Talk:terrid

RFV discussion
Rfv-sense "awful,10 times worse than terrible". Believable (à la terrible, horrible, terror, horror, horrid) but AFAICT appears only as an example of a word that could have been formed but has not been. (We are, however, missing a Middle English sense found in Wyclif's Bible: .) &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 18:28, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Tosh. Deleted SemperBlotto 18:31, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Fine by me. We're still missing the enm, though. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 18:33, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * From context, it's clearly a past participle; and other major translations (both Jewish and Christian) use "rebelled". The OED Online has an obsolete, rare, transitive verb, with two senses: "To cover with earth" and "To throw on the ground." I'm guessing that Wyclif is using this verb, in the latter sense. Terrid itself appears only once in the OED Online, as an alternative Wycliffite translation that in other editions is plastrid. I think that supports the case that terrid is a Wycliffite past participle of terre. —Ruakh TALK 01:12, 22 June 2010 (UTC)