Talk:fnese

RFV discussion: August–September 2020

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fnese

I doubt this survived beyond Middle English; the OED's last attestation is from 1460. Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 05:54, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

I can find this, which arguably is technically a use of the word, although clearly as an archaicism bordering on a mere mention.

• 2007, Katherine Barber, Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs, page 186:

  Fnese survived through the Middle Ages, so that people in Chaucer's works were still fnesing. However, the combination fn- was becoming very odd. Sn-, on the other hand, was a fairly common combination, especially in nose-related words […]

This seems like is a mere mention, given the italics:

• 2011, Alexander Theroux , Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery, page 111:

  An orange was once a "norange," and many years ago one did not sneeze but rather fnesed!

I can also find one similar (italicized) mention of the infinitive ("To fnese does not mean to sneeze, but to breathe hard"), and that's it. - -sche (discuss) 03:36, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

I feel like those cites amount to a kind of code-switching. I can easily imagine, for example, using niesen in English-language texts talking about the differences between English and German in exactly the same way. —Mahāgaja · talk 07:41, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

I count those as mentions, like in a dictionary or Scrabble word list. I agree with the chronologically earlier but textually later vote to change to Middle English. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:17, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

• Change to Middle English. — SGconlaw (talk) 07:47, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
• In the quotations at the Middle English Compendium the infinitive form fnesen is not attested, but to fnese is. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:10, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
• We're sure that this "f" definitely is not a long "s", right? Mihia (talk) 22:17, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

RFV-failed. I have left the Middle English entry. Kiwima (talk) 22:20, 13 September 2020 (UTC)