Category talk:Finnish lemmas

RFV discussion: March–May 2024

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Finnish words from Robert Hellstrom

Finnish. äpüli and ränttü don't seem relevant enough. Its weird enough that they're spelled with "ü" but i couldn't find any attestation beyond Robert Hellstrom 1976, which is the reference for the entry. JohnBretheren (talk) 15:18, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

They're described as "Finglish", so some code-switching is no doubt involved, and it's not easy to be 100% sure which language they really are. They were added in the early days before our standards were completely developed, by someone who added a lot of things from books in languages they didn't know. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:54, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

They do show up in some other sources as well, but with y instead of ü. However, they all still seem to be mentions. I don't think American Finnish/FInglish has been written down all that often, though. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 16:42, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Äpyli means "cow" in some Finnish dialect and "apple" in Meänkieli. Also räntty is known in Finnish dialects. In Oulu region it means "interest" (as paid for a loan). It has other meanings in other dialects. --Hekaheka (talk) 12:47, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

I've moved these to spellings with y for now - I think they might both be attestable in that spelling. I'll check later. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 19:32, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

I was able to cite äpyli, but not räntty in the sense of "rent" (so removed as RFV-failed), but I was able to cite it in the sense of "interest". — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 13:26, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

The others are RFV-kept. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 06:40, 20 May 2024 (UTC)