Talk:mixian

RFV discussion: December 2015
, do you have any evidence for this? As Angr noted, it's not in Bosworth-Toller, and I see other sources refer to it as *mixian, so I don't think it's actually attested anywhere. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 09:03, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I think I found it either here or here  Leasnam (talk) 13:12, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * It is in my dead-tree edition of Clark Hall (equivalent to the first of Leasnam's links). It didn't occur to me to look there before. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 14:40, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I haven't used that dictionary before. I suppose it's reliable at not making things up? It's just that the corpus is so small that it shouldn't be hard to find where a word was actually used, which begs the question of why some people have asterisked it. I can imagine a dictionary-maker putting in mixian on the assumption that it must have existed due to (and similar pairs like askian/axian). —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 17:48, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Some discussion of *mixian. DTLHS (talk) 17:54, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * That's one view, yes... Leasnam (talk) 03:00, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I tried searching B&T for inflected forms and derivations (myxian, mixung, myxung, mixode, gemixod, even micsian) but those are the only 2 he has. Based on the availability of examples of metathesis we have (dox/dosc/dohx; tux/tusc; frosc/forsc/frox/frocx; max/masc, etc.) it's not out of the realm of possibility Leasnam (talk) 03:10, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * It seems quite likely that the form mixian existed in Old English, but it's far less apparent that it's actually attested in the Old English corpus. If a reader is not going to encounter this form and wonder what it means, we probably shouldn't have an entry for it. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 08:55, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I would agree. should be moved to . Leasnam (talk) 11:12, 27 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Done. Which reminds me, is any progress being made on moving reconstructions to the Reconstruction: namespace? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 12:20, 27 December 2015 (UTC)