Talk:weest

RFV discussion: October 2022–February 2023
Rfv-sense "to waste". Not in the EDD or OED as far as I'm aware; furthermore, the rarity of would make its survival into ModE unlikely (given this, if  is attestable, it probably isn't a continuation of /; instead, it should be considered a dialectal reflex of  with early raising of  to, which in turn becomes  in many Northern English traditional dialects; c.f. , which reflects a further development to ). Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 05:35, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

RFV Failed, the Scots Dictionary has it as an alternative form of weesh (a call to a horse). Ioaxxere (talk) 18:23, 11 February 2023 (UTC)