Talk:weye

RFV discussion: May–July 2014

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weye

Are there any attestations of this after 1500? —CodeCat 11:34, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

For weye as variant of way: one from 1658, one from 1568, and one from about 1528

For weye as a variant of weigh: one from 1625, one from 1563, one from 1559, one from 1554, and one from 1551

I didn't find anything for the senses meaning to deceive or lead astray, but I haven't gone through all of the hits at Google Books. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:30, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

The OED has the verb (from Old English wǽgan to delude, deceive), both transitive, meaning to deceive or lead astray, and intransitive meaning to go astray, but it marks it as both rare and obsolete, with cites only from Shoreham's poems of 1315, so it would hardly meet our criteria for inclusion. Dbfirs 17:24, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

The OED covers English since the beginning of the second millennium, meaning that the earliest five hundred years of their coverage is Middle English on here. Couldn't the language header simply be changed from English to Middle English? — I.S.M.E.T.A. 01:47, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

As 1315 is Middle English, one cite meets CFI.--Prosfilaes (talk) 08:47, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Readded as Middle English. {{obsolete form of|weigh}} added to English entry. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 01:32, 15 July 2014 (UTC)