesting…". The usex seems to be made up by himself, and it has been cited on dozens of websites. The little usage I found in BGC would indicate that "jot over" has been used to mean to drop by (we didn't jot over that bar yet) or to go through (we jotted over the records of last 3 years). Works of Enid Blyton did not appear among 120 first hits. --Hekaheka (talk) 08:15, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * There was short discussion on this on Feedback pages. Here's one comment:
 * Perhaps not erroneous, but it certainly seems to be rare. I searched b.g.c for "jot over" and found nothing relevant. Then I searched for "jotted over" and found only two relevant hits. "Jotted over" most commonly seems to mean the same as "dotted over", e.g. "He had strolled away to a little headland, jotted over with rocks and aged tree-trunks" and "Here also the groups representing the passages included in this portion of sacred history are jotted over the field, often interfering with one another." Then I searched for "jotting over" and found only hits meaning "jutting over", i.e. protruding over. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:56, 13 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Sounds suspicious to me. Perhaps confusion of jog with trot?! Equinox ◑ 08:38, 14 August 2014 (UTC)


 * There is also jolt over/jolted over which seems to fit the meaning indicated. Perhaps a misspelling? Leasnam (talk) 03:56, 17 August 2014 (UTC)


 * RFV failed. Equinox ◑ 23:03, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Franconian etymology
What does (*)guod mean? Is it attested or not? — Ungoliant (falai) 04:31, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * It means that I don't know if it's attested. I'm not aware of an attestation, but I consider it likely that it exists. I've used this (*)... in a number of Central Franconian and Luxembourgish etymologies. Basically, it means that I'll have to check it. In the case of guod this will be easy, because the "Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch", covering all attested Old High German, has been published to the letter J. Kolmiel (talk) 14:42, 4 May 2016 (UTC)