Talk:vale

RFC discussion: March–June 2018
First POS missing etym heading. – Jberkel 22:54, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Did a little work. Is it good now? --SanctMinimalicen (talk) 23:16, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Are there really three different etymologies? It looks like they all derive from, . – Jberkel 08:09, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I was debating back and forth within myself about that. What is unambiguous is Etymology 1 (the IOU comes from the Spanish verb valer), and Etymology 3 (the valediction comes from Latin {l|la|valē}. Etymology 2 is really a redundancy, but it's infinitive form ( did come from Latin.  Do we usually include etymological information for inflections, which may be found easily at the lemma entry?
 * The other catch has to do with the Spain "okay" definition. I couldn't find decisive etymological reasoning for that usage, which it comes from the Latin greeting or from the verb meaning "it's worth/it suffices".  It's unclear whether the Spanish usage and the Mexican "sale y vale" usage are actually related; the latter is clearly derived from Etymology 3 (cf.   & ).  What do you think? --SanctMinimalicen (talk) 12:59, 22 March 2018 (UTC)


 * It's (unavoidably) conceptually messy, but I think it looks okay now. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 10:16, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Spanish "vale" = okay!, yes!, fine!
Does anyone know since when this expression has been attested? At face value, of course, it means "it's valid". And to be celar: This derivation is entirely and perfectly satisfying! Nevertheless the word does remind one of,. Now if it's very recent, this must be considered nothing but a curious coincidence; but if fairly old, there could be a relation after all. 88.65.40.59 22:56, 1 September 2022 (UTC)