Talk:ravenous

RFC discussion: June 2012–September 2017
"Eager for prey or gratification." Is this meant to be praise or gratification? In any event, given the citation, is this correct anyway? Mglovesfun (talk) 09:45, 26 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Looks good now--WF on Holiday (talk) 16:15, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

so... nothing to do with the bird?
I'd always assumed this to be a transparent derivation from raven, but I see now that that's impossible. I'd even been pronouncing it wrong all this time. I wonder how common the misconception is. I wonder what the true etymology is .... our trail stops at Old French and fr.wiktionary seems not to have it at all. A link with ravine seems possible, despite the wide semantic difference between the words, as it seems both words have evolved along different paths. — Soap — 15:06, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
 * A friend has shown me EtymOnline, which I honestly forgot about .... their claim is that it is indeed cognate to ravine. — Soap — 18:36, 17 April 2023 (UTC)