User talk:Hundwine

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Old English

Would you like to talk about your changes to Old English at the article talk page? I think that your changing to "Ænglisc" to just "Englisc" is probably better than what we have. Do you have a particular source you're drawing on?--Yellow Diamond Δ Direct Line to the Diamonds 04:15, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of declension tables on Old English grammar

Please explain your hitherto unexplained deletion of all noun declension tables on Old English grammar. Did you find them inappropriate, misplaced, or something like that? Did they contain inaccurate information? Where can the basic tenets of declension (like the classes and how they inflect, a-restored declensions, stem changes, other morphophonology etc.) be stated on this wiki? As of now, it appears that you have deleted valuable grammatical information of how to inflect nouns in an entire language for no reason at all. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 00:37, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

October 2020

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Plural of ælf

Hey ho Hundwine! I see that on elf, you've changed 'the Old English word most often attested as ælf (whose plural would have been *ælfe)' to 'the Old English word most often attested as ælf (plural ælfe)'. The problem here is that *ælfe is never attested. The regular West Saxon nominative plural ylfe is attested, once, so that's a reasonable basis for assuming *ælfe. But I'm uncomfortable implying that ælfe is actually attested. So I suggest we undo your edit. What do you think? Alarichall (talk) 19:52, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead. I saw "Wið ælfe gníd myrran on win" in the Bosworth-Toller and assumed it was plural. My mistake. Hundwine (talk) 20:07, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. I just checked what 2007 me thought about this in my elves book and there I concluded that it could be singular or plural. So what I should have said is that nominative plural *ælfe is never attested and accusative plural *ælfe is never certainly attested! Alarichall (talk) 22:25, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ic red þa boc la! Full nytt boc heo wæs and wynsumu to rædenne. I remember the part about the Middle High German poem that goes "Let the mare not ride me, let the mare not mount me! Elf with your crooked nose, I forbid you to blow on people," and that line from the Leechbook, "Gif mon mare ride..." Ic wundrige hwæðer Engle æfre cwædon "Me rad mære" for "Me mætte unswefn." I figure mare must have been a pretty common word, or else you'd never see the variant mære; the whole declension would have leveled to mare, maran, marena, marum. But the Bosworth-Toller lists mære and mere alongside one mention of nom. sg. mare. Hundwine (talk) 23:03, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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