Talk:kaiser

RFV discussion: July 2021
Sense 2 - "an autocrat". Currently has no citations. Tharthan (talk) 20:24, 15 July 2021 (UTC)


 * If we keep this sense, I am inclined to put it at "Kaiser" (with a capital K), as most of what I find uses that. There are enough instances of "kaiser" with various meanings (Kaiser roll, an actual Kaiser), all of which more commonly use "Kaiser", so I think "kaiser" should just be an alt form. Anyway, I could find:
 * Kiwima (talk) 11:04, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Kiwima (talk) 11:04, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Kiwima (talk) 11:04, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Kiwima (talk) 11:04, 17 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Good finds. Especially the 1919 cite, about the Japanese emperor, merges into the "or (rarely) any emperor" sense of Kaiser, which also has a citation of "Louis XIV, the former War-Lord, the Kaiser of France". I wonder if we should split "any emperor" off from the "Germanic emperor" sense and make it part of this "autocrat" sense, like "Any emperor or autocrat or person who exercises or tries to exercise absolute authority."? (Or maybe the wording could be improved or the idea of merging them is no good.) I agree with putting all the definitions at Kaiser. - -sche (discuss) 18:50, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

RFV-resolved. Kiwima (talk) 21:28, 24 July 2021 (UTC)