Talk:lere
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RFV of all senses in both etymology sections. I searched for "(to|and| ) (lere|lering|lered) (me|him|her|them)" and found only scannos, Middle English, Scots, and one citation that was translating a Middle English work into modern English, which I added (it counts, IMO; see my reasoning at Talk:undeadliness). "(Was|were) lere" turned up scannos of "here" and "there". - -sche (discuss) 21:33, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
- This is not standard English. If it's not marked archaic or even obsolete, or provincial then it should be. Leasnam (talk) 19:46, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
- Ok, they already appear tagged Leasnam (talk) 19:47, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
- RFV-failed as modern English; verb converted to Middle English as leren, adjective converted to Middle English as-is (at lere, per citations quod.lib.umich.edu's Middle English Dictionary has. The two modern English translations of MidEng works which were in the entry were:
- 1988, John McKinnell, The Death, Assumption, & Coronation of the Virgin from the York Cycle, page 42:
- To lead them, and lere them the lore of our Lord.
- 1992, David Mills, The Chester Mystery Cycle:
- For after great sorrow and siking thou hast me lent great liking, two sons my heart to glad — Cain and Abel, my children dear, whom I gat within thirty year after the time we deprived were of Paradise for our pride. Therefore now them I will lere, [...]