Talk:merveile

marueiled

King James version 1611, Acts chapter 2 versus 7: "And the lews marueiled". I can't find anything on the word marueiled during or before 1611. The word is now translated into marvel K 2607:FB91:143B:5376:1656:16D4:A5A9:9566 00:14, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

That has nothing to do with merveile, which is Middle English and thus more than a century earlier than the KJV. That's not the only problem.

First of all, this (on page 24) is the actual 1611 King James version page. Notice that it simply says "and they were all amazed, and marueiled". Your text is different, and looks like bad OCR ("lews" (with an l/L) is an obvious scanno for "Iews" (with an i/I), which is a typographical variant of "Jews".

Second, during the early Modern English period "u" and "v" were basically interchangeable in contexts like this, where the letter is obviously a consonant, so you would need to search for both "marueiled" and "marveiled". Not that it matters, because a search of the Early English Books Online for "marueiled" returns 280 records and a search for "marveiled" returns 62 records. Of those, most of the "marueiled" spelling are before 1611, and several of the "marveiled" spelling are also before 1611.

Finally, early spelling was quite variable, so minor variations like this are not really that significant. One can find plenty of results at EEBO for marvelled/marveled/marveld/marueled/marueld/marueild/, etc. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:53, 3 July 2023 (UTC)