Talk:frist

RFV discussion: December 2021–January 2022

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frist

Rfv-sense: To sell (goods) on trust or credit. Br00pVain (talk) 22:32, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

I suspect Middle English only. OED has a subtly different definition ("To lend or give (a thing) on credit") and offers a ME cite and a Scots cite from the 1500s where the term is spelt fyrst. This, that and the other (talk) 01:52, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

We may have too many senses. FWIW, the English Dialect Dictionary has one (perhaps, in the other direction, overloaded) sense, "To grant respite, to give a debtor credit or time for payment, to sell a thing on trust; to defer, postpone", with one English(-looking) cite:

• 1660, Rutherford, Letter no. 176:

  I would give him my bond, under my faith and hand, to frist heaven an hundred years longer.

It also has a couple Scottish quotrs about things that are fristed not being forgiven, using which I was able to find this which looks English:

• 1824, Walter Scott, Redgauntlet,: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century, page 255:

  "Well, we may have our day next — what is fristed is not forgiven — they think us all dead and buried — but —"

(But these don't support this sense). - -sche (discuss) 08:13, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:01, 16 January 2022 (UTC)