Talk:lina

Request for verification
From lina at Requests for verification:

The Spanish wikipedia page was deleted (but for unrelated reasons)- nothing in a cursory google books search and the RAE only has. Can anyone find citations for this? DTLHS (talk) 23:54, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * It's hard to sift through all the false positives from names of people and line-wrap artifacts of words ending in -lina. Given that the user who added it is notorious for guessing/making stuff up, I'm skeptical. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:36, 29 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I have not tried to go through the hits on google books, but ... I only know of the word for flaxseed,  for flax. In Chile, they use the word  to mean coarse wool, and that is the only case that I know of where  is a proper word in Spanish. However, I would expect  to occasionally be used for flaxseed/linseed (even though not standard usage), because changing the gender like this (/) is a common way to name the product or fruit of a plant: / (apple tree vs. an apple), / (fruit on the tree vs. fruit picked for eating), / (banana tree vs. banana), / (orange tree vs. an orange), /, /, /, and so on. But there are exceptions, such as / (pear tree vs. pear), / (fig tree vs. fig). Changing  (flax) to  to make the word for flaxseed is logical even if it is improper, and it would not surprise me if it happens occasionally in some places. —Stephen (Talk) 16:05, 29 September 2013 (UTC)


 * RFV failed - no citations provided. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 15:48, 5 January 2014 (UTC)