Talk:leefkyn

RFV discussion: June–August 2022
I don't see any use. Pious Eterino (talk) 16:43, 8 June 2022 (UTC)


 * OED has a single use ("leefekyn"), but it is post-1500, so this entry can't even be converted to ME. This, that and the other (talk) 01:19, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * 1500 is a fairly arbitrary line; I’d say that if there are only a handful of post-1500 uses and nothing thereafter, that shouldn’t stop the entry from being relabelled as ME. — Sgconlaw (talk) 05:56, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * It's true that the single use in OED is from 1540, which is close to 1500, but with no pre-1500 uses I would struggle to see this as belonging to ME, especially as the word arises in translation of a Dutch writer and it is a transparent Dutch borrowing (although the text being translated was apparently in Latin). This, that and the other (talk) 10:20, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah. Seems like a plausible construction from +, but the term doesn’t seem to appear in the MED. Well, if there’s only one quotation it fails CFI and we transfer it to the “Citations:” namespace. — Sgconlaw (talk) 11:31, 10 June 2022 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed (only one citation has been mentioned and it's not even for this spelling). I can't find anything for the given sense, "darling". I found this mention(?) of a different word:
 * The Century Dictionary, although their only citation is the same 1540 citation of Palsgrave as everyone else mentions, chooses to lemmatize this as "liefkin†, n. [Early mod. E. leefekyn, < MD. liefken (=G. liebchen); as lief + -kin.] Darling. Palsgrave, Acolastus." I can't find any English uses of that spelling, either. (There is a mention of it as a Dutch word in Deepest Springs: A Story of Love During the Apartheid Years: “This liefkin word? It is definitely not Afrikaans.”) - -sche (discuss) 17:39, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The Century Dictionary, although their only citation is the same 1540 citation of Palsgrave as everyone else mentions, chooses to lemmatize this as "liefkin†, n. [Early mod. E. leefekyn, < MD. liefken (=G. liebchen); as lief + -kin.] Darling. Palsgrave, Acolastus." I can't find any English uses of that spelling, either. (There is a mention of it as a Dutch word in Deepest Springs: A Story of Love During the Apartheid Years: “This liefkin word? It is definitely not Afrikaans.”) - -sche (discuss) 17:39, 31 August 2022 (UTC)