Talk:swinge
RFV discussion: April–May 2022
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RFV for the claimed past forms swonge and swongen. This, that and the other (talk) 04:12, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
- I'd be surprised if these exist; swinge has been a weak verb since its first attestations (as Old English swenġan). Perhaps our editor misinterpreted a ME or EModE past tense of swing? (Middle English swyngen can mean "to beat"; off the top of my head, this use persisted into EModE). Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 13:30, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
I found one for swongen, but none for swonge. Given that we are only verifying an inflection, and not the existence of the word, it seems excessive to require three instances of each inflection. I am going to call this RFV-resolved, with swongen passing but swonge failing. Kiwima (talk) 21:24, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
- According to the Preface of the book, these poems were written in the reign of Edward II (1307-1327), so they're Middle English. I'll move the quote to Middle English swengen. If the work is a 19th-century publication but the text looks surprisingly archaic, chances are it really is a little bit older than the publication date suggests... This, that and the other (talk) 22:45, 10 May 2022 (UTC)