{"id":989,"date":"2012-08-06T20:25:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T19:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=989"},"modified":"2012-11-28T14:25:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T22:25:22","slug":"compound-fractures-what-is-turnsilver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"Compound Fractures: What is Turnsilver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had <em>turnsilver<\/em> in my list of verb-noun compounds since mid-June, but I&#8217;ve never taken a close look at it until now, as I finalize my list. The OED has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oed.com\/view\/Entry\/207725\">very short entry<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/turnsilver.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-990 aligncenter\" title=\"turnsilver\" src=\"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/turnsilver-300x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/turnsilver-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/turnsilver.png 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The OED definition says it may be a type of &#8216;local payment&#8217;, but the quotation seems to suggest that it is a service rendered for which the citizens must pay some amount.\u00a0I note that t<em>urnsilver<\/em>\u00a0is worth less than <em>cornage<\/em> and <em>seawake<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cornage<\/em>: 4 s, 6 d<br \/>\n<em>Seawake<\/em>: 7 d<br \/>\n<em>Turnsilver<\/em>: \u00a01 s, 3 d<\/p>\n<p><em><!--more-->Seawake<\/em>\u00a0is the duty of watching the sea, presumably for enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The meaning of <em>cornage<\/em> is not clear. A 1574 quote by Littleton says it is the blowing of horns to warn people about approaching enemies. (corn -&gt; horn is not a big leap, see\u00a0<em>cornucopia<\/em>,\u00a0<em>capricorn<\/em>,\u00a0<em>unicorn<\/em>). \u00a0An early warning system would merit a payment. \u00a0The <em>turnsilver<\/em> quote is chronologically nearby in 1578, so that meaning seems to fit along with the proper time period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So.<\/strong> If <em>cornage<\/em> and <em>seawake<\/em> are both enemy warning systems, why would <em>turnsilver<\/em> be a form of payment? Why would people have to pay for payment?<\/p>\n<p>Is <em>turnsilver<\/em>\u00a0an endocentric or exocentric compound? Is it a kind of silver which is turned in some way? Is silver a metaphor for money in general? A precious metal that turns into something else? Alchemy?\u00a0Do they turn silver into sellable goods? Do they bribe enemies not to attack them?\u00a0Is it a banking service or store? Maybe they turn silver (money) into items that the citizens need.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, and the OED doesn&#8217;t know. All I need for my dissertation is a brief definition, but I can&#8217;t even be sure what kind of compound this is. It may have to be removed from my glorious list of 456 exocentric V+Ns.<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts? I&#8217;m confused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Royal-Mint-Medal-Maker-560px.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-991 aligncenter\" title=\"Royal-Mint-Medal-Maker-560px\" src=\"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Royal-Mint-Medal-Maker-560px-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Royal-Mint-Medal-Maker-560px-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Royal-Mint-Medal-Maker-560px.jpeg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Look: a silver metal medal.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had turnsilver in my list of verb-noun compounds since mid-June, but I&#8217;ve never taken a close look at it until now, as I finalize my list. The OED has a very short entry about it. \u00a0The OED definition says it may be a type of &#8216;local payment&#8217;, but the quotation seems to suggest that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,567,540,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compounds","category-dissertation","category-university-of-york","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}