Talk:wede

RFV discussion: February 2018–January 2019

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wede

First etymology. I find nothing about this even in WNT. —Rua (mew) 19:38, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

@Morgengave Do you remember where you found this word? ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 13:14, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

R. Reinsma, Namen op de kaart: oorsprong van geografische namen in Nederland... (2009) mentions it as a "medieval word" found in placenames: "In de naam van de rivier de Merwede zitten de woorden meer (hier in de betekenis 'moerassig water') en wede, een middeleeuws woord voor 'bos' (verwant met woud). De Merwede moet dus lang geleden een kruising van een moeras en een bos zijn geweest, met de nadruk op bos." ("In the name of the river Merwede the words are meer (here in the meaning 'swampy water') and wede, a medieval word for 'forest' (akin to woud). The Merwede must have been a crossing of a swamp and a forest long ago, with the emphasis on forest."

I have not yet found any examples in running text. - -sche (discuss) 17:17, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

I think this can be deleted now. This is the most promising result I found:

• 1903, Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, page 181.

  […] de zonnige Zuidhellingen komen hierbij dus niet ter sprake, daar deze gebruikt worden voor nederzettingen, kultuur, weden enz. en het woud op de schaduwzijde gemakkelijker zijne klimatologische grens bereikt.

  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

But I'm quite sure that it is a misspelling of weiden. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 09:27, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

The RFV template was removed in diff and the sense was converted to 'in toponyms'. This is OK by me if it's OK with Rua; we do have at least a few other such entries. I'll move it below the still-current senses, though. - -sche (discuss) 23:22, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

@Rua Can you confirm whether this resolves the RFV for you?