Talk:wynkernel

RFV discussion: October–November 2021
Seems to be a kind of dictionary-only term. I can only find mentions. Note that I added the "British, regional" label based on modern M-W, but having done further research I can find nothing to substantiate this label. This, that and the other (talk) 06:06, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Every English source I can find this used in treats it as a German word. Kiwima (talk) 22:33, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Is it German? listed it as a common name on one page of a 16th-century book (written in Latin, so it's definitely not a use). It looks like other authors (none of them German) interpreted this to mean that it was the German word for the thing. Pretty much all the English occurences are of the form "see ..." or "a name for ...". I get the impression that no one except maybe Gesner had ever heard the word in actual use. While I know very little about 16th-century German, the spelling seems very odd for modern German, at least. I wonder if it might be from a regional German lect (Gesner was Swiss) or even a non-German language like Dutch or Polish. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:19, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
 * In my research I found various (German) alternative spellings such as Weinkernel and Wynkernell, which appear to refer to various birds such as quails and crakes. I found Wynkernel in a Gesner text in German which Google Books claims to be from 1581, although Wikipedia gives a date of 1600 for the work. This, that and the other (talk) 07:51, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 19:50, 1 November 2021 (UTC)