Talk:legged
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Kiwima in topic RFV discussion: September 2018
Why do we Americans pronounce, "leg ged", Australians only pronounce one of the 'g's"?
This entry has survived Wiktionary's verification process (permalink).
Please do not re-nominate for verification without comprehensive reasons for doing so.
Rfv-sense: adjective and noun. These can't exist by themselves, but always in combination with some other modifying word. It therefore seems that the resulting words are just compounds suffixed with -ed (sense "when used along with an adjective preceding the noun, describes something that has an object of a particular quality"). —Rua (mew) 09:41, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- The noun seems a bit silly but the adjective can sometimes be found alone ("a legged table"). Equinox ◑ 11:18, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, the OED has cites for the adjective (unhyphenated) from 1470 to 2014. No noun sense, of course. I've added an example taken from Electronics for You, Sept. 2014. May we remove the verification request? I've deleted the silly noun entry that was added by an editor now blocked for disruption. Dbfirs 14:03, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- Someone may also want to take a look at the pronunciation section. For instance, I would pronounce "legged" in "legged robots" as /ˈlɛɡd/, but that is not presently an option. Mihia (talk) 19:40, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- Restored, please let the RFV conclude normally without unilaterally removing things. DTLHS (talk) 19:50, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, the OED has cites for the adjective (unhyphenated) from 1470 to 2014. No noun sense, of course. I've added an example taken from Electronics for You, Sept. 2014. May we remove the verification request? I've deleted the silly noun entry that was added by an editor now blocked for disruption. Dbfirs 14:03, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- It doesn't seem hard to find published uses similar to the example given for the questioned noun sense, "Humans are not the only two-leggeds in the world". See [1]. Whether these fully justify the questioned noun sense as it presently appears, I'm not sure. Mihia (talk) 21:02, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- I have cited the adjective, including three cites that use the adjective alone. As for the so-called noun, it looks to me like it is just an adjective Kiwima (talk) 21:13, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- If it was "the two-legged", "the four-legged", etc., then I think there would be no problem assigning it to the same category as "the good", "the bad" and "the ugly", say. But the plural "s" does seem to present a little bit of a problem. Mihia (talk) 21:47, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- The example shows that two-legged can be used as a noun. It is not hard to find uses of the plural gray-haireds. That does not make haired a noun, even though the term is also found spelled without a hyphen. [Exercise. Complete the following joke. “Two leggeds walk into a snail bar...”] --Lambiam 22:33, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- If it was "the two-legged", "the four-legged", etc., then I think there would be no problem assigning it to the same category as "the good", "the bad" and "the ugly", say. But the plural "s" does seem to present a little bit of a problem. Mihia (talk) 21:47, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- I have cited the adjective, including three cites that use the adjective alone. As for the so-called noun, it looks to me like it is just an adjective Kiwima (talk) 21:13, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- The barman says "what kind of joint do you think this is?!". -- Well, I'd rather have the noun with in combination on it than have separate entries for every two, three, six, strong, weak-legged combination. Equinox ◑ 22:44, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- I think you're right. Mihia (talk) 23:18, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 23:48, 29 September 2018 (UTC)