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Wiktionary:Tea room/2011/March

= March 2011 =

nemmine
Apparently eye dialect for "never mind." It gets quite a few (1,880) hits in google books. Probably dated, but some hits are in recent reprints. Does this sort of thing warrant an entry? — Pingkudimmi 09:46, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah; done; thanks. —msh210℠ (talk) 18:20, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. — Pingkudimmi 09:47, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

unwedable
Is this a 'common misspelling' of unweddable? Unweddable gets 41 Google Book hits, this gets only 3 (others are scannos or other words entirely). There 3:41 ratio seems a bit too rare, even though unweddable is itself rare. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:56, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The ratio doesn't seem too low, but the absolute frequency seems quite low. I would kill it. DCDuring TALK 16:35, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Perhaps move it and delete the redirect (which is why I haven't created unweddable yet). Mglovesfun (talk) 22:46, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Latin genitive -atis nouns
Someone commented on OTRS that we don't have the genitive -atis forms for Latin nouns (though we do have the verb form with the same spelling). Can these be auto-generated? —msh210℠ (talk) 20:30, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually, he said that that's one example, and that in general Latin verb forms which are also noun forms are often listed as only verb forms. —msh210℠ (talk) 20:33, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The problem is that the bot is not very clever. When adding a Latin entry to an existing (other language) entry it looks to see if there is already a Latin entry; if so, it just bypasses the addition (with a message to its console). It isn't clever enough to add a noun after an existing verb (or the converse). I could probably fix it, but I haven't got time to do everything that I would like - my wish list is already several years long. SemperBlotto 09:41, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Anyone else have the time, inclination, and ability? —msh210℠ (talk) 18:38, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

of a
Two things:

— Paul G 18:22, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) I notice the current definition is labelled as "dated". Why? Surely it's perfectly current. The second quotation is from 2008 (although that doesn't necessarily contradict the "dated" label).
 * 2) There is an American colloquial usage used in phrases such as "how of a ", where standard usage would require "how a " (eg, "How big of a man are you?" for "How big a man are you?"). Should we list this here, or does it belong elsewhere?
 * Regarding the existing sense: It's nonexistent in my dialect. Perhaps it's other than dated in the U.K.?
 * Regarding the proposed sense: How big of a man are you seems AFAICT to have the same of as how much of that cake can you eat. Is it SOP? (I suspect so.) —msh210℠ (talk) 18:30, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

On another topic, surely the entry [[of an]] and this one should be merged into one and either hard-redirected or form-ofed? —msh210℠ (talk) 18:33, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Re point 1: It's not current with me either.
 * Re point 2: We have a much improved entry at [[of]]. It has a subsense of the "indicating origin" sense for uses following an adjective and another thereafter toward the bottom of the entry. Perhaps it needs rewording or additional citations/usage examples. DCDuring TALK 19:56, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

 * Re: point 1: The second quotation actually belongs to a different sense, which I've now defined as . (Better definitions welcome!) Neither one is current U.S. usage SFAIK, except perhaps in certain fixed expressions (is "all of a sudden" using the second sense?); they both sound British -slash- old-fashioned to me.
 * Re: point 2: That's SOP. The same thing occurs with plural nouns and non-count nouns, and there of course it's just "of" without "a". (See, .)
 * —Ruakh TALK 20:12, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

 * The "dated" usage is current in my dialect. Perhaps we should label it "dated, dialectal or colloquial"?  The OED has no such restriction, and cites usage covering more than a thousand years, but phrases such as "of a Tuesday" would look odd in a formal text.    D b f  i  r  s   08:48, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

 * So, both English commenteNrs think it's current, and all three American commenters think it's not. I think a "(UK)" tag is probably the simplest solution. —Ruakh TALK 18:44, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

 * COCA has a score of entries of the first sense for "of a morning"/"of an evening", although meaning not "on every", more nearly "on some" or "by habit on". Interestingly the sole hits at COCA from spoken sources are from an NPR talk show about an early "industrial ballad" (New England textile mills), in one of which a speaker notes how the phrase stuck in her mind and appeared where she would have expected "on a". Many of the other hits seemed "literary".
 * This reminds me of the adverbial genitive, of which it appears to be a periphrasis. A grammarian I read referred to the adverbial genitive (with "s") as now being "sensed" by speakers as a plural.
 * I also found an instance of the singular sense "one", "once in/on the/a", which seems to be the sense in the second cite (which is not durably archived). DCDuring TALK 19:19, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

American IPA of call and draw
I'm told by, a professional linguist (or linguistics student, I forget now) that doesn't exist in American English. So what is the American equivalent? Mglovesfun (talk) 15:34, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

 * The Handbook of the IPA lists ɔ only as ɔɪ, in words like boy. It lists the vowel I have for call, draw and its example, pod (which should be pretty standard American) as ɑ.--Prosfilaes 22:42, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Depends on your dialect. In mine (and I'm far from alone), pod has a different vowel from call 's and draw 's, so ideally you'd transcribe them differently. I use for my pod, far, father, bother, rider, and calm;  for my pot, writer, and .com; and  for my pawn, call, and draw. (I'm never 100% sure about boy, for, and force, whether they should be or . I think I've been using the former, but if someone can convince me either way I'd be very happy.) —msh210℠ (talk) 08:49, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I fully have the Cot-caught merger (and even the father-bother merger), so ɑː, ɔː, and ɒ are fully merged for me, according to the article.--Prosfilaes 19:08, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

behind the scenes
Surely this is a noun or some other PoS? ---> Tooironic 10:56, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I would have said that it was an adverb. SemperBlotto 11:18, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Ruakh's got it right. Its a prepositional phrase. It can be used in a noun phrase as a modifier, leading to the confusion with adjective, and it can be used as a locational complement or adjunct, leading people to think it's an adverb.--Brett 18:59, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

The Plural From of the Word Cheese
I am going to appeal to the Miriam-Webster dictionary to change the plural of cheese. My alternate plural is as follows: cheesen. WHY?? Well, the word cheeses works well if your talking about multiple types of cheese, for example: "I have four cheeses: romano, pepperjack, swiss, and colby." However, if we're just talking about multiple quantities of one type or a non-specific type cheese, the phrase "I have four cheeses." is inaccurate and misleading. To clarify any confusion, the word cheesen is proposed. "I have four cheesen." eliminates any confusion, and clarifies that it is the quantity of the cheese that is being discussed, rather than the type. To make it clear, incorrect usage would be, for example: "I have four blocks of cheesen." Why, you ask? Well, it's a double plural. Cheesen on its own is enough, the word "blocks" is redundant.

So, will you support my e-petition to have this word made official?
 * Not I. Merriam-Webster, like any respectable dictionary publisher, lists words that see actual use, not those someone wishes would see use. Wiktionary, this Web site, does the same. —msh210℠ (talk) 06:17, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Certainly not. A few older English words still form the plural with the German "en" ending, but no modern English words use this plural form.  I assume that you are not a reincarnation of Noah Webster whose spelling reforms are still causing confusion to some of us on this side of the pond .  Your appeal will fall on deaf ears!  Are you going to coin "worden" as the plural for "bits of words"?    D b f  i  r  s   08:13, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Prefix a-
Iceberg Slim's Doom Fox uses the prefix a- in verbs a lot, two examples in the first page: "Joe's father ruefully shakes his graying head as he watches a handsome lemon-hued dandy prance down an aisle with a ravishing sloe-eyed beauty awiggle in a tight pink dress" and "His mouthpiece flashes starkly in his brutish face as his heavy blue lips pop agape in flabbergast". I think in both cases it basically means the same thing as the ending -ing. Is that right? That's not one of the senses already given at a-, is it?
 * It might be the Anglo-Saxon intensifying prefix. I think this is still occasionally productive, despite what our entry says, but it tends to sound dated or pretentious in modern usage outside dialect.  I'm not an expert, so I might be wrong.    D b f  i  r  s   08:20, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
 * No, it's the "in, on" sense (ety #2). The OED treats that etymology as two senses, one that's "no longer productive" and mostly matches our def, and one that's "now chiefly poet." and matches our examples. These seem to be the latter. (Incidentally, the OED only has "on", not "in", for the sense that matches our def.) —Ruakh TALK 18:41, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, you're probably right because the Anglo-Saxon sense normally has a hyphen. It is still occasionally used in dialect.    D b f  i  r  s   21:18, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

alewife
I think the definition for "Alewife" is completely wrong. It's defined as a wife that serves ail, but I think it's really just a kind of fish.
 * We have had alewife, which I have expanded, but reflects my confusion about how many species and which bear the vernacular name. The Etymology is also confusing/confused. DCDuring TALK 18:29, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Proper nouns, languages and scripts
Do proper nouns really belong to languages? Or do they better belong to scripts? Whether the noun is used for persons, places, organizations, fictional characters, assigning such a term to a language seems to invite meaningless multiple language sections. If a name is in an English section, our formatting rules allow translation sections. But many names are translingual, but not in Latin script and therefore not deemed English. We would not have those appear with translations. They would presumably have transliterations or translations into English, but not into other scripts or languages. Is this what we really want?

Do proper nouns need a different entry format? DCDuring TALK 15:13, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, certainly in the case of country names, Proper nouns can differ dramatically from language to language.--Brett 13:05, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Strongly agree with Brett; England, Angleterre, Inglaterra for example. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:09, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Surnames and to an extent given names are different. My surname Gardner of course doesn't change from language to language (apart from script). It doesn't become Jardinier in French. These could be considered translingual. Reminds me of the debate of Müller, whether it's English, or German or both. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:11, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I would not propose a mandatory format for proper nouns, rather something that permits and specifies a script-specific approach and recommends (not requires) it under some circumstances. I would think that all personal names used in English are probably translingual in that they would be used without orthographic change in all languages that use Latin scripts. (Are the 26 plain (no diacritics) letters included in all Latin-derived scripts?) DCDuring TALK 13:47, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * As to Müller, I would expect that the presence of "ü" makes it German. Dühring and Düring are German, but During is Translingual. But in some Latin-derived scripts the pronunciation-indicating diacritics might require a "translation". I would like it if Translingual sections permitted translations. DCDuring TALK 13:55, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Are the 26 plain (no diacritics) letters included in all Latin-derived scripts? - No. See Appendix:Roman script, especially the Hawaiian section. -- Prince Kassad 14:22, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. My question was dumber than I thought. I think that the idea of Translingual proper nouns would reduce the number of repetitive language sections, but would require a translation section to support non-Latin transcriptions and where diacritics are needed for a proper transcription into a language using a script derived from plain Latin script. Are there enough savings to make this worthwhile? DCDuring TALK 17:13, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * A couple of points re having Translingual-section proper nouns (for given names, for example), which I think is a good idea. (1) What goes into the translation section? Does the Hebrew-script form of Miriam get listed as a translation of Maria, to which it's apparently etymologically related? Or does the modern Hebrew Hebrew-script form of Mary? (But this question exists already with English given-name sections so is not new. I'm merely saying that switching to Translingual doesn't help it any.) (2) These Translingual proper nouns would exist in every script (or in every script for which we know of a proper noun portable among more than one language), not just Latin. (3) What's the lemma form? If a proper noun is written as Maria in many languages (including English) and as Mary in English and as Marija in Latvian, and those are all portable (because there are Latvians with the name Marija in the States who give their name thus in English or whatever the precise criterion for inclusion of such a name as Translingual is), then yes, we should list them all as Translingual, but surely not all should have translation tables. In that case, which should? (4) Once an entry is listed as translingual, say Maria, how do we indicate which language it "is really", or derives from? Do we list, in the Etymology section for Translingual Maria, "Adopted into many languages, but originally Finnish (from Latin Maria), French (from...), German (from...), Hawaiian (from...), Latin, Spanish (from...), and Swedish (from...). The Latin is from..."? That seems necessary, but is it legible? (5) We'd want/need a criterion, a cut-off for being considered translingual. —msh210℠ (talk) 17:34, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

For what it's worth, we're not the only ones struggling with these questions: see e.g. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110112/ap_on_re_eu/eu_lithuania_poland_spelling_feud. And if I recall correctly, Turkey has laws against the use of certain Latin letters that are sometimes enforced against Kurds (since Kurdish does use those letters), but never against English loanwords. —Ruakh TALK 17:54, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Even if proper nouns are used across languages, different languages can inflect them differently. For that reason alone I don't think we can call them truly translingual terms. —CodeCat 18:03, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * A word belongs to a language when it is used in the language, when it is used (not only mentioned) in texts written in the language. This is the only possible criterion. Even truly translingual words such as Canis lupus are used in English, in French, etc. and may deserve an entry for a language if some information specific to the language can be provided (e.g. pronunciation in the language, gender in the language, etc.) It's still more obvious for given names, etc. Therefore, attestations are what really matters. Lmaltier 18:31, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

 * Lots of the so-called translingual terms have different translations in languages such as Navajo. For example, Carnivora is bidił daazdoígíí dóó daʼalghałígíí. A translingual term is only used in those languages that accept it, and the script is not the only reason for rejecting the Indo-European-based translingual term. —Stephen (Talk) 21:28, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Then ought we not have Translations L4 sections in Translingual L2 sections to accommodate that? DCDuring TALK 22:05, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

 * Several notes in various directions:
 * Few shared his view, but remember EncycloPetey's arguments that neanderthalensis (and presumably also Canis lupus and Carnivora) are not translingual but Latin.
 * In the discussion of α΄, which is used in Greek and Bactrian, I suggested having only Greek and Bactrian sections on that account, and yet because it technically is used in more than one language, others preferred translingual. Translingual does not have to mean used in all languages.
 * Entries like 3 already have a kind of translations. - -sche 22:34, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * neanderthalensis is not translingual at all (because there is no conventional sense when this word is used alone), it's Latin. On the other hand, Canis lupus and Carnivora are translingual, but this does not mean they cannot be considered as Latin too, if used in Latin texts (this is probably exceptional) or if they are used to build phrases considered as composed of Latin words (which is the case of scientific species names, as they are considered as built from two Latin words). On fr.wikt, we don't use Translingual, but International conventions, which is much clearer. Lmaltier 06:37, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Given names belong to languages, not scripts. Maria has different pronunciation, declension and usage in every language. However if you speak about an Italian Maria in English, it is translingual use of an Italian name, and ideally Italian pronunciation of Maria should be used. Every personal name can appear as a translingual proper noun in languages of the same script (leaving out Latvian and Lithuanian, they transliterate everything). Lmaltier's idea "A word belongs to a language when it is used in the language" sounds simple and easy, but if you'd edit given names in several languages you'd realize it's impossible. All the language statements would become meaningless. The intuitive meaning of an Italian given name is name of an Italian speaking person. If you read about Jean-Marie Dupont in English text, and look it up in this dictionary - which language? male or female? how do you pronounce it? - the French section will explain it. An English or translingual section would just confuse the issue. Talk about meaningless sections! Some less common place names have the same translingual quality. A Finnish section for Stratford-upon-Avon seems needless (though not directly harmful) since the English pronunciation is used in Finnish. Taxonomic names are translingual, and the same might apply to some acronyms. Re DCDuring's first comment, names not in Latin script can have transliterations listed in ====Descendants==== and cognates in ====See also====. --Makaokalani 12:57, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I think I see the error of my ways with respect to given names, for which different language sections get their warrant from language specific pronunciations. But why not wait until they are actually provided?
 * Does the same pronunciation logic apply to surnames?
 * This seems to be another instance in which we can see that the efficient and effective design of a multilingual dictionary of proper nouns is fundamentally different from that of multilingual dictionary of the rest of language. We can continue to attempt to reconcile the two, but I hope that we will continue to subordinate considerations relating to proper nouns to those for the rest of language. DCDuring TALK 13:57, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * BTW, if the only difference among language sections is pronunciation, why not just have multiple pronunciation sections in a mutlilingual section. It could even be placed under a show-hide, possibly excluding English pronunciations. DCDuring TALK 14:00, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * (Not sure why you're suggesting "possibly excluding English", but anyway:) It's not the only difference. Inflections are different. So are etymologies (as I mentioned above). ¶ Makaokalani has a good point re given names. —msh210℠ (talk) 18:48, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I have proposed exactly the same thing for fr.wikt about scientific names (a long time ago): a pronunciation section with pronunciations in all languages. But I realized that this was a bad idea, even in this case. Anyway, when you propose exceptions to simple and sound general principles, it always proves to be a bad idea, sooner or later. Lmaltier 19:47, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * To Makaokalani: yes, it may seem absurd to define Jean-Louis or Dupont in an English section. Yet, it makes sense, because some sounds are impossible to pronounce in English (Jean-Louis Dupont is a very good example), and people with these names living in England, etc. hear their name pronounced another way. We don't describe how they should be pronounced, but how they are actually pronounced (descriptive approach). In fr.wikt, we have French sections with surnames defined as e.g. Russian surname. This is not contradictory. Actually, it's exactly the same for borrowed common nouns (such as the English words blouse or kimono): we don't describe the pronunciation in French or Japanese for the English words, but the pronunciation when the word is used in English. Of course, I don't propose to create thousands of language sections in Jean-Louis with a bot. But if somebody finds it useful to add a section in a language, with useful information, he should be able to do so. Lmaltier 20:03, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Which English pronunciation of Stratford-upon-Avon? Furthermore, Finnish phonotactics may tolerate Stratford-upon-Avon, but Hawaiian phonotactics doesn't, nor does Georgian phonotactics. In fact, the number of languages where ford is a valid syllable is pretty low I think; most non-English speaking people would mangle that.--Prosfilaes 20:47, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Even if the sound or the letter doesn't exist in you mother tongue, you have to use it if the person or place you are talking about has no name in your language. The result may come out with a thick accent, but at least you tried. I haven't seen an entry recording such sounds yet - in Category:Mispronunciations, perhaps? - but in any case adding the correct pronunciation, ideally with audio, is a hundred times more useful. I've desribed the problems related to given names and surnames in About given names and surnames.For transliterations of foreign names there is, for example, Category:fr:Russian surnames

--Makaokalani 14:22, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I disagree: the normal pronunciation of Paris is different in English and in French. It's the same for small villages. If an English pronunciaation does exist, is attested, for a name, this pronunciation should be mentioned in the English section. If no English pronunciation can be found, no English pronunciation should be mentioned in the English section. Lmaltier 07:27, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

 * To wrap this discussion up, I take it that, for at least most proper nouns, the notion advanced under this heading founders mostly on the fact that pronunciations often differ by language, but also because of such matters as inflection. (How does one inflect "During" in Finnish? in Navaho?)
 * Is there any class of proper nouns (besides taxonomic names) that might be well served by a Translingual section?
 * Is there any possible legitimate application for Translingual sections for any class or subclass of pronouncable proper names, for legal or medical latin, or for other terms used mostly in transnational/translingual contexts? For any such class is there a strong pronunciation norm that is somehow independent of the language of the speaker?
 * Would translingual be appropriate for any class of written-language-only terms, such as the Latin abbreviations (like op cit) used in many languages? DCDuring TALK 15:22, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

I think that Translingual should be used only when there is an international convention applicable to everybody in the world, indepedently of the language: taxonomic names, units such as cm, etc. Other cases are not truly translingual, they are common to many languages, this is very different. Lmaltier 07:34, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

take away
I don't know what the wise people have decided is the proper POS for words like minus and times, but, whatever it is, take away needs a section for that POS, as it's an informal synonym of minus, as in. —msh210℠ (talk) 19:16, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The synonymy of two expressions does not imply that they have the same PoS. My head hurts simply recalling that we have had the discussion about arithmetic operators. Clearly, in some uses "take away ...." is an imperative. One can also find "take away" inflected as a verb in this sense, which would argue strongly for treating it as a verb. Are there cases where it cannot be so interpreted? As the verb entry for "take away" would convey they meaning adequately, I would not add another PoS unless it was absolutely necessary. DCDuring TALK 19:39, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Can you explain, please, how take away in seven take away four leaves three can be interpreted as a verb? I don't see it. —msh210℠ (talk) 19:54, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

 * I have always understood this to be a shortcut for (there are/we have) seven, (then/if you) take away four, (that) leaves three. There is even a pause between the seven and the take away to indicate the dropped connective words, and another preceding leaves. Sometimes we say it quickly so that the pauses may vanish, but I still feel them very strongly. —Stephen (Talk) 21:00, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Stephen's reading covers more cases than my imperative reading. But it does depend on a lot of interpolation to cover some of the cases, which may not be to everyone's taste. Even so, it seems silly to claim that "take away" is a different PoS than "taking away", "taken away", and "took away", when the meaning is the same. DCDuring TALK 21:39, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Except that none of those occur in the construction in question.--Brett 13:41, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't have said it if I hadn't found instances. Do we have quantitative criteria for how rare they have to be to warrant ignoring them? DCDuring TALK 17:02, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I should have known. Still, I think that it's clearly not representative. Huddleston, in a personal communication opines that take away is a complex (i.e., two-word) preposition.--Brett 22:58, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * As much as I tend to dislike appeals to authority, that's a pretty good authority. I suppose as long as we have take away:, there is little to be lost from having such a PoS. DCDuring TALK 02:33, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Added.--Brett 14:59, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you, gentlemen. —msh210℠ (talk) 15:55, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Disfranchise, New or Old?
Lately I've been hearing forms of the word disfranchise in places I used to hear disenfranchise.

Is this a new word used in ignorance of disenfranchise, or an old word of similar or older history than disenfranchise? Is it a new word created for a significant purpose?

Is there an intentional difference in connotation in using one word over the other? For example, does disenfranchise indicate the granting and later withdrawal of a franchise, while disfranchise indicates the withdrawal of a franchise that someone was born with?
 * It's been around since at least the 1700s, but has been on the wane for about 150 years.--Brett 15:02, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Various spellings of fetus
¶ I am not opposed to all alternative spellings, but the alternative forms of this are clearly based on incorrect etymology, and I think it shows given how many alternatives there are. Likewise their derived terms are also erroneous. Could we please mark them as misspellings? I trust that this page details the Latin origins nicely enough ; or what about Wikipedia’s explantion? Would you seriously argue these alternatives are still “correct” because: oops, it’s too late, they are stuck in wide usage now ? 75.142.190.21 10:43, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Whether they are correct and whether they are English words are two separate issues. is extremely useful in this sort of case. See also fetii. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:28, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Prescriptivist pedants decree what spellings everyone else should use. Wikipedia (and the OED) just report what spellings are used in the real world, but I agree that there are rather too many alternatives.  Unfortunately, they can't be mis-spellings if they have been used regularly by respected writers in the past, and "foetus" is still regarded as the correct version by many of my generation in the UK, despite being based on an error. Thanks for the interesting links -- having read them, I'll be less critical of the "American spelling".    D <font color="#00ccff">b <font color="#44ffcc">f  i  r  s   20:39, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, the UK Royal College of Obstricians and Gynaecologists, opt for fetus over foetus.

get on with
Note that this is a full entry, while get along with redirects to get along. FWIW I agree with the redirect; I think get on with is get on followed directly by with; but it's not always followed by with. Compare with was deleted for quite similar logic. --Mglovesfun (talk) 12:36, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Don't be in a hurry to delete phrasal verbs with 2 particles, as they are fairly common. Having said that, I think the redirect is correct for get along with, because of common phrasing such as John gets along well with Jane" can be rephrased as "they get along well." So I would say the same applies to get on with (..get on well together..). And the other sense ... "Get on with your work" is the same as "There's work to be done, so let's get on" making the "with" an object linking preposition. IMHO. -- <i>A LGRIF </i ><font color="#FFD700"> talk  17:12, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Good point, so in fact the entry should be created. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:45, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Coining terms for which there are no synonyms
To all: Just a thought about any collaborative dictionary -- is it presumptuous to expect that a concept that has no lexical token should have one created ad hoc? I am a phrasal lexicographer, and I know of no word that describes database searches or web searches that include, in the retrievals, the concept of refinement to achieve "optimal results." Online search engines, of course, have their own algorithms and parameters for sifting through information, documents, lists, etc., that then are used to organize and display the results. But there is no general term referring to the concept of "optimization of search parameters."

I thought of the concept of refinement/refinedness, but these words only convey a degree of quality -- not of exactitude, a precise point at which the amount of refinement is exactly what the searcher wants. I have been working on a database that requires a number of "field filters" ("attribute filters") to retrieve appropriate records, but the narrowness of the results depends on numbers of multi-field (multi-attribute) specs (i.e. the more varied, precise, and cross-sectional the input, the more refined -- precise/narrow the output). These relate to a quality (degree) of refinement, not to an exact, optimal refinement – at least within my "search-engine environment."

a concept that has no corresponding term in dictionaries or google searches – only business-related organizations using them. These words are nouns that relate to optimal "refinedness" or "defineness" of search concepts, not simple degrees of refinement or definement, but as meeting optimal requirements for particular searches -- whether in a database or the entire internet. I have been working on a database that requires a minimum of filters to retrieve appropriate records, but the narrowness of the results depends on numbers of multi-field (multi-attribute) specs (i.e. the more varied, increased, and cross-sectional the input, the more refined (precise/narrow) the output). "Refinedness" (already listed) relates to a quality (degree) of refinement, not to an exact, optimal refinement – at least within my search-engine environment.
 * [dictionary.com] “refinedness” shows up, but not “refineness” or “refinitude” (and certainly not “refinity”). “Definiteness” and “definitude” show up there (but certainly not “refinity”).
 * [wiktionary.com] none of -- “refineness” “refinitude” nor “definitude” show up (and certainly not “refinity”).
 * [Merriam-webster.com] “definitude” shows up, but none of -- “refineness”, “refinedness“, nor “refinitude” (and certainly not “refinity”).

But none of these (whether included in the “standard dictionary look-ups or not) capture the idea of “optimized” or “optimal” search parameters. So I attempted to address this lack – and submitted “refinity” and “definity” as lexical additions to [wiktionary.com]. They were both dismissed, due to lack of confirmation in standard searches on the net. Is there no room for coining in collaborative enterprises – particularly when a concept exists for which there is no lexical reference?

Perhaps there is a term for this concept that I don't know about. Otherwise, it seems appropriate to coin the term(s), because it appears to be a concept that is almost self-evident in doing searches, but is simply lacking in corresponding vernacular. When a search is done – preciseness and exactitude is hoped for, but rarely (never, actually) done. The sheer number of results for most every search on a general search engine demonstrates the principle. The goal is to get exacting outcomes, without extraneous ones, but optimal outcomes are simply the best that are achieved. But even for “optimal outcomes”, there is no corresponding word – only the phrases “optimal outcomes/outputs/retrievals”. At least those are better than: “The-best-outcomes-that-we-can-come-up-with.”
 * Regarding "is it presumptuous to expect that a concept that has no lexical token should have one created ad hoc". See WT:CFI, protologism, WT:List of protologisms. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:21, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * New words enter the language when there is a need for them. If you have invented a word for which you believe there is a need, then you could start to use it (in natural language) in blogs, letters or articles to journals, newspapers etc. If other people find the word useful then they will also start using it. When evidence of such use is forthcoming we would welcome an entry here. But not before. SemperBlotto 13:27, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * You could even try making an entry at Urban Dictionary, which seems to encourage such things. DCDuring TALK 16:03, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

The answer is no. This is not compatible with a Foundation principle (no original research) which means that we should not invent anything. Lmaltier 07:20, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Suspect compounds of mass
I have been instructed that this is an allowed forum for discussions that might be construed as abusing RfD and RfV.

Following are entries that seem to be NISoP to me:
 * mass burial
 * mass destruction
 * mass flow
 * mass funeral
 * mass grave
 * mass starvation
 * mass surveillance
 * mass transportation

These have no support from other dictionaries.

"Mass flow" seems to be flow of a mass.

The others seem to be derived from either the existing RfVed adjective sense or from a possibly adjectival sense to be added related to the use of "mass" in "the masses". DCDuring TALK 12:21, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd nominate them all. They might not all be deleted, but that's what due process is for. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:26, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I have added three possibly valid senses to mass. DCDuring TALK 12:59, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

munting
British English, meaning ugly? I heard someone say it, but I can't find much online. Nadando 19:11, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

 * Yeah, it's real. I'll work up an entry. < class="latinx" >Ƿidsiþ</> 17:18, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Barge Pole
To touch with a barge pole - I see this is defined as "Get romantically involved with" (negative sense only. Obviously it can mean that, but also has a more general sense, the same as touch with a ten foot pole. I'd fix this myself, but I've never edited Wiktionary before and I think I'd do it wrong (do I add another definition to the list? Do I alter the existing one to include both senses? Do I therefore alter the example too? Do I say "same as touch with a ten foot pole", and if so, do I link to that article, and if so, do I remove the "see also"?), so if somebody else would make the change, please, I'll come back later and observe how it was done. Card Zero 20:48, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think it can mean that, any more than touching with a ten-foot pole means that. I propose that we change the entry to the negative-only form with a redirect, mirroring the touch with a ten foot pole entry.  What does anyone else think?    D <font color="#00ccff">b <font color="#44ffcc">f  i  r  s   21:07, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Whoa that's wrong, it can mean romantically but it can be used in any of several contexts. I suspect Wonderfolly. It could be something like "assisted suicide? I wouldn't touch that with a barge pole". Mglovesfun (talk) 14:42, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * ... so is it OK to redirect to the negative form, as for the ten-foot version? I've made the alteration, but I'm not sure whether "something" should be included in either the ten foot or the barge pole versions.   D <font color="#00ccff">b <font color="#44ffcc">f  i  r  s   11:20, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

/dev/null
I'm new to Wiktionary, but it seems surprisingly hard to find good quotations for this particular word. The best I could find in the figurative sense rendered it as "dev null", and I can't seem to find a print source using Google Books that is not an "Internet glossary." PleaseStand (talk) 07:43, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

 * Perhaps this is because it isn't a word:? SemperBlotto 08:35, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Citations please. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:43, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

 * yields (currently yields: Google keeps changing its undocumented search features, so who know what searching with that hyphen will yield in the future) plenty of hits for the literal sense. I'm not seeing any for the other sense, but I'm guessing they exist 9and I just need a better search string). If you doubt it, and can't find it, and wish to, then RFV it, and I'll try to cite it if no one else cites it first. —msh210℠ (talk) 17:19, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

emetofiili
Not really sure what to do about this. It seems to be correct in every way; just the English emetophile doesn't seem to meet CFI. Emetophilia does seem to be attested, albeit rare (in print). It's enough to make you sick okay that was a poor joke. Anyway, I think we just have to use a gloss, right? But leave the red link. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:41, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

technique
The only English sense of this entry is "A way of accomplishing a task that is not immediately obvious. Hence Technology, the study of or a collection of techniques."

Can it be improved, please? --Daniel. 21:22, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

 * Well I had a go at it. < class="latinx" >Ƿidsiþ</> 13:31, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

réfléchir
The entry for the French word 'réfléchir' contains, under the heading Related Terms, the word 'relet'. I am sure this should be 'reflet'.
 * Fixed. You could have fixed it yourself. SemperBlotto 10:14, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

time was
(Current redlink.) As used in, is this SOP? It doesn't seem so to me. What POS is it? It seems almost like a sentence (except the object, with the "you could..." being that object/complement/whatever), like "A time was (=existed) (that)" (an inverted "There was a time (that)"). —msh210℠ (talk) 18:43, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * More precisely, it seems like it is the sum of its parts, but in a very once upon a time way. —msh210℠ (talk) 18:48, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

 * "Time was that " also exists; see e.g. . And, for that matter,, which turns up much older examples than I had expected. —Ruakh <i >TALK</i > 19:01, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * It seems very much like an idiom, one of many that are ellipses. It looks like a non-constituent, unless we would analyze it as a sentence adverb synonymous with "formerly", but such analysis fails when a "that"-clause follows. DCDuring TALK 19:09, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * All right, thanks. I've taken a stab at it; please modify as you see fit. —msh210℠ (talk) 05:38, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

ago
Here's the discussion transcluded from the talk page which I though was interesting: —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 01:13, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

The preposition/postposition issue seems to be based on an understanding of preposition that stems from its etymology. There are adjectives that don't function attributively and those that don't function as complements to linking verbs. Regardless, they're still adjectives; we don't need to give them different names. The same holds true with prepositions that happen to come after their object. If they were called skubutyles, we'd just get on with it, and nobody would be having this discussion.

The idea that ago is an adjective strikes me as bizarre, but I'm willing to be persuaded.--Brett 12:42, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

 * Re: "The preposition/postposition issue seems to be based on an understanding of preposition that stems from its etymology": If by "etymology" you mean "the way the words are currently used by most of the educated native speakers that use them", then yes, that is exactly where it stems from. ;-)  It's quite true, as you state, that we don't need to give them different names, but traditionally people do give them different names. And also traditionally, the general catch-all term is "adposition". Some linguists, including the authors of CGEL, prefer to use "preposition" as a catch-all term, and I daresay they have good reasons for this. (For one thing, even "adposition" wouldn't jibe with all features of their analysis, such as intransitive ___positions.) But since we're a standalone dictionary, and not a lexicographic appendix to CGEL, we do need to have this sort of discussion. In many cases we'll decide to follow CGEL, but in some cases we won't. And rightly not. —Ruakh <i >TALK</i > 19:55, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

 * I appreciate the teasing, but by "traditionally" do you mean "by a few specialists for something approaching a hundred years?" Most educated native speakers are very fuzzy on what a preposition is and they have never heard of a postposition or adposition, let alone considered what those labels might mean.--Brett 23:44, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

 * Well, I specifically said " the educated native speakers that use " the terms. Actually, for that matter, I could have just dropped the "educated" and "native". Many, many people use "preposition" and "postposition" the traditional way — many more than use "preposition" the way that you advocate. claims to get 101,000 results; and, for example,  gets many times the number of results that  does, with most of the latter being self-conscious or irrelevant or both. —Ruakh <i >TALK</i > 23:59, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

 * Japanese is another issue. I assumed that, since the word under discussion was ago, we were limiting our discussion to English. Perhaps I should have said so specifically.--Brett 00:26, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

 * Ah, I see. But even so, I'm pretty sure that the above commenters are using because they're already familiar with that term, e.g. from study of languages such as Japanese. I doubt that most people would even notice that preposition is "pre-" + "position" if they weren't aware of . (I mean, it's possible — I think I once read an objection to P-stranding on the basis of " pre position" — but it's not normal!) —Ruakh <i >TALK</i > 11:19, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

 * I'm okay with either "preposition" or "postposition" personally; I only said "postposition" in the discussion above because other people had. But right now ago is marked as neither preposition nor postposition. It's supposedly an adverb. —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 16:53, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm trying to create a new name
I am trying to create a new Email but would like to create a common name from two accounts I have already. The two names are Gallant Cosmic and Cosmic Bulgeman. Any suggestions?

musæum
Good day.

¶ I would like assistance, if I may, in finding the origins of this word. My discussion here elaborates; but User:Msh210 wisely recommended I put my inquiry here. ¶ Could we please know if there may be a valid Græco‐Roman prædecessor of this spelling?

Gratias vobis ago! --Pilcrow 22:14, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

 * Like you, I'm puzzled by the early "ae" form in English, though Middle French might have had an influence. The "æ" spelling was standard in the English of the 1600s, and even up to Gibbon's Decline & Fall, but the modern spelling seems to have been used from the late 1700s onwards.    D <font color="#00ccff">b <font color="#44ffcc">f  i  r  s   08:18, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Middle French ought to be musee; I'll look into it. Mglovesfun (talk) 23:34, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * In Latin, musium:, and museum: were all spellings of the Greek loanword . User Doremitzwr is a great fan of these spellings, especially with digraphs like "æ". If you like this sort of thing see [this] sample lookup at Perseus, which has very good classical Latin and Greek dictionaries and texts available for use. DCDuring TALK 23:43, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Apparent in French replaced ;  is apparently attested in 1566 (source) though I don't know if there are three citations for it. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:21, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

get around
Is it just me or does this phrase also have a sexually suggestive meaning, e.g., in "She really gets around." ---> Tooironic 23:16, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I know the sense you imply as "X has been around". IOW, the innuendo is arguably in around:. DCDuring TALK 23:23, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

to n decimal places
Doesn't this belong in our snowclone appendix? DCDuring TALK 23:20, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Is the snowclone appendix approved by people? Should it contain verbs with unspecified objects like save someone's bacon? Should, if attestable, the entries to 2 decimal places, to 3 decimal places, etc. be created? --Daniel. 23:28, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Isn't it SoP? To (insert something here) decimal places. Note that you can omit the word decimal. Mglovesfun (talk) 23:36, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * @ Daniel.
 * It hasn't been disapproved AFAIK.
 * No. The format we have is fairly generally accepted among English language dictionaries.
 * Not in my opinion.
 * It may be that "to n decimal places" is attestable, I suppose, as meaning to an arbitrary large number of decimal places. DCDuring TALK 23:43, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * No, unless it has a specific referent that the phrase is then based off of, making it a snowclone. Otherwise it's just a common phrase with one variable component. — lexicógrafa | háblame — 01:01, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

paperless office
Just doing a random copyvio check. I Googled "the mythical office where computers and software have made paper unnecessary." and came up with this:. Do these seven results take definitions from Wiktionary? ---> Tooironic 23:24, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * You'll have to ask user:saltmarsh whether the definition was original, but it has been in Wiktionary for more than four years, so I suspect that the other sites just copied. I am often amazed to see how many other reputable websites copy directly from Wiktionary and Wikipedia.  Quite often when checking facts for Wikipedia, I get many copies of the identical text, and in some cases I recognise my own phrasing from Wikipedia in the multiple copies.    D <font color="#00ccff">b <font color="#44ffcc">f  i  r  s   09:21, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Two of the sites were Finnish. I know that they copy their content from Wiktionary. --Hekaheka 20:00, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

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Citations:Wiktionary

Proper noun: the dictionary

 * For example, at its most sweetly banal, take this posting from an online dating service, now 'immortalized' on Wiktionary: [...]
 * Wiktionary says that "cink" is Hungarian for Zinc.
 * For example, at its most sweetly banal, take this posting from an online dating service, now 'immortalized' on Wiktionary: [...]
 * Wiktionary says that "cink" is Hungarian for Zinc.
 * For example, at its most sweetly banal, take this posting from an online dating service, now 'immortalized' on Wiktionary: [...]
 * Wiktionary says that "cink" is Hungarian for Zinc.
 * Wiktionary says that "cink" is Hungarian for Zinc.

Proper noun: the dictionary (cited from websites)

 * 2003 May 1, Hamish Mackintosh, "Talk time: William Gibson", The Guardian, "Technology Guardian" section, page 21 :
 * [HM:] So is Google officially a verb now?
 * [WG:] When I wrote Pattern Recognition, it occurred to me that I could use it as a verb and it also occurred to me that someone might already have done so. I thought it didn't matter too much. If I'm first that's great, but if I'm not, then it's just good reportage in a way. Sites like Wiktionary track new usages and neologisms. The page on Google as a verb went back almost two years!
 * 2005 March 11, Ruth Walker, "O useful thou! Wherefore hast thou disappeared?" The Christian Science Monitor :
 * English speakers are spared all this - and have been for centuries. The second-person singular "thou" has long since been overtaken by the all-purpose "you."
 * But what happened to "thee"? Why did it fall into disuse? Our friends at Wiktionary, in a passing note on a grammar table, say of the second- personal singular, "It disappeared as English society became mercantilist, leaving many feudal ties behind."
 * 2007 June 17, Lisa Von Drasek, "Children’s Books: No Talking, by Andrew Clements", The New York Times, section 7, page 15 :
 * "Frindle" hits every note right. The protagonist is Nick, a fifth grader who tries to get a made-up word for a writing implement, frindle, into common usage. Nick succeeds beyond his wildest dreams. In the real world too, a recent online search of Wiktionary brings up frindle:
 * Noun, frindle
 * 1. A pen.
 * 2009 September 24, Mike Strobel, "Harvest moonlight ladies - Part II", Toronto Sun:
 * I'm confused about cougars.
 * What are they, exactly?
 * Let's start with the Oxford dictionary.
 * Mine says: "A moderately large carnivorous mammal of the cat family."
 * Oh, I remember her. Dusty tequila bar south of Tijuana. The year 2000. Picked her teeth with a cactus needle and spat on the dirt floor.
 * But that's not the meaning I seek. Let's try Wiktionary.
 * 2009 December 30, Jan Jarrett, "The myth about electricity prices", The Philadelphia Inquirer :
 * The Wiktionary defines the term urban legend as: "A widely circulated story that is untrue or apocryphal, often having elements of humor or horror." There is an urban legend that is in wide circulation these days and it goes something like "Soaring electric prices are looming in Pennsylvania. Electric retail competition has failed."

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Netanyahu

Etymology
.

Translations

 * Arabic: نِتَنْيَاهُو
 * Armenian: Նեթանյահու
 * Belarusian: Нетанья́ху, Нэтанья́гу
 * Bulgarian: Нетаня́ху
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ნეთანიაჰუ
 * German: Netanjahu
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: Νεθανιᾱ́ου
 * Hebrew: נְתַנְיָהוּ
 * Hindi: नेतन्याहू
 * Japanese: ネタニヤフ
 * Korean: ^네타냐후
 * Latin: Nethaniāhū
 * Persian: نِتانْیاهو
 * Russian:, , Нетанья́гу
 * Spanish: Netanyahu, Netañaju
 * Tajik: Нетанёҳу
 * Ukrainian: Нетанья́гу
 * Urdu: نیتَن یاہُو

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User talk:Fxmastermind

Why did this page get deleted? What was on it? It's a mystery. Fxmastermind 02:03, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

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retube

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To fit with a new tube or tubes.

title: retube


text: retubed

title: retubed


text: retubes

title: retubes


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retubing

Noun

 * 1) The act of fitting with a new tube.

title: retubing


text: retubings

title: retubings


text: Stollies

title: Stollies


text: STOLports

title: STOLports


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I'm hot

Phrase

 * 1) Indicates that the speaker is hot (i.e. feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort)

Translations

 * Arabic: أَنَا حَرَّان, أَنَا حَرَّانَة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 我很熱
 * Dutch: ik ben heet, ik ben warm, ik heb het warm
 * Finnish: minulla on kuuma
 * French: avoir chaud
 * Galician: teño calor
 * German: mir ist heiß
 * Hebrew: חַם לִי
 * Hindi: बहुत गर्मी है
 * Hungarian: melegem van
 * Indonesian: Saya panas
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: dat is mi hitt, dat is mi heet, dat is mi warm
 * Luxembourgish: mir ass waarm
 * Navajo: deesdoi
 * Ojibwe: ningishiz
 * Persian: گرممه
 * Polish: gorąco mi
 * Portuguese: estou com calor
 * Russian: мне жа́рко
 * Spanish: tengo calor
 * Swedish: jag är varm, jag är het

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doctorspeak

Noun

 * 1) The jargon used by doctors; medical language.

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neuhaitnys

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) disagreeableness
 * 2) displeasure
 * 1) displeasure

title: neuhaitnys


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counterinitiative

Noun

 * 1) An initiative opposing another initiative.

title: counterinitiative


text: counterinitiatives

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nonfoveate

Adjective

 * 1) Not foveate.

title: nonfoveate


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delectability

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  The quality of being delectable.
 * 2)  A delight.
 * 1)  A delight.

title: delectability


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neuhaitnyssagh

Etymology
From +.

Adjective

 * 1) disagreeable, displeasing

title: neuhaitnyssagh


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ghutra

Etymology
From,.

Noun

 * 1) A type of headcloth, a keffiyeh.

title: ghutra


text: ghutras

title: ghutras


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neuhappey

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) nonsense

title: neuhappey


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kufiya

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) keffiyeh

title: kufiya


text: kufiyas

title: kufiyas


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microconstituent

Noun

 * 1) A microscopic constituent.

title: microconstituent


text: microconstituents

title: microconstituents


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neuharmestey

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  non-intervention

title: neuharmestey


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minifacial

Noun

 * 1) A short facial (beauty treatment on the face).

title: minifacial


text: minifacials

title: minifacials


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miniparade

Noun

 * 1) A small parade.

title: miniparade


text: miniparades

title: miniparades


text: miniplasmids

title: miniplasmids


text: perspirations

title: perspirations


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shehitah

Noun

 * 1) The ritual slaughter of mammals and birds according to Jewish dietary laws.

title: shehitah


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subpremium

Adjective

 * 1) Below premium grade.

title: subpremium


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ultraripe

Adjective

 * 1) Extremely ripe.

title: ultraripe


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uninsurance

Noun

 * 1) The state of being uninsured.

title: uninsurance


text: uninsureds

title: uninsureds


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calibrachoa

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Any of the solanaceous plants of genus.

Hyponyms

 * , Superbells

title: calibrachoa


text: calibrachoas

title: calibrachoas


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foveate

Etymology
From.

Pronunciation

Adjective

 * 1)  Having slight depressions or pits.

Verb

 * 1)  To angle one's eyes such that the foveae are directed at (an object in one's field of view), the fovea being the portion of the retina responsible for sharp central vision.

title: foveate


text: camases

title: camases


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camassia

Etymology
From the genus name.

Noun

 * 1) Any of the genus  of flowering plants, the camases.

title: camassia


text: camassias

title: camassias


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fixtureless

Adjective

 * 1) Without fixtures.

title: fixtureless


text: foveated

title: foveated


text: foveating

title: foveating


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osteospermum

Etymology
From the genus name.

Pronunciation

 * /ˌɒsti.ɵˈspɜrməm/

Noun

 * 1) Any of the genus  of subshrubs.

Translations

 * Italian:

title: osteospermum


text: osteospermums

title: osteospermums


text: osteosarcomas

title: osteosarcomas


text: osteosarcomata

title: osteosarcomata


text: osteoscleroses

title: osteoscleroses


text: pinkier

title: pinkier


text: pinkiest

title: pinkiest


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underplant

Verb

 * 1)  To plant underneath.
 * 2)  To plant too little of.
 * 1)  To plant too little of.

Noun

 * 1) A plant that has been planted underneath others.

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underplanting

Noun

 * 1) An arrangement of underplants.

title: underplanting


text: underplanted

title: underplanted


text: underplants

title: underplants


text: zapateados

title: zapateados


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disfluency

Noun

 * 1) Lack of fluency in speech; any of various breaks, irregularities, and non-lexical vocables that occur within otherwise fluent speech.

title: disfluency


text: disfluencies

title: disfluencies


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murumuru

Noun

 * 1) A rainforest palm,, whose seeds contain a butter used in moisturizers.

title: murumuru


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streetball

Noun

 * 1) street basketball

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streetballer

Noun

 * 1) A player of street basketball.

title: streetballer


text: streetballers

title: streetballers


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taxability

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being taxable.

title: taxability


text: uhs

title: uhs


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umlessness

Noun

 * 1)  The avoidance of the hesitating interjection  in speech.

title: umlessness


text:
unstuff

Verb

 * 1)  To remove the stuffing from.
 * 2)  To decompress (a compressed archive in the  format).

title: unstuff


text: unstuffs

title: unstuffs


text: unstuffing

title: unstuffing


text: bludgeonings

title: bludgeonings


text: buckoes

title: buckoes


text: buckras

title: buckras


text: buckrammed

title: buckrammed


text: chidings

title: chidings


text:
hypervigilant

Adjective

 * 1) In a state of hypervigilance.

title: hypervigilant


text:
tandas

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) toilet, lavatory

title: tandas


text:
truckyard

Noun

 * 1) A yard where trucks are loaded and unloaded.

title: truckyard


text: truckyards

title: truckyards


text:
visionwise

Adverb

 * 1) In terms of vision.

title: visionwise


text:
neuharrooghys

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) laziness, sloth

title: neuharrooghys


text:
neuharrooghid

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) laziness, sloth

title: neuharrooghid


text:
femblagh

Adjective

 * 1) eclectic

title: femblagh


text:
neuhassooagh

Etymology
From +.

Adjective

 * 1) inconsistent, astatic

title: neuhassooagh


text:
neuhassooaght

Noun

 * 1) instability, inconsistency

title: neuhassooaght


text:
foretokening

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) Indication in advance.

Etymology 2
From.

title: foretokening


text:
leivänmurut

Noun

 * 1)  breadcrumbs trail of hyperlinks that lead consecutively to the current page
 * 1)  breadcrumbs trail of hyperlinks that lead consecutively to the current page

title: leivänmurut


text:
leivänmuru

Noun

 * 1) breadcrumb
 * 2)  In plural also breadcrumbs trail of hyperlinks that lead consecutively to the current page

title: leivänmuru


text:
leivänmurunen

Noun

 * 1) breadcrumb
 * 1) breadcrumb

title: leivänmurunen


text:
атташе

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1) attaché

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) attaché

title: атташе


text:
forewish

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To wish or desire beforehand.

title: forewish


text:
tuhlaus

Noun

 * 1) An act of wasting or squandering something, as money or other resources.

title: tuhlaus


text:
ܓܠܠܐ

Etymology 1
From the root related to rolling. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) wave, billow

Etymology 2
From the root related to rolling.

Noun

 * 1)  floodplain, valley
 * 2) spring, fountain
 * 3) roundness, rotundity

title: ܓܠܠܐ


text:
forehold

Etymology 1
From. is a variant of (influenced by ), from, , from , from , from , from ; further etymology uncertain, possibly either from  or.

Noun

 * 1)  The forward or front part of the hold of a ship.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * French: cale avant
 * German: vorderer Laderaum

Etymology 2
From. is derived from, from , from , from ; further etymology uncertain, possibly from.

Verb

 * 1)  To hold or believe (something) beforehand; to assume; to anticipate, to predict.

Usage notes
Not to be confused with.

title: forehold


text:
leipien heitto

Etymology
+ - the resulting circles on the surface of the water look a bit like a row of round breads; a similar idiom is used in Swedish and in Russian (throwing blinis), but it's unclear whether they have a common origin. Note also John Higgins' definition from 1585: "A kind of sport or play with an oister shell or stone throwne into the water, and making circles yer it sinke, etc. It is called a ducke and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake."

Noun

 * 1) stone skipping, stone skimming, stone skiffing, playing ducks and drakes act of throwing flat stones to the surface of water and trying to make them bounce

title: leipien heitto


text: leipien

title: leipien


text:
heittää leipiä

Etymology
See:.

Verb

 * 1) to play ducks and drakes, skim, skip stones

Conjugation
See. is in the plural number and the partitive case.

title: heittää leipiä


text: voileipiä

title: voileipiä


text:
foreholding

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * : a prediction; a superstitious prognostication; also, an ominous foreboding.

Usage notes
Not to be confused with.

title: foreholding


text:
forehew

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To hew or cut in front.

title: forehew


text:
foredesign

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To design or plan beforehand; forecast.

title: foredesign


text:
ܓܡܠ ܢܡܪܐ

Etymology
From ; a calque of 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) camelopard, giraffe

title: ܓܡܠ ܢܡܪܐ


text:
foredetermine

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To determine beforehand; predetermine.

title: foredetermine


text:
foredetermined

Adjective

 * 1) Determined in advance.

title: foredetermined


text:
ܙܕܩܐ

Etymology
From the root related to righteousness. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) propriety, rectitude, justice
 * 2) law, rule, prescription
 * 3) duty, contribution
 * 4) due, portion, allowance, appurtenance
 * 5) income
 * 6) tax, debt
 * 7) proceeds
 * 8) tribute
 * 9) rite, service, alms

title: ܙܕܩܐ


text:
foreflow

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To flow before.

Noun

 * 1) The act or process of foreflowing.
 * 2) That which foreflows.
 * 3)  A channel or conduit which permits gases or liquids to foreflow.

title: foreflow


text:
ܙܕܩܬܐ

Etymology
From the root related to righteousness. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) alms, charity

title: ܙܕܩܬܐ


text:
valsts

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Morphologically from (*vald-tis > *valstis > valsts; compare dialectal form ).

The original meaning was “power, domination”; by the 18th century, this had been changed to “parish, fief, administrative district”, with significant geographic variation well into the 19th century. Only in the 20th century did the current meaning become stable. Cognates include 🇨🇬 (< *vald-tius, dialectal ),, Proto-Slavic from.

Noun

 * 1) state, country a sovereign polity with a government; the territory of this polity
 * 2)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings
 * 1)  kingdom one of the highest divisions in the classification of living beings

title: valsts


text:
zibens

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, and see 🇨🇬 for more.

Noun

 * 1) lightning discharge of atmospheric electricity with a visible flash of light

title: zibens


text:
leivänheitto

Etymology

 * see also etymology section of.

title: leivänheitto


text:
iattanza

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) arrogance, haughtiness

title: iattanza


text: Beliza

title: Beliza


text: Barbadosa

title: Barbadosa


text:
iberista

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) scholar of Spanish and Portuguese language and literature

Noun

 * 1) scholar of Iberian languages

title: iberista


text: Hondurasa

title: Hondurasa


text:
Sentlūsija

Proper noun

 * 1) Saint Lucia

title: Sentlūsija


text:
ibero

Adjective

 * 1) Iberian

title: ibero


text:
популизам

Noun

 * 1) populism

Noun

 * 1) populism

title: популизам


text: Dominikānas Republika

title: Dominikānas Republika


text:
постфеминизам

Noun

 * 1) postfeminism

title: постфеминизам


text:
ibridatore

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) hybridizer

title: ibridatore


text:
ibridismo

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) hybridization, hybridity
 * 2) hybridism

title: ibridismo


text:
icario

Adjective

 * 1) Icarian (that soars too high for safety)

title: icario


text:
valūta

Etymology
Borrowed from, probably via.

Noun

 * 1) currency a specific, usually foreign, country's official money

title: valūta


text:
ܙܘܒܢܐ

Etymology
From the root related to purchasing.

Noun

 * 1) selling, sale

title: ܙܘܒܢܐ


text:
icneumone

Noun

 * 1) ichneumon

title: icneumone


text:
enerģija

Noun

 * 1) energy

title: enerģija


text:
mācīt

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to teach

title: mācīt


text:
icneumonide

Noun

 * 1) ichneumon wasp (of family )

title: icneumonide


text:
slēpt

Etymology
From, (whence both  and its dialectal variant ), from , , a variant of  (related to the stem , whence 🇨🇬, q.v.).The original meaning was “to cover (with one's hands),” from which “to not let others see (by covering with one's hands)” > “to hide.” Cognates include 🇨🇬; from the parallel stem , also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (< ), 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to hide, to conceal to put away (something, someone) so that others cannot see or find it, or to protect it from something
 * 2) to hide, to conceal to deliberately not reveal facts, activities, etc.
 * 3) to hide, to conceal to behave, to be made in such a way that one's feelings, thoughts, intentions etc. are not visible
 * 4)  to hide, to contain (something unknown, unsuspected)
 * 1) to hide, to conceal to deliberately not reveal facts, activities, etc.
 * 2) to hide, to conceal to behave, to be made in such a way that one's feelings, thoughts, intentions etc. are not visible
 * 3)  to hide, to contain (something unknown, unsuspected)
 * 1) to hide, to conceal to deliberately not reveal facts, activities, etc.
 * 2) to hide, to conceal to behave, to be made in such a way that one's feelings, thoughts, intentions etc. are not visible
 * 3)  to hide, to contain (something unknown, unsuspected)
 * 1) to hide, to conceal to behave, to be made in such a way that one's feelings, thoughts, intentions etc. are not visible
 * 2)  to hide, to contain (something unknown, unsuspected)
 * 1) to hide, to conceal to behave, to be made in such a way that one's feelings, thoughts, intentions etc. are not visible
 * 2)  to hide, to contain (something unknown, unsuspected)
 * 1) to hide, to conceal to behave, to be made in such a way that one's feelings, thoughts, intentions etc. are not visible
 * 2)  to hide, to contain (something unknown, unsuspected)
 * 1)  to hide, to contain (something unknown, unsuspected)
 * 1)  to hide, to contain (something unknown, unsuspected)
 * 1)  to hide, to contain (something unknown, unsuspected)
 * 1)  to hide, to contain (something unknown, unsuspected)
 * 1)  to hide, to contain (something unknown, unsuspected)
 * 1)  to hide, to contain (something unknown, unsuspected)

Derived terms

 * prefixed verbs:

 * other derived terms:

title: slēpt


text:
icnografia

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  ichnography, ground plan

title: icnografia


text:
palīdzēt

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to help, to help out, to aid, to assist to provide support for, to facilitate, to cause something
 * 2) to help to provide with needed money, resources, situation
 * 3) to help to save from something bad, undesirable
 * 4) to help to have a positive effect
 * 1) to help to provide with needed money, resources, situation
 * 2) to help to save from something bad, undesirable
 * 3) to help to have a positive effect
 * 1) to help to save from something bad, undesirable
 * 2) to help to have a positive effect
 * 1) to help to save from something bad, undesirable
 * 2) to help to have a positive effect
 * 1) to help to save from something bad, undesirable
 * 2) to help to have a positive effect
 * 1) to help to have a positive effect
 * 1) to help to have a positive effect

title: palīdzēt


text:
szénsavas

Adjective

 * 1) carbonated, sparkling, effervescent, fizzy, with gas of a beverage

title: szénsavas


text:
sūkt

Etymology
This word results from the conflation of two independent stems:, , with an extra -k, yielding  > 🇨🇬; and  with an infix n, yielding a reduced grade  >  > 🇨🇬. Cognates via the first stem include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, ; cognates via the second stem  include 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to suck; to absorb, to pump to cause liquids, gases, etc. to move by rarefying the air inside some instrument, body part (especially the mouth), etc.
 * 2) to sip to drink with the lips pressed together; to drink slowly
 * 3) to smoke a pipe, a cigarette, etc.
 * 1) to sip to drink with the lips pressed together; to drink slowly
 * 2) to smoke a pipe, a cigarette, etc.
 * 1) to sip to drink with the lips pressed together; to drink slowly
 * 2) to smoke a pipe, a cigarette, etc.
 * 1) to sip to drink with the lips pressed together; to drink slowly
 * 2) to smoke a pipe, a cigarette, etc.
 * 1) to sip to drink with the lips pressed together; to drink slowly
 * 2) to smoke a pipe, a cigarette, etc.
 * 1) to smoke a pipe, a cigarette, etc.
 * 1) to smoke a pipe, a cigarette, etc.
 * 1) to smoke a pipe, a cigarette, etc.

Derived terms

 * prefixed verbs:

 * other derived terms:

title: sūkt


text:
dusēt

Etymology
Originally the iterative form of (still dialectally attested), from, from , , , whence also 🇨🇬. The original meaning of was thus “to breathe heavily” (still visible in the related term ) from which “to breathe audibly” > “to breathe deeply (as in sleep)” > “to sleep”.

Cognates include 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to sleep; to rest
 * 2)  to be dead, to rest
 * 1)  to be dead, to rest
 * 1)  to be dead, to rest
 * 1)  to be dead, to rest
 * 1)  to be dead, to rest
 * 1)  to be dead, to rest
 * 1)  to be dead, to rest

title: dusēt


text:
dampskib

Etymology
From, from 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) steamboat, steamship, steamer

title: dampskib


text: dampskibet

title: dampskibet


text: dampskibe

title: dampskibe


text: dampskibene

title: dampskibene


text: dampskibs

title: dampskibs


text: dampskibets

title: dampskibets


text: dampskibes

title: dampskibes


text: dampskibenes

title: dampskibenes


text: idalgo

title: idalgo


text:
idillicamente

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) idyllically

title: idillicamente


text:
idoneamente

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) suitably
 * 2) fittingly

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) suitably
 * 2) fittingly

title: idoneamente


text:
kartanlukija

Noun

 * 1) codriver navigator in the sport of rally racing

title: kartanlukija


text:
Finnr

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) ; as an element also in Finnviðr, Finnulfr, Finnólfr, et cetera

title: Finnr


text:
idra

Noun

 * 1)  hydra
 * 2)  pest, plague, nuisance

title: idra


text:
Idra

Etymology 1
, from.

Proper noun

 * 1) Hydra (all senses)

title: Idra


text:
idrazone

Noun

 * 1)  hydrazone

title: idrazone


text:
idria

Noun

 * 1)  hydria

title: idria


text: destitutions

title: destitutions


text:
food plant

Noun

 * 1)  A plant which is a source of food for a given species.

title: food plant


text: foodplant

title: foodplant


text:
Gunnarr

Etymology
From Old Norse and -arr from, from. Cognates include: 🇨🇬,.

title: Gunnarr


text:
iridal

Etymology 1
Formed from (the stem of),.

Adjective

 * 1)  Pertaining to a rainbow.

Adjective

 * 1)  Pertaining to the iris of the eye.

title: iridal


text:
kartturi

Noun

 * 1) navigator
 * 2) codriver navigator in rally racing

title: kartturi


text:
triple reassortant

Noun

 * 1) A viral strain containing genes from three different organisms

title: triple reassortant


text:
ietografo

Noun

 * 1) hyetograph

title: ietografo


text:
ietogramma

Noun

 * 1) hyetograph

title: ietogramma


text:
hyetograph

Noun

 * 1) A graphical representation of rainfall over time.

Translations

 * Italian: ietografo, ietogramma

title: hyetograph


text: iettando

title: iettando


text: iettante

title: iettante


text:
iettato

Etymology
From. .

Adjective

 * 1) jinxed, unlucky, unfortunate

title: iettato


text:
iettare

Etymology
Central-Southern dialectal variant of, from , in reference to throwing dice.

Verb

 * 1)  to jinx

title: iettare


text: iettati

title: iettati


text: iettata

title: iettata


text: ietto

title: ietto


text: ietti

title: ietti


text: ietta

title: ietta


text: iettiamo

title: iettiamo


text: iettate

title: iettate


text: iettano

title: iettano


text: iettavo

title: iettavo


text: iettavi

title: iettavi


text: iettava

title: iettava


text: iettavamo

title: iettavamo


text: iettavate

title: iettavate


text: iettavano

title: iettavano


text: iettai

title: iettai


text: iettasti

title: iettasti


text: iettò

title: iettò


text: iettammo

title: iettammo


text: iettaste

title: iettaste


text: iettarono

title: iettarono


text: ietterò

title: ietterò


text: ietterai

title: ietterai


text: ietterà

title: ietterà


text: ietteremo

title: ietteremo


text: ietterete

title: ietterete


text: ietteranno

title: ietteranno


text: ietterei

title: ietterei


text: ietteresti

title: ietteresti


text: ietterebbe

title: ietterebbe


text: ietteremmo

title: ietteremmo


text: iettereste

title: iettereste


text: ietterebbero

title: ietterebbero


text: iettiate

title: iettiate


text: iettino

title: iettino


text: iettassi

title: iettassi


text: iettasse

title: iettasse


text: iettassimo

title: iettassimo


text: iettassero

title: iettassero


text:
Ifigenia

Etymology
.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Iphigenia

Proper noun

 * 1)  Iphigenia Greek hero

title: Ifigenia


text:
igienizzazione

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) sanitization

Derived terms

 * (steam cleaning)
 * (deep cleaning)

title: igienizzazione


text: Category:Clippings by language

title: Category:Clippings by language


text:
iglò

Noun

 * 1) igloo

title: iglò


text:
Talk:pet project

is the meaning of pet project; big project or small one?

 * No. It can be any size. SemperBlotto 10:17, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

RFD discussion: June–October 2020
It is pet adjective sense 1: "favourite; cherished". Equinox ◑ 20:01, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as SoP. PseudoSkull (talk) 20:54, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Agree, delete, common collocation but essentially no different from pet idea, pet scheme, pet theory etc. Mihia (talk) 22:12, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. DCDuring (talk) 02:09, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, SOP. —Granger (talk · contribs) 02:44, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. - -sche (discuss) 19:13, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Shouldn't and  be deleted as well? PUC – 12:50, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

 * I'm not quite so sure that a pet peeve/hate is a "favourite; cherished" peeve/hate. Equinox ◑ 19:23, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * pet may need another sense, or need to expand that existing sense, to handle negative terms (independent of whether those are kept or deleted), because I can also find e.g. "Major Butler has a pet grievance and a pet aversion, which he forces on the reader in every chapter, and which becomes at last very wearisome." "His pet annoyance was the buying of radios on credit by those who could not afford them." - -sche (discuss) 19:56, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * If you do add it (which I think is a good idea), I will definitely take it as an argument to nominate pet peeve and pet hate for deletion (though WT:JIFFY might apply to one of them?). PUC – 21:08, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

 * RFD-deleted. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:58, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

title: Talk:pet project


text: Category:English eye dialect

title: Category:English eye dialect


text: Category:English rare forms

title: Category:English rare forms


text: Category:Czech terms prefixed with o-

title: Category:Czech terms prefixed with o-


text:
ignifero

Adjective

 * 1) igniferous

title: ignifero


text: Category:Borrowed terms by language

title: Category:Borrowed terms by language


text:
ignifugare

Etymology
From. .

Verb

 * 1)  to fireproof

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) fireproofing

title: ignifugare


text:
Ívarr

Etymology
The first part (Ív-) stems from, from , whence also 🇨🇬. The second part (-arr) stems from, whence also Old Norse. Partly merged with Old Norse,.

title: Ívarr


text: Category:Greek rare forms

title: Category:Greek rare forms


text: Category:sh:Banking

title: Category:sh:Banking


text: Category:syc:Compass points

title: Category:syc:Compass points


text: Category:syc:Directions

title: Category:syc:Directions


text: Category:syc:Navigation

title: Category:syc:Navigation


text: Category:syc:Transport

title: Category:syc:Transport


text: Category:Cornish compound terms

title: Category:Cornish compound terms


text: Category:English terms suffixed with -zoic


text: Category:Finnish terms suffixed with -ua


text: ignifugando

title: ignifugando


text: ignifugante

title: ignifugante


text: ignifugato

title: ignifugato


text: ignifugati

title: ignifugati


text: ignifugata

title: ignifugata


text: ignifughiamo

title: ignifughiamo


text: ignifugate

title: ignifugate


text: ignifugano

title: ignifugano


text: ignifugavo

title: ignifugavo


text: ignifugavi

title: ignifugavi


text: ignifugava

title: ignifugava


text: ignifugavamo

title: ignifugavamo


text: ignifugavate

title: ignifugavate


text: ignifugavano

title: ignifugavano


text: ignifugai

title: ignifugai


text: ignifugasti

title: ignifugasti


text: ignifugò

title: ignifugò


text: ignifugammo

title: ignifugammo


text: ignifugaste

title: ignifugaste


text: ignifugarono

title: ignifugarono


text: ignifugherò

title: ignifugherò


text: ignifugherai

title: ignifugherai


text: ignifugherà

title: ignifugherà


text: ignifugheremo

title: ignifugheremo


text: ignifugherete

title: ignifugherete


text: ignifugheranno

title: ignifugheranno


text: ignifugherei

title: ignifugherei


text: ignifugheresti

title: ignifugheresti


text: ignifugherebbe

title: ignifugherebbe


text: ignifugheremmo

title: ignifugheremmo


text: ignifughereste

title: ignifughereste


text: ignifugherebbero

title: ignifugherebbero


text: ignifughiate

title: ignifughiate


text: ignifughino

title: ignifughino


text: ignifugassi

title: ignifugassi


text: ignifugasse

title: ignifugasse


text: ignifugassimo

title: ignifugassimo


text: ignifugassero

title: ignifugassero


text:
ignifugazione

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) fireproofing

title: ignifugazione


text: Category:German childish terms

title: Category:German childish terms


text: fjorde

title: fjorde


text: fjordene

title: fjordene


text:
ignobilmente

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) ignobly, basely

title: ignobilmente


text: Category:Bulgarian idioms

title: Category:Bulgarian idioms


text: Category:Japanese literary terms

title: Category:Japanese literary terms


text: Category:Crimean Tatar nonstandard terms


text: fjordes

title: fjordes


text: fjordenes

title: fjordenes


text:
ignobiltà

Etymology
From (slightly shortened).

Noun

 * 1) baseness, lowness, ignobility

title: ignobiltà


text: Category:Translingual internet slang

title: Category:Translingual internet slang


text:
iguanodonte

Noun

 * 1) iguanodont

Noun

 * 1) iguanodont

title: iguanodonte


text:
ileale

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  ileal

title: ileale


text:
ileocecale

Adjective

 * 1)  ileocaecal

title: ileocecale


text: Category:Danish childish terms

title: Category:Danish childish terms


text:
Ilio

Proper noun

 * 1) Ilium, Troy

title: Ilio


text: Category:Tajik literary terms

title: Category:Tajik literary terms


text: Category:Romanian childish terms

title: Category:Romanian childish terms


text:
illanguidimento

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) weakening, enfeeblement
 * 2) languishing

title: illanguidimento


text: Category:Norwegian Nynorsk personal pronouns


text: Category:French neologisms

title: Category:French neologisms


text: Category:Dogrib nouns

title: Category:Dogrib nouns


text: Category:Dogrib language

title: Category:Dogrib language


text: Category:Article forms by language

title: Category:Article forms by language


text: Category:Czech dated terms

title: Category:Czech dated terms


text: Category:Hindi poetic terms

title: Category:Hindi poetic terms


text: Category:Hindi literary terms

title: Category:Hindi literary terms


text: Category:Swedish phrasebook/Sex

title: Category:Swedish phrasebook/Sex


text:
Talk:ryssiä

I don't think I can give any source for this, but the verb ryssiä also has the meaning to rush/storm somewhere with brutal force (which I'm guessing is a reference to the way Russians came to Finland during the Winter War). This is a very common phrase among Finnish gamers, usually used in strategy games or first person shooters when someone rushes into open or a building without giving it much thought (often just shooting randomly while charging), but you sometimes hear it in normal speech, too. --This informative comment was left by Sw-f 10:59, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

title: Talk:ryssiä


text:
illegalismo

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) illegality

title: illegalismo


text: Category:Welsh phrases

title: Category:Welsh phrases


text: Category:Esperanto uncountable nouns

title: Category:Esperanto uncountable nouns


text: Category:Italian humorous terms

title: Category:Italian humorous terms


text:
illeggiadrire

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to embellish, to make more attractive, to prettify
 * 2)  to make graceful or more graceful
 * 3)  to become more attractive
 * 4)  to become more graceful

title: illeggiadrire


text: Category:Hindi nonstandard terms

title: Category:Hindi nonstandard terms


text:
illeggiadrirsi

Verb

 * 1)  to become more attractive
 * 2)  to become more graceful

title: illeggiadrirsi


text: illeggiadrendo

title: illeggiadrendo


text: illeggiadrente

title: illeggiadrente


text: illeggiadrito

title: illeggiadrito


text: illeggiadriti

title: illeggiadriti


text: illeggiadrita

title: illeggiadrita


text: illeggiadrisco

title: illeggiadrisco


text: illeggiadrisci

title: illeggiadrisci


text: illeggiadrisce

title: illeggiadrisce


text: illeggiadriamo

title: illeggiadriamo


text: illeggiadrite

title: illeggiadrite


text: illeggiadriscono

title: illeggiadriscono


text: illeggiadrivo

title: illeggiadrivo


text: illeggiadrivi

title: illeggiadrivi


text: illeggiadriva

title: illeggiadriva


text: illeggiadrivamo

title: illeggiadrivamo


text: illeggiadrivate

title: illeggiadrivate


text: illeggiadrivano

title: illeggiadrivano


text: illeggiadrii

title: illeggiadrii


text: illeggiadristi

title: illeggiadristi


text: illeggiadrì

title: illeggiadrì


text: illeggiadrimmo

title: illeggiadrimmo


text: illeggiadriste

title: illeggiadriste


text: illeggiadrirono

title: illeggiadrirono


text: illeggiadrirò

title: illeggiadrirò


text: illeggiadrirai

title: illeggiadrirai


text: illeggiadrirà

title: illeggiadrirà


text: illeggiadriremo

title: illeggiadriremo


text: illeggiadrirete

title: illeggiadrirete


text: illeggiadriranno

title: illeggiadriranno


text: illeggiadrirei

title: illeggiadrirei


text: illeggiadriresti

title: illeggiadriresti


text: illeggiadrirebbe

title: illeggiadrirebbe


text: illeggiadriremmo

title: illeggiadriremmo


text: illeggiadrireste

title: illeggiadrireste


text: illeggiadrirebbero

title: illeggiadrirebbero


text: illeggiadrisca

title: illeggiadrisca


text: illeggiadriate

title: illeggiadriate


text: illeggiadriscano

title: illeggiadriscano


text: illeggiadrissi

title: illeggiadrissi


text: illeggiadrisse

title: illeggiadrisse


text: illeggiadrissimo

title: illeggiadrissimo


text: illeggiadrissero

title: illeggiadrissero


text: illeggiadrirmi

title: illeggiadrirmi


text: illeggiadrirti

title: illeggiadrirti


text: illeggiadrirci

title: illeggiadrirci


text: illeggiadrirvi

title: illeggiadrirvi


text: illeggiadrendosi

title: illeggiadrendosi


text: illeggiadrendomi

title: illeggiadrendomi


text: illeggiadrendoti

title: illeggiadrendoti


text: illeggiadrendoci

title: illeggiadrendoci


text: illeggiadrendovi

title: illeggiadrendovi


text: illeggiadrisciti

title: illeggiadrisciti


text: illeggiadriamoci

title: illeggiadriamoci


text: illeggiadritevi

title: illeggiadritevi


text:
illibertà

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) lack of liberty or freedom

title: illibertà


text:
illimitatezza

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) unlimitedness

title: illimitatezza


text: Category:Dutch childish terms

title: Category:Dutch childish terms


text: Category:Middle Dutch compound terms

title: Category:Middle Dutch compound terms


text:
Illiria

Proper noun

 * 1) Illyria

title: Illiria


text:
illirico

Adjective

 * 1) Illyrian

title: illirico


text: Category:Dutch intensifiers

title: Category:Dutch intensifiers


text:
illocutivo

Adjective

 * 1)  illocutionary

title: illocutivo


text: Category:Dutch determiner comparative forms


text:
illocuzione

Noun

 * 1) illocution

title: illocuzione


text:
illogicamente

Etymology
From or.

Adverb

 * 1) illogically

title: illogicamente


text:
illuminamento

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) illumination
 * 2)  illuminance

title: illuminamento


text:
illuminatore

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) illuminator

title: illuminatore


text:
illuminometro

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) illuminometer

title: illuminometro


text:
funbox

Noun

 * 1)  A feature of a skatepark consisting of a tabletop connected to ramps and sometimes other features.

Translations

 * Finnish: funboksi

title: funbox


text: funboxes

title: funboxes


text:
glasswashing

Noun

 * 1) The washing of drinking-glasses.

title: glasswashing


text: tularaemia

title: tularaemia


text: Category:Ossetian particles

title: Category:Ossetian particles


text: Category:Buginese particles

title: Category:Buginese particles


text: Category:Nigerian Pidgin particles

title: Category:Nigerian Pidgin particles


text: Category:Toki Pona particles

title: Category:Toki Pona particles


text: tabletting

title: tabletting


text:
illuminometer

Noun

 * 1) An instrument that is used to measure the intensity of illumination

title: illuminometer


text: Category:Latvian particles

title: Category:Latvian particles


text: illuminometers

title: illuminometers


text:
illuminotecnica

Noun

 * 1) lighting engineering

title: illuminotecnica


text: Category:Old High German prefixes

title: Category:Old High German prefixes


text: photogrammetrical

title: photogrammetrical


text:
operationalistic

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to operationalism.

title: operationalistic


text: Category:Old High German noun forms

title: Category:Old High German noun forms


text:
illuminotecnico

Noun

 * 1) lighting engineer

title: illuminotecnico


text: pseudomedicine

title: pseudomedicine


text: Category:Old Norse pronoun forms

title: Category:Old Norse pronoun forms


text:
pseudomedical

Adjective

 * 1) Apparently, but not actually, medical; posing as medicine.

title: pseudomedical


text: Category:Old Norse interjections

title: Category:Old Norse interjections


text: Category:Old Norse idioms

title: Category:Old Norse idioms


text:
illusionistico

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  conjuring
 * 2) illusionistic

title: illusionistico


text:
physicomedical

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to the physical aspects of medicine.

title: physicomedical


text: Category:Old Norse abbreviations

title: Category:Old Norse abbreviations


text: Category:Old Norse uncountable nouns

title: Category:Old Norse uncountable nouns


text: Category:Old Norse prefixes

title: Category:Old Norse prefixes


text:
amla

Etymology
Borrowed from, from. .

Noun

 * , a deciduous tree.
 * 1) the bitter yellow-green fruit of this tree.
 * 1) the bitter yellow-green fruit of this tree.
 * 1) the bitter yellow-green fruit of this tree.

Translations

 * Arabic: أَمْلَج
 * Bengali: আমলকি,, , আমলাতি, আমলাতী
 * Burmese:
 * Czech: smuteň lékařská
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: amblapuu
 * Gujarati: આમળું
 * Hindi: आंवला, ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Japanese: アムラ, 阿摩勒, 油柑
 * Malay: melaka
 * Persian:, املگ, امیله
 * Polish:, agrest indyjski, amla
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai: มะขามป้อม

 * Arabic: أَمْلَج
 * Assamese: আমলখি
 * Bengali: আমলা,
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 油柑子
 * Mandarin: 餘甘子
 * German: aschfarbige Myrobalane
 * Gujarati: આમળું
 * Hindi: आंवला, ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Kannada:
 * Malay: melaka
 * Malayalam:
 * Manipuri: ꯍꯩꯀ꯭ꯔꯨ
 * Marathi: आवळा
 * Newar: अम्बः
 * Odia:
 * Persian:, املگ, امیله
 * Polish: amla
 * Punjabi: ਆਂਵਲਾ
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali: ᱢᱮᱨᱟᱞ
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: มะขามป้อม
 * Tulu: ನೆಲ್ಲಿಕಾಯಿ

title: amla


text: amlas

title: amlas


text:
calfbound

Adjective

 * 1) Bound in calfskin.

title: calfbound


text: Category:Ellipses by language

title: Category:Ellipses by language


text:
daylife

Noun

 * 1) Recreational activities that can be done during the day.

title: daylife


text:
ilozoismo

Noun

 * 1) hylozoism

title: ilozoismo


text:
designerly

Adjective

 * 1) Characteristic of a designer.

title: designerly


text:
eclectism

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) eclecticism

title: eclectism


text:
ilozoista

Noun

 * 1) hylozoist

title: ilozoista


text:
exfoliator

Noun

 * 1) An exfoliant.

title: exfoliator


text: exfoliators

title: exfoliators


text: hegelismi

title: hegelismi


text: hitlerismi

title: hitlerismi


text:
fissionability

Noun

 * 1) The quality or degree of being fissionable.

Translations

 * Romanian: fisionabilitate

title: fissionability


text: hockeisti

title: hockeisti


text: fissionabilities

title: fissionabilities


text: hockeiste

title: hockeiste


text: iafetidi

title: iafetidi


text: iattanze

title: iattanze


text: iberisti

title: iberisti


text: iberiste

title: iberiste


text: ibridatori

title: ibridatori


text: ibridismi

title: ibridismi


text: icneumoni

title: icneumoni


text: icneumonidi

title: icneumonidi


text:
icnografie

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) ichnography

title: icnografie


text: idalghi

title: idalghi


text:
idre

Noun

 * 1)  liver

title: idre


text: idrazoni

title: idrazoni


text: idrie

title: idrie


text: ietografi

title: ietografi


text: ietogramme

title: ietogramme


text: igienizzazioni

title: igienizzazioni


text: ignifugazioni

title: ignifugazioni


text: iguanodonti

title: iguanodonti


text: himalaiana

title: himalaiana


text: illanguidimenti

title: illanguidimenti


text: himalaiani

title: himalaiani


text: illegalismi

title: illegalismi


text: illimitatezze

title: illimitatezze


text: himalaiane

title: himalaiane


text: illocuzioni

title: illocuzioni


text: hockeistica

title: hockeistica


text: illuminamenti

title: illuminamenti


text: hockeistici

title: hockeistici


text: illuminatori

title: illuminatori


text: illuminometri

title: illuminometri


text: hockeistiche

title: hockeistiche


text: illuminotecniche

title: illuminotecniche


text: iafetica

title: iafetica


text: illuminotecnici

title: illuminotecnici


text: iafetici

title: iafetici


text: ilozoismi

title: ilozoismi


text: ilozoisti

title: ilozoisti


text: iafetiche

title: iafetiche


text: ilozoiste

title: ilozoiste


text: ibera

title: ibera


text: iberi

title: iberi


text:
ibere

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) breast, teat

title: ibere


text: icaria

title: icaria


text:
icari

Noun

 * 1)  nest

title: icari


text: icarie

title: icarie


text: ignifera

title: ignifera


text: igniferi

title: igniferi


text: ignifere

title: ignifere


text: ileali

title: ileali


text: ileocecali

title: ileocecali


text: illirica

title: illirica


text: illirici

title: illirici


text: illiriche

title: illiriche


text: illocutiva

title: illocutiva


text: illocutivi

title: illocutivi


text: illusionistica

title: illusionistica


text: illusionistici

title: illusionistici


text: illusionistiche

title: illusionistiche


text:
selective yellow

Noun

 * 1) A standardized colour for automotive lamps, intended to improve vision by removing blue wavelengths from the projected light.

title: selective yellow


text:
foglamp

Noun

 * 1) A wide automotive lamp intended to increase visibility in poor weather conditions.

title: foglamp


text: foglamps

title: foglamps


text: foglights

title: foglights


text:
henfest

Noun

 * 1)  A rowdy party for women.

title: henfest


text: henfests

title: henfests


text:
iaido

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A Japanese martial art associated with the smooth, controlled movements of drawing the sword from its scabbard, striking or cutting an opponent, removing blood from the blade, and then replacing the sword in the scabbard.

title: iaido


text:
Henman

Etymology
A variant of, or an altered form of.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Henman is the 41426th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 525 individuals. Henman is most common among White (90.48%) individuals.

title: Henman


text:
imidazolidinyl urea

Noun

 * 1) An antimicrobial preservative used in cosmetics.

title: imidazolidinyl urea


text: larbs

title: larbs


text: looksist

title: looksist


text: looksists

title: looksists


text: looksism

title: looksism


text:
microdistributor

Noun

 * 1) A small-scale distributor.

title: microdistributor


text: microdistributors

title: microdistributors


text:
miniburger

Noun

 * 1) A small burger.

title: miniburger


text: miniburgers

title: miniburgers


text: mumsies

title: mumsies


text:
nannylike

Adjective

 * 1) Resembling or characteristic of a nanny.

title: nannylike


text: negotiables

title: negotiables


text:
policemanlike

Adjective

 * 1) Resembling or characteristic of a policeman.

title: policemanlike


text:
neuromotor

Adjective

 * 1) Pertaining to the relationship between the nervous system and movement.

Translations

 * Catalan: neuromotor
 * Irish: néarluaileach

title: neuromotor


text:
paneless

Adjective

 * 1) Without a pane.

title: paneless


text:
ponyskin

Noun

 * 1) The skin of a pony.

title: ponyskin


text: ponyskins

title: ponyskins


text:
pruriently

Adverb

 * 1) In a prurient manner.

title: pruriently


text:
showerlike

Adjective

 * 1) Resembling or characteristic of a shower (bathroom fitting).

title: showerlike


text: smoulderingly

title: smoulderingly


text:
smolderingly

Adverb

 * 1) With repressed anger or passion.

title: smolderingly


text:
sneakerlike

Adjective

 * 1) Resembling or characteristic of sneakers.

title: sneakerlike


text:
Yngvarr

Etymology
Probably from. The first part (*Ingu-, Yngv-) is from. The second part (*harjaR, -arr) stems from.

title: Yngvarr


text:
spearfisher

Noun

 * 1) One who fishes with a spear.

Derived terms

 * spearfishery

Translations

 * German: Speerfischer, Speerfischerin

title: spearfisher


text: spearfishers

title: spearfishers


text:
stolovaya

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A basic, utilitarian cafeteria in Soviet Russia.

title: stolovaya


text: stolovayas

title: stolovayas


text:
servicemember

Noun

 * 1) A serviceman or servicewoman.

title: servicemember


text: servicemembers

title: servicemembers


text:
ultrafeminine

Adjective

 * 1) Highly feminine.

title: ultrafeminine


text: drag-net

title: drag-net


text: dollybird

title: dollybird


text: dollybirds

title: dollybirds


text:
nieśmiały

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) shy, timid

title: nieśmiały


text: drag-nets

title: drag-nets


text: fingerpointing

title: fingerpointing


text:
miniclimax

Noun

 * 1) A minor climax.

title: miniclimax


text: miniclimaxes

title: miniclimaxes


text:
suburbanize

Verb

 * 1)  To make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.

Translations

 * German:

title: suburbanize


text: suburbanized

title: suburbanized


text: suburbanizes

title: suburbanizes


text: suburbanizing

title: suburbanizing


text: topspinning

title: topspinning


text: backspun

title: backspun


text: backspinning

title: backspinning


text:
自相

Adverb

 * 1)  mutually; each other

Usage notes
This is used before a disyllabic verb to indicate that the action is occurring to oneself or within a group.

title: 自相


text:
Knútr

Etymology
Probably from Old Norse, originally a byname.

title: Knútr


text:
brodawnik

Noun

 * 1) hawkbit

Noun

 * 1) any asity of the genus
 * 2)  family

title: brodawnik


text:
przekwitać

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to wither, to lose blossom
 * 2)  to lose one's youthful appearance
 * 3)  to wither
 * 4)  to go through menopause

title: przekwitać


text:
Leifr

Etymology
Short form of Old Norse given names that contain Old Norse.

title: Leifr


text: Template:pl-conj-ap-nąć

title: Template:pl-conj-ap-nąć


text:
причест

Noun

 * 1)  Communion, Eucharist

Noun

 * 1)  Communion

title: причест


text:
Oddr

Etymology
Short form of compound names with the Old Norse element.

title: Oddr