Talk:kanyemba

RFV discussion: October–November 2019
Sense: a disease. But in actual fact appears to be a place name, Kanyemba. Equinox ◑ 20:31, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
 * It also appears to be a surname. As for the disease, all I could find was:
 * plus a similar mention in a Spanish medical dictionary. Kiwima (talk) 22:13, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
 * It is not unheard of that a disease is named after an area where it has been observed. Two other book occurrences (snippet view only):, . --Lambiam 22:19, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * So now we have three books with the term, but all are a bit mention-y, simply giving the name as another name for chiufa. What do others think? Is this cited? Kiwima (talk) 22:27, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * This source, apparently one chapter from a longer treatise published in a journal (the excerpt not identifying the title and author of the article), explicitly calls the term an African name; also, it describes the disease as having disappeared after the abolition of the slave trade, which may explain the scarcity of references. The synonym chiufa is equally rare. I can find no evidence that these are English words, just like kokoromaka is not an English word, even though occurring in an English text. So we are not even sure, if kept, what should be the L2 language (Chichewa?). It appears to me that this cannot be verified in accordance with our standards for inclusion. --Lambiam 16:12, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
 * This source, apparently one chapter from a longer treatise published in a journal (the excerpt not identifying the title and author of the article), explicitly calls the term an African name; also, it describes the disease as having disappeared after the abolition of the slave trade, which may explain the scarcity of references. The synonym chiufa is equally rare. I can find no evidence that these are English words, just like kokoromaka is not an English word, even though occurring in an English text. So we are not even sure, if kept, what should be the L2 language (Chichewa?). It appears to me that this cannot be verified in accordance with our standards for inclusion. --Lambiam 16:12, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 18:57, 14 November 2019 (UTC)