Talk:ed

Initial f- of Irish

@Angr Do you have any idea why the descendants of Old Irish have an extra initial f-? —CodeCat 12:59, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

There are dozens of examples of vowel-initial Old Irish words having descendants with initial f- (fás and fan are two that spring to mind; Ulster has foscail for oscail, and so on). The explanation is that in a leniting environment, there's no difference between ed and ḟed, so a phrase like a ed 'its distance' gets reinterpreted as a ḟed, and then the f- gets spread to nonleniting environments. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 13:11, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Eating disorder

I have seen "ed" used as an abbreviation of eating disorder. It was at the beginning of a sentence so it might have been "Ed".--Simplificationalizer (talk) 20:12, 11 February 2017 (UTC)