Talk:avaunt

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avaunt

Rfd-redundant. Interjection seems to be the imperative of the verb sense "to depart, to leave". Mglovesfun (talk) 10:40, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

No, its a historical word, it appears in Macbeth as well as in Terry Pratchett novels... 92.29.191.128 11:27, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Delete per nom. DCDuring TALK 13:16, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

92.29.191.128 I'm not nominating the entire entry for deletion, just the interjection sense. Perhaps you can provide examples from Pratchett to show it is a true interjection - anyone can look up MacBeth, as it isn't copyrighted. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:26, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Citation from MacBeth is "Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!" Seems to be clearly an imperative. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:55, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

• Keep, the interjection was used for nearly a century before the verb even existed. Originally it was an adverb – He moved avaunt = he moved to the front – and then the interjection came from that. The verb was a separate, later, development from the adverb. Ƿidsiþ 09:54, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

That's a 'grandfather clause', isn't it? I.e. it would have been acceptable at the time, as the verb didn't exist yet. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:20, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

From the etymology, it seems to be an adverb meaning something like "away", which is used in the same way. Was this ever used as a normal adverb? DCDuring TALK 13:59, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Keep per Ƿidsiþ; it passes the jiffy test. Ƿidsiþ, your knowledge of old (and Old) English is invaluable. - -sche (discuss) 05:01, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

kept -- Liliana • 01:11, 23 July 2011 (UTC)