Talk:woolert

RFV discussion: May–July 2023
obsolete name for a barn owl. It probably fails 71 Brick Walls (talk) 10:07, 28 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Woolert is in EDD with no citations, nor can I find any uses elsewhere, only mentions in lists of bird names. EDD also has oolat, oolert, owlard and owlert (and many others) as alt forms of . Probably the term is ultimately an alteration of howlet and/or . (Interestingly, OED considers howlet to be the older word, derived from French, and owlet to be a later assilimation, contrary to our "obvious" etymologies. Anyone want to look into this?) This, that and the other (talk) 02:17, 29 May 2023 (UTC)


 * RFV failed. oolert needs to be RFV'd too. MyWeezer (talk) 13:28, 13 July 2023 (UTC)