text: Category:Amharic lemmas

title: Category:Amharic lemmas


text: Category:kw:History

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Category:kw:History


text: Category:sq:Fiction

title: Category:sq:Fiction


text: Category:arc:Mass media

title: Category:arc:Mass media


text:
Appendix:Variations of "mor"

The word “mor” appears in many languages with many variations in the use of capitalization, punctuation, and use of diacritics.

Capitalization and punctuation

 * mor
 * Mor
 * MOR

Diacritics

 * moř
 * mór, Mór, mór-
 * mòr, Mòr
 * môr
 * mör
 * mør
 * mɵr

Other scripts

 * Armenian
 * մոր (mor)
 * մոռ (moṙ)
 * մօր (mōr)
 * մօռ (mōṙ)

 * Cyrillic
 * мор (mor), Мор (Mor), МОР (MOR)
 * мөр (mör)

 * Mongolian
 * ᡏᡈᠷ (mör)

Homophones

 * Mohr
 * moor
 * Moor
 * Moore
 * more
 * More

fr:Modèle:voir/mor

title: Appendix:Variations of "mor"


text:
cis-gender

Adjective

 * 1) * 2014, Toni K. Troop, quoted in Irene Monroe, In 2014, Still Not Independence Day for Women, Huffington Post
 * I woke up angered that the reproductive health of all of us -- LGBQ/T, straight, cis-gender -- is not valued and our rights not ensured.
 * I woke up angered that the reproductive health of all of us -- LGBQ/T, straight, cis-gender -- is not valued and our rights not ensured.

title: cis-gender


text:
ar aon chaoi

Adverb

 * 1) at any rate, anyway, anyhow, in any case

title: ar aon chaoi


text: ærlige

title: ærlige


text: ærligt

title: ærligt


text: aríst

title: aríst


text:
-astrum

Etymology
From.

title: -astrum


text:
Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-θkweni

Etymology
From, whence also 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. The term was always possessed, and in some languages (including Yurok) the third-person prefix was incorporated into the stem.

Noun

 * 1) liver

Descendants

 * Plains Algonquian:
 * Central Algonquian:
 * /-ᐢᑲᐧᐣ, -skon/-ᐢᑯᐣ
 * (nikon, okon)
 * Fox (Sauk): -hkoni
 * Eastern Algonquian:
 * Fox (Sauk): -hkoni
 * Eastern Algonquian:
 * Eastern Algonquian:

title: Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-θkweni


text: Category:Latin terms suffixed with -astrum


text:
salicastrum

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a kind of wild vine found in willow-thickets

title: salicastrum


text:
Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/aʔsenya

Alternative forms

 * *aʔsenyi

Noun

 * 1) stone, rock

Descendants

 * Central Algonquian:
 * Eastern Algonquian: *ahsən
 * Eastern Algonquian: *ahsən
 * Eastern Algonquian: *ahsən
 * Eastern Algonquian: *ahsən
 * Eastern Algonquian: *ahsən
 * Eastern Algonquian: *ahsən
 * Eastern Algonquian: *ahsən
 * Eastern Algonquian: *ahsən
 * Eastern Algonquian: *ahsən
 * Eastern Algonquian: *ahsən
 * Eastern Algonquian: *ahsən

Compare Cheyenne,.

title: Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/aʔsenya


text: Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-a·peɬk-


text:
Talk:autochthonous

The expression "autochthonous transmission" is used in medicine/epidemiology to refer to disease spread from one individual and acquired in another individual in the same place. The relevance of this is that some diseases are spread by vectors such as mosquitoes. Climate change means that particular species of mosquitoes now survive in places where they didn't previously survive, or have spread to areas where they were not previously found or had previously been eliminated. As a consequence autochthonous transmission has occurred of e.g. chikungunya fever has occurred in the Americas, and malaria in Spain.

Autochthonous may also be used in medicine to mean "found in the place where it was formed", e.g. an autochthonous blood clot.

--Penglish (talk) 15:58, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

 * Interesting, thanks for the info! I've added an example of the phrase "autochthonous blood clot" to the second definition in the entry and expanded the definition a bit; I think it covers the "found in the place where it was formed" sense you mention. I'll look into "autochthonous transmission" and see if I think another sense needs to be added to the entry. - -sche (discuss) 16:14, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

title: Talk:autochthonous


text: cathaoireacha

title: cathaoireacha


text: blianta

title: blianta


text:
دوشك

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mattress

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mattress

Etymology 1
Ultimately from, the same root of.

Noun

 * 1) mat
 * 2) pad
 * 3) cushion
 * 4) mattress

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) miscarriage
 * 2) abortion
 * 3) an aborted fetus

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) couch, sofa

title: دوشك


text:
cisteanach

Etymology
From.

title: cisteanach


text: cisteanacha

title: cisteanacha


text:
-tzin

Suffix

 * 1)  An honorific or caressive suffix;.
 * 2)  A diminutive suffix;.
 * 1)  A diminutive suffix;.
 * 1)  A diminutive suffix;.
 * 1)  A diminutive suffix;.
 * 1)  A diminutive suffix;.

title: -tzin


text:
Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Help with Code 2

I tried editing the noun template to make it include the counted plural forms of masculine nouns, but nothing worked out in the end. I was hoping you could point out to me once again what the problem is this time.

Anyway, I wanted to create a code that would generate automatic counted plurals from masculine nouns by adding "-а" to the head (i.e. page name) as long as the fourth parameter is "1". I also wanted to be able to set the fourth parameter to some other stem, in which case a counted plural would be produced by adding "-a" to this stem rather than to the head. This is what I wanted to write and what it was supposed to be read as:

{{#ifeq:{{{1}}}|m >If the noun is masculine,

 * {{#ifeq:{{{4|}}}| >see if the the fourth parameter is equal to nothing and...

| >if so, do nothing;

|{{#ifeq:{{{4|}}}|1 >if not, see if the fourth parameter is equal to one and...

|countable plural {{l|mk|{{{head|}}}а|tr=-}} >if so, generate an automatic counted plural by adding "-а" to the head (i.e. page name);

|countable plural {{l|mk|{{{4|}}}а|tr=-}}}} >if not, generate a counted plural by adding "-a" to the contents of the fourth parameter.

 * }} >If the noun is not masculine, don't do anything.

By the way, I wrote it like this:

{{#ifeq:{{{1}}}|m|{{#ifeq:{{{4|}}}|||{{#ifeq:{{{4|}}}|1|counted plural {{l|mk|{{{head|}}}а|tr=-}}|counted plural {{l|mk|{{{4|}}}а|tr=-}}}}|}}

I added spaces above to be able to explain better.

Anyway, nothing worked and no forms were generated. Nothing seems to have been messed up, but nothing has been created other. So, how should I do what I intended to do properly? I have no doubt that you have a much simpler solution to the problem than what I wanted to write myself.

P.S. What do  -->  and  <!--  mean?


text: Category:Scots blends

title: Category:Scots blends


text: kystlinja

title: kystlinja


text:
Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Help with Code 2/reply

The indicate a commented section of text. They are removed from the code before the template is expanded, and so is everything in between. This can be used to add notes to other editors into the template, but they are also used to remove line endings from the template code while still making it readable. Without the comment tags, the line endings would be included in the template code, which sometimes causes problems.

Do you think it would be better to include the countable plural in the inflection table?


text:
cuauhchimalli

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) wooden shield

title: cuauhchimalli


text: quauhchimalli

title: quauhchimalli


text:
Terrestrian

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to Earth or its inhabitants; of terrestrial origin.

Noun

 * 1) An inhabitant of Earth; a human.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:Earthling
 * See also Thesaurus:Earthling
 * See also Thesaurus:Earthling
 * See also Thesaurus:Earthling

Antonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:extraterrestrial
 * See also Thesaurus:extraterrestrial
 * See also Thesaurus:extraterrestrial

title: Terrestrian


text: Terrestrians

title: Terrestrians


text: kystlinjene

title: kystlinjene


text:
Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Help with Code 2/reply (2)

I thought about adding the counted plural in the inflection table too, but there's no place to add it. If we make a new column for it, it will seem ridiculous, because it will be just one term spanning across five rows, in a column as wide as the rest (the counted plural is only a single form and can't receive any definite articles or have vocative forms - it simply occurs after numerals and some numeral determiners such as the word ""). If we make a new row for it, it will look unsightly again, because we will have an information related to grammatical number in a row, whereas the singular and plural are otherwise in columns. If you know a better place to put the counted plural, suggest it, and we'll see if it works.


text:
Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Help with Code 2/reply (3)

Why not make it a row instead of a column? We can leave the singular equivalent form empty, and fill in only the plural. This is how it's done in the Bulgarian templates too.


text:
Terrestrial

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) An inhabitant of the planet Earth.

Synonyms

 * ,, , see Thesaurus:Earthling

Antonyms

 * ,, see also Thesaurus:extraterrestrial

title: Terrestrial


text: Terrestrials

title: Terrestrials


text:
desnetigar

Verb

 * 1)  to befoul, mess, draggle, blot, soil

title: desnetigar


text: linjene

title: linjene


text: cloig

title: cloig


text: cloganna

title: cloganna


text:
apiastrum

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Wild parsley.
 * 2) balm.

title: apiastrum


text: kystene

title: kystene


text: Tellurians

title: Tellurians


text:
monetigar

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to monetize

title: monetigar


text:
cupla

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1) to couple

title: cupla


text:
desmonetigar

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to demonetize

title: desmonetigar


text:
mentastrum

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) wild mint.

title: mentastrum


text:
Earthie

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  An inhabitant of the Earth.

Synonyms

 * ,, , see also Thesaurus:Earthling

Antonyms

 * ,, see also Thesaurus:extraterrestrial

title: Earthie


text: Earthies

title: Earthies


text:
alevosía

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) treachery

title: alevosía


text: éanacha

title: éanacha


text:
Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wailannā

Etymology
Schrijver explains as "the wailer", from. For a similar formation compare. However the suffix is still. Ultimately.

Noun

 * 1) seagull

Descendants

 * Goidelic:
 * Goidelic:
 * Goidelic:
 * Goidelic:
 * Goidelic:
 * Goidelic:
 * Goidelic:
 * Goidelic:
 * Goidelic:
 * Goidelic:
 * Goidelic:
 * Goidelic:
 * Goidelic:

title: Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wailannā


text:
基因組

Noun

 * 1)  genome

title: 基因組


text:
thank you card

Noun

 * 1) A card written as a thank you to someone, usually in response to receiving a gift or having been invited to attend an event.

Translations

 * Danish: takkekoret
 * Japanese: サンキューカード, お礼用のカード
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: takkekort
 * Nynorsk: takkekort

title: thank you card


text:
næringsstoff

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a nutrient

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a nutrient

title: næringsstoff


text:
Earthgirl

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  A young female inhabitant of Earth.

Hypernyms

 * ,, for more see Thesaurus:Earthling

title: Earthgirl


text: Earthgirls

title: Earthgirls


text: Thesaurus:Earthling

title: Thesaurus:Earthling


text:
desmoblizar

Verb

 * 1)  to unfurnish

title: desmoblizar


text:
acalmaitl

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) flank of a ship

title: acalmaitl


text:
Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/meʔ-

Prefix

 * 1) someone's;

Descendants

 * (showing the hardening of the proto-Algic nasal m to the stop b)
 * (showing the hardening of the proto-Algic nasal m to the stop b)

title: Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/meʔ-


text: Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/m-

title: Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/m-


text: Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/met-

title: Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/met-


text: father-figure

title: father-figure


text:
moblo

Etymology
Borrowed from, , , , , all ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) piece of furniture

title: moblo


text:
moblaro

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) household goods, furnishing

title: moblaro


text:
moblizita

Adjective

 * 1) furnished

title: moblizita


text:
moblala

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) relating to furniture

title: moblala


text:
moblizar

Verb

 * 1)  to furnish

title: moblizar


text: desmoblizita

title: desmoblizita


text:
Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Help with Code 2/reply (4)

All right, fine. It won't be ideal but it will work. I'll call it "count form" instead of "counted plural", just like in the Bulgarian template.


text:
desmastizar

Verb

 * 1)  to dismast

title: desmastizar


text:
pineapple bun

Noun

 * 1) A sweet bun, mainly popular in Hong Kong and Macau, with a crunchy sugary topping that has a checkered pattern resembling the epicarp of a pineapple.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 菠蘿包
 * Mandarin: 菠蘿包
 * Finnish: ananaspulla
 * Japanese: 菠蘿包
 * Korean: 보로바우, 파인애플빵

title: pineapple bun


text: pineapple buns

title: pineapple buns


text: højs

title: højs


text:
Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/mehši

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) piece of firewood

Descendants

 * Plains Algonquian:
 * probably Blackfoot (in the plural, "firewood")
 * Central Algonquian:
 * Moose Cree: ,
 * Eastern Algonquian:
 * possibly Unami
 * Moose Cree: ,
 * Eastern Algonquian:
 * possibly Unami
 * Eastern Algonquian:
 * possibly Unami
 * possibly Unami

title: Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/mehši


text:
dessalizar

Verb

 * 1)  to desalinate, desalinize

title: dessalizar


text: Ember

title: Ember


text:
Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/mehše

Noun

 * 1) fire

title: Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/mehše


text:
desrigidigar

Verb

 * 1)  to make pliant, unstiffen

title: desrigidigar


text: næringsstoffet

title: næringsstoffet


text: tokheses

title: tokheses


text: Category:Irish clippings

title: Category:Irish clippings


text:
fón

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) phon unit of apparent loudness
 * 2) phone speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) phone speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties

Etymology 1
and/or borrowing from.

Noun

 * 1) phone telephone

Declension

 * Alternative plural:

title: fón


text:
despilizar

Verb

 * 1)  to depilate

title: despilizar


text: næringsstoffer

title: næringsstoffer


text:
despakigar

Verb

 * 1)  to unpack

title: despakigar


text:
Shevardnadze

Etymology
From.

Translations

 * Armenian: Շեւարդնաձե
 * Azerbaijani: Şevardnadze
 * Georgian: შევარდნაძე
 * Romanian: Șevarnadze
 * Russian:
 * Turkish: Şevardnadze

title: Shevardnadze


text: fóin

title: fóin


text: fónanna

title: fónanna


text: næringsstoffa

title: næringsstoffa


text: næringsstoffene

title: næringsstoffene


text:
man with no name

Noun

 * 1) A quiet, eccentric, antihero, especially in movie Westerns.

title: man with no name


text:
Appendix:Variations of "fon"

The word “fon” appears in many languages with many variations in the use of capitalization, punctuation, and diacritics.

Capitalization and punctuation

 * fon
 * Fon
 * FON
 * -fon

Diacritics

 * fōn
 * fón, fó'n, -fón
 * fòn
 * fôn
 * fön, Fön
 * főn
 * føn

Other scripts

 * Cyrillic
 * фон

 * Gothic
 * 𐍆𐍉𐌽

 * Lao
 * ຝົນ

 * Thai
 * ฝน

Homophones

 * ffôn
 * foehn
 * fohn
 * fonn
 * foon
 * phon
 * phone
 * -phone

fr:Modèle:voir/fon

title: Appendix:Variations of "fon"


title: Template:nb-noun-n3/documentation


title: Template:nb-noun-n1/documentation


title: Template:nb-noun-m2/documentation


title: Template:nb-noun-n2/documentation


text: nauh ylhuitl

title: nauh ylhuitl


title: Template:nn-noun-f3/documentation


title: Template:nn-noun-f2/documentation


title: Template:nn-noun-m2/documentation


title: Template:nn-noun-m3/documentation


text:
nauhxihuitl

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A period of four years.

title: nauhxihuitl


text: nauh xiuitl

title: nauh xiuitl


text:
gloiní

Etymology 1
From. .

Adjective

 * 1) glassy, vitreous, crystalline, clear

Noun

 * 1) glasses, spectacles
 * 1) glasses, spectacles

title: gloiní


text: gloiniúcha

title: gloiniúcha


text: stoffet

title: stoffet


text:
Mănescu

Etymology
From.

title: Mănescu


text:
unoverlooked

Adjective

 * 1) Not overlooked; not seen from above.

title: unoverlooked


text: Category:English modules

title: Category:English modules


text: Category:Modules by language

title: Category:Modules by language


text: leapacha

title: leapacha


text: Category:Afrikaans modules

title: Category:Afrikaans modules


text: Category:Catalan modules

title: Category:Catalan modules


text: stoffene

title: stoffene


text: Category:Spanish modules

title: Category:Spanish modules


text: Category:Persian modules

title: Category:Persian modules


text: Category:Armenian modules

title: Category:Armenian modules


text: Category:Middle Armenian modules

title: Category:Middle Armenian modules


text: Category:Old Armenian modules

title: Category:Old Armenian modules


text: Category:Avestan modules

title: Category:Avestan modules


text: Category:Middle Persian modules

title: Category:Middle Persian modules


text: Category:gag:Mammals

title: Category:gag:Mammals


text: Category:Norwegian Nynorsk modules

title: Category:Norwegian Nynorsk modules


text: Category:Norwegian Bokmål modules

title: Category:Norwegian Bokmål modules


text:
Antonescu

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
From.

title: Antonescu


text:
ubalanse

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) an imbalance

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) an imbalance

title: ubalanse


text:
Năstăsescu

Etymology
From.

title: Năstăsescu


text: Category:Dutch modules

title: Category:Dutch modules


text:
Ceaușescu

Etymology
From.

title: Ceaușescu


text: ubalansen

title: ubalansen


text: ubalanser

title: ubalanser


text: ubalansene

title: ubalansene


text: ubalansar

title: ubalansar


text: ubalansane

title: ubalansane


text:
misreporter

Noun

 * 1) One who misreports.

title: misreporter


text: misreporters

title: misreporters


text:
Whitman's sampler

Etymology
From the brand name of a popular assortment of boxed chocolates marketed in the US. The company was named after its founder, Stephen Whitman of Philadelphia.

Noun

 * 1)  A diverse collection.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge
 * See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

title: Whitman's sampler


text:
遺傳子

Noun

 * 1)  gene

title: 遺傳子


text:
Bromelia

Etymology
, after (1639-1705), 🇨🇬 botanist,.

Hypernyms

 * ; - subfamily

Hyponyms

 * - type species; - lectotype;, , , , ,  - selected other species.
 * For more species and for synonyms and unresolved names see.

title: Bromelia


text: biànzi

title: biànzi


text: Whitman sampler

title: Whitman sampler


text: Whitman Sampler

title: Whitman Sampler


text: Whitman's Sampler

title: Whitman's Sampler


text: 遗传子

title: 遗传子


text: biānzi

title: biānzi


text:
婊子

Noun

 * 1)  female prostitute; whore
 * 2)  whore; bitch; slut

Synonyms

title: 婊子


text: 表子

title: 表子


text: biǎozi

title: biǎozi


text: piáochāng

title: piáochāng


text:
嫖客

Noun

 * 1) man who sees prostitutes; client of sex workers; brothel patron; john

Noun

 * 1) a customer of prostitutes; habitue of a red-light district

title: 嫖客


text: piáokè

title: piáokè


text:
嫖友

Noun

 * 1) a friend to see prostitutes with; a brothel buddy
 * 2)  patron of a brothel

title: 嫖友


text: piáoyǒu

title: piáoyǒu


text: 观止

title: 观止


text:
觀止

Verb

 * 1) to be good beyond comparison; to be the cream of the crop

title: 觀止


text: guānzhǐ

title: guānzhǐ


text:
ספֿרדיש

Adjective

 * 1) Sephardic

title: ספֿרדיש


text:
分子遺傳學

Noun

 * 1) molecular genetics

title: 分子遺傳學


text: ultrafiolette

title: ultrafiolette


text: Category:Norwegian Bokmål terms prefixed with ultra-


text: Category:Norwegian Nynorsk terms prefixed with ultra-


text: chitins

title: chitins


text:
nonchitinous

Adjective

 * 1) Not chitinous.

title: nonchitinous


text:
User talk:DLindsley

Your edits
Welcome to Wiktionary. Your edits have all been reverted due to their low quality. Please peruse WT:ELE before making any further changes. Discuss with other editors or on WT:ID if you are not sure how to format certain things. Thanks for your cooperation. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 23:13, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

 * Replied on your talk page. DLindsley (talk) 23:27, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

What Wiktionary is not
Your most recent edit to the Wiktionary has been reverted as vandalism, spam or for being unacceptable for any of various other reasons. Please desist, or else you may be blocked. Renard Migrant (talk) 19:45, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

 * I just needed a page so that everyone would know that Wiktionary is not the things that are listed on the page. DLindsley (talk) 19:47, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * What Wiktionary is not. This is an ideal candidate for Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense though. Renard Migrant (talk) 19:48, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for deleting the entry. Didn't realize there was an entry for this topic, but the search results said that there was no entries for the topic.

 * I searched "What Wiktionary is not", and it said that I could create the page, as it found no results. DLindsley (talk) 19:53, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Search only looks in the main namespace by default. 19:56, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * At least I know now. Thanks. DLindsley (talk) 19:57, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

title: User talk:DLindsley


text:
fiolett

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) violet, purple

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) violet, purple

title: fiolett


text: Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2014/July 9


text:
денно и нощно

Adverb

 * 1)  day and night all the time

title: денно и нощно


text: денно

title: денно


text: нощно

title: нощно


text: fiolette

title: fiolette


text: you're all right

title: you're all right


text: top-roped

title: top-roped


text: top-roping

title: top-roping


text:
go on then

Phrase

 * - Would you like another pint, mate?
 * - Yeah, go on then.
 * 1)  proceed
 * - I'm going to go and ask her on a date.
 * - Go on then.
 * - Go on then.

title: go on then


text: chalk bags

title: chalk bags


text: 布袋戏

title: 布袋戏


text:
布袋戲

Noun

 * 1)  a type of drama using cloth puppets originated in Southern Min-speaking regions of China; glove puppet show

title: 布袋戲


text:
traditional climbing

Noun

 * 1) A style of rock climbing in which the climbers place all gear required to protect against falls, and remove it when a passage is complete.

title: traditional climbing


text:
User:Kaspersu

I was born in April 1986, grew up in the Swedish-speaking archipelago of south-western Finland and currently live in Helsinki, where I study commercial law, work as a secretary and run my own business. I enjoy music in general and a cappella singing in particular, which may explain why I at one point ended up as the president of a choir.

title: User:Kaspersu


text:
User talk:189.41.38.155

Please READ the undo comment I put down for your change for BFF. Related terms means etymologically related. Top bud would be a synonym. So create a synonyms section and add the term there. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 00:28, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

title: User talk:189.41.38.155


text: User talk:Kaspersu

title: User talk:Kaspersu


text:
sport climbing

Noun

 * 1)  A sport developed from . A style of climbing in which the protection is in the form of permanently fixed bolts.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 運動攀登
 * Finnish: urheilukiipeily
 * Japanese: スポーツクライミング
 * Korean: 스포츠 클라이밍
 * Spanish: escalada deportiva

title: sport climbing


text: insuleti

title: insuleti


text:
חמאס

Etymology
.

title: חמאס


text:
lanun

Etymology
From a term for the, who were famed for their daring acts of piracy.

Noun

 * 1) pirate

title: lanun


text:
User:DCDuring/taxon

A taxonomic within the.

title: User:DCDuring/taxon


text:
nativar

Noun

 * 1) A  of a native plant species.

title: nativar


text:
Goryeo

Etymology
From the of. .

Proper noun

 * 1)  a Korean dynasty, a kingdom, which gave rise to the modern exonym for Korea.

Translations

 * Arabic: غُورْيُو, غُورْيُو
 * Armenian: Գորյո
 * Assamese: গৰেও
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Georgian: კორიო
 * German: Goryeo
 * Japanese: 高麗
 * Korean:
 * Mongolian: Курё,
 * Persian: گوریو
 * Russian:
 * Thai: โครยอ
 * Ukrainian: Корьо́
 * Vietnamese: Cao Ly (高麗)

title: Goryeo


text: Cao Ly

title: Cao Ly


text: 高句丽

title: 高句丽


text: Cao Câu Ly

title: Cao Câu Ly


text: fibrining

title: fibrining


text:
nocheztli

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) cochineal

title: nocheztli


text:
podrugivati

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1)  to mock somebody

title: podrugivati


text: Category:Mandarin modules

title: Category:Mandarin modules


text:
подругивати

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1)  to mock somebody

title: подругивати


text:
podrugnuti

Etymology
From.

title: podrugnuti


text:
подругнути

Etymology
From.

title: подругнути


text:
poruga

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) mockery, ridicule

title: poruga


text:
поруга

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) mockery, ridicule

title: поруга


text: Category:Burmese modules

title: Category:Burmese modules


text: Category:Sinhalese modules

title: Category:Sinhalese modules


text: Category:Hindi modules

title: Category:Hindi modules


text: Category:Hebrew modules

title: Category:Hebrew modules


text: Category:Ukrainian modules

title: Category:Ukrainian modules


text: Category:Belarusian modules

title: Category:Belarusian modules


text:
zajebavati

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to tease, fuck around, jerk around
 * 2)  to joke, jest
 * 3)  to fuck over, dick around
 * 1)  to fuck over, dick around
 * 1)  to fuck over, dick around

title: zajebavati


text: Category:Bulgarian modules

title: Category:Bulgarian modules


text:
зајебавати

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to tease, fuck around, jerk around
 * 2)  to joke, jest

title: зајебавати


text: Category:Macedonian modules

title: Category:Macedonian modules


text: Category:Polish modules

title: Category:Polish modules


text: Category:Vietnamese modules

title: Category:Vietnamese modules


text: Category:Arabic modules

title: Category:Arabic modules


text: Category:Georgian modules

title: Category:Georgian modules


text:
zajebati

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1)  to screw up, mess up, blow it
 * 2)  to fuck over, dick around
 * 1)  to fuck over, dick around

title: zajebati


text:
зајебати

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1)  to screw up, mess up, blow it

title: зајебати


text: Category:Finnish modules

title: Category:Finnish modules


text: Category:German modules

title: Category:German modules


text: Category:French modules

title: Category:French modules


text: Category:Slovene modules

title: Category:Slovene modules


text: Category:Serbo-Croatian modules

title: Category:Serbo-Croatian modules


text:
tzapaton

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) ; a dwarf.
 * 2) * Idem, f. 151v. col. 1.
 * Tzapaton. enanillo.
 * Tzapaton. a small dwarf.
 * Tzapaton. enanillo.
 * Tzapaton. a small dwarf.

title: tzapaton


text:
tzapa

Noun

 * 1) dwarf
 * 2) * Idem, f. 151v. col. 1.
 * Tzapa. enano.
 * Tzapa. a dwarf.
 * Tzapa. enano.
 * Tzapa. a dwarf.

title: tzapa


text:
Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₃yebʰ-

Root

 * 1) to enter into, penetrate
 * 2) to copulate

Derived terms

 * *h₃yébʰ-e-ti
 * *h₃yḗbʰ-s-t ~ *h₃yébʰ-s-n̥t
 * *h₃yémbʰ-ti ~ *h₃imbʰ-énti
 * *h₃yobʰ-éye-ti
 * *h₃yebʰ-o-s
 * *h₃yébʰ-wr̥ ~ *h₃ibʰ-wéns
 * *h₃yóbʰ-o-s
 * *h₃éybʰ-eh₂
 * Unsorted formations:
 * *h₃yobʰ-éye-ti
 * *h₃yebʰ-o-s
 * *h₃yébʰ-wr̥ ~ *h₃ibʰ-wéns
 * *h₃yóbʰ-o-s
 * *h₃éybʰ-eh₂
 * Unsorted formations:
 * *h₃yebʰ-o-s
 * *h₃yébʰ-wr̥ ~ *h₃ibʰ-wéns
 * *h₃yóbʰ-o-s
 * *h₃éybʰ-eh₂
 * Unsorted formations:
 * *h₃yébʰ-wr̥ ~ *h₃ibʰ-wéns
 * *h₃yóbʰ-o-s
 * *h₃éybʰ-eh₂
 * Unsorted formations:
 * *h₃yébʰ-wr̥ ~ *h₃ibʰ-wéns
 * *h₃yóbʰ-o-s
 * *h₃éybʰ-eh₂
 * Unsorted formations:
 * *h₃yébʰ-wr̥ ~ *h₃ibʰ-wéns
 * *h₃yóbʰ-o-s
 * *h₃éybʰ-eh₂
 * Unsorted formations:
 * *h₃yóbʰ-o-s
 * *h₃éybʰ-eh₂
 * Unsorted formations:
 * *h₃éybʰ-eh₂
 * Unsorted formations:
 * *h₃éybʰ-eh₂
 * Unsorted formations:
 * Unsorted formations:
 * Unsorted formations:
 * Unsorted formations:
 * Unsorted formations:
 * Unsorted formations:
 * Unsorted formations:
 * Unsorted formations:
 * Unsorted formations:


text:
tzapatzin

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) ; a dwarf.

title: tzapatzin


text:
alicastrum

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) early-ripening variety of.
 * 2) summer spelt.

title: alicastrum


text:
dimentia

Etymology
Misspelling of influenced by.

title: dimentia


text:
dimensia

Etymology
Misspelling of influenced by.

title: dimensia


text: dimented

title: dimented


text:
Reconstruction talk:Proto-Indo-European/h₃yebʰ-

Reminds me of Appendix:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/nup ~ nip... Wyang (talk) 04:24, 9 July 2014 (UTC)


text:
musclesome

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  Characterised by muscularity or having muscles; musclebound

title: musclesome


text:
séanach

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  happy, prosperous

title: séanach


text:
rapistrum

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) wild rape.

title: rapistrum


text: 重发

title: 重发


text:
重發

Verb

 * 1) to resend

title: 重發


text: chóngfā

title: chóngfā


text: suǒyǒuzhě

title: suǒyǒuzhě


text:
領悟

Verb

 * 1)  to understand; to comprehend; to grasp (something not easily understood); to realize

title: 領悟


text: 领悟

title: 领悟


text:
碘酒

Noun

 * 1) tincture of iodine

title: 碘酒


text:
碘酊

Noun

 * 1) tincture of iodine

title: 碘酊


text: diǎndīng

title: diǎndīng


text: diǎnjiǔ

title: diǎnjiǔ


text: mièjūn

title: mièjūn


text:
共事

Verb

 * 1) to work together

title: 共事


text: gòngshì

title: gòngshì


text:
γύρω

Etymology
From, from (accusative ).

Adverb

 * 1) around, close by in the locality of
 * 2) around, approximately
 * 3) around
 * 1) around

title: γύρω


text: zuòshì

title: zuòshì


text: 作事

title: 作事


text:
πανομοιότυπος

Adjective

 * 1) identical

title: πανομοιότυπος


text:
send someone to the showers

Verb

 * 1)  To remove a player from a particular team competition before the conclusion of the event, especially because that player's contribution on this occasion has been below his or her expected level of performance.
 * 2)  To remove or expel someone from a job, position, or activity, especially because of poor behavior or performance.
 * 1)  To remove or expel someone from a job, position, or activity, especially because of poor behavior or performance.
 * 1)  To remove or expel someone from a job, position, or activity, especially because of poor behavior or performance.
 * 1)  To remove or expel someone from a job, position, or activity, especially because of poor behavior or performance.
 * 1)  To remove or expel someone from a job, position, or activity, especially because of poor behavior or performance.

title: send someone to the showers


text: højens

title: højens


text: séin

title: séin


text: højes

title: højes


text: séana

title: séana


text: xièyào

title: xièyào


text:
孕期

Noun

 * 1)  gestational age
 * 2)  duration of pregnancy; gestation period

title: 孕期


text: yùnqī

title: yùnqī


text: yùnqí

title: yùnqí


text: 摄入

title: 摄入


text:
攝入

Verb

 * 1) to take in; to consume; to absorb

title: 攝入


text: shèrù

title: shèrù


text:
足量

Noun

 * 1) sufficient or full amount or dosage

title: 足量


text: zúliàng

title: zúliàng


text: shèfǎ

title: shèfǎ


text: lǐngwù

title: lǐngwù


text:
znosić

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to carry down, to bring down
 * 2)  to abolish, to lift
 * 3)  to bear, to stand, to endure
 * 4)  to cancel out
 * 5)  to anhor, to detest, to hate, to resent
 * 6)  to anhor each other, to detest each other, to hate each other, to resent each other
 * 1)  to anhor each other, to detest each other, to hate each other, to resent each other
 * 1)  to anhor each other, to detest each other, to hate each other, to resent each other

title: znosić


text:
calcagn

Etymology
From, possibly a borrowing or semi-learned term, or alternatively through the intermediate of Italian.

Noun

 * 1)  heel

title: calcagn


text:
хатта

Etymology 1
From.

Compare to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) even
 * 2) very much, greatly
 * 1) very much, greatly
 * 1) very much, greatly
 * 1) very much, greatly

title: хатта


text:
muscleful

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Full of or having a lot of muscles; muscular.

title: muscleful


text:
Talitridae

Etymology
(from ).

Hyponyms

 * ; - subclass;  - superorder;  - order;  - suborder;  - superfamily

Hyponyms

 * For species see or.

title: Talitridae


text:
talitrum

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a rap or flick with the finger.

title: talitrum


text: ejecutables

title: ejecutables


text: opositoras

title: opositoras


text: opositora

title: opositora


text:
rockero

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) rock related to rock music

Noun

 * 1) rocker musician who plays rock music
 * 2) rocker someone passionate about rock music

title: rockero


text: rockeros

title: rockeros


text: sufragios

title: sufragios


text:
sudoccidental

Adjective

 * 1) southwestern

title: sudoccidental


text:
suroccidental

Adjective

 * 1) southwestern

title: suroccidental


text: suroccidentales

title: suroccidentales


text: sudoccidentales

title: sudoccidentales


text:
tricentenario

Adjective

 * 1) tricentennial

Noun

 * 1) tricentenary

title: tricentenario


text: tricentenarios

title: tricentenarios


text:
Wiktionary:Information desk/2014/August

philandry
This is surely a non-word which has found its way here and needs to be deleted. Bjenks (talk) 07:16, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * You can request verification here if you want, but I assure you it fits our criteria. It probably needs a label indicating its uncommonness though. — Ungoliant (falai) 08:38, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Spam blacklist hits
So I saw there is a log of spam blacklist hits...but how does this work, how is it configured? I happened upon this but it seems to have nothing on it.. User: PalkiaX50 talk to meh 13:21, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Special:AbuseFilter. (A URL blacklist would be quite ineffective at catching spam anyway.) — Keφr 15:33, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

HELP FOR MAKING AN INFLECTION BOT FOR TAGALOG
Hi I want to make an inflection bot for Tagalog. I understand the grammar very well, but I just don't understand how to make a bot for it. Can someone help me make it? It's very alright if you don't speak Tagalog, I can and I know how to conjugate verbs, so I'll just explain to whoever's willing to help me. Thank you very much in advanceǃ
 * Hi. You mean an inflection table like the one in kaino? What forms of Tagalog verbs should be listed? Could you please list all the forms of some example verbs, such as kain? Wyang (talk) 23:38, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Monkey selfie
It seems that the famous macaque selfie has become quite the bone of contention. It's been spreading very quickly across various Wikipedias and recently it ended up in selfie (below an astronaut). I dispute its relevance in a dictionary. Others disagree. Any regulars care to weigh in on the matter?

Peter Isotalo 18:43, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * If it's a real selfie, then it's definitely relevant. But I think if we can find a human selfie it would be better. —CodeCat 19:16, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Images should show a typical example of the definiendum, not a rare and exceptional one. — Ungoliant (falai) 22:36, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Which is why we have an astronaut's selfie in the English section. — Keφr 11:09, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

 * There's a selection of four human selfies at talk:selfie if anyone feels like switching or adding one.
 * Peter Isotalo 19:49, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

New Mexico entry
Hi, in the IPA key of these words, there is a mistake, so I'd like to contribute. The stress is lacking between New and Mexico. I'm very thankful if you take it into account, please, because I'm Uruguayan and I'll be pleased if you accept my help. Bye

Ideas for recruiting Wiktionary contributions at a local edit-a-thon?
On August 24 there will be a Westchester County, NY edit-a-thon, principally for WP, of course. It is potentially a chance to increase exposure of Wiktionary to potential contributors and to reduce barriers to contribution. The focus is very local, which is not really a good fit with the core of what attestable language is about, but provides some entry points for Wiktionary. Toponyms seem like an obvious, though limited way of exemplifying entries, as do entries for local flora (taxonomic and vernacular names). I can try regional terms, referencing the Dictionary of American Regional English.

Does anyone have any other ideas? DCDuring TALK 23:24, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Editing "Tea room"
Previously I could edit Tea room, but now I seem not to be able to (no "Edit" links are displayed). I do seem to be able to edit dictionary entries -- well, certainly a couple I've tried recently have worked. I am a very sporadic contributor though. Any ideas about Tea room? 86.128.4.242 03:23, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Spanish words ending in -ion
The Spanish wiktionary list has no words ending in -ión that begin with b,j,k, q, s, t, u w, x, y, or z.

There exist, among others:

bifurcación justificación satisfacción tracción urbanización

Does anybody know -ion words that begin with k,q,w,x,y, or z?

Pleast tell me where to post this message if it is not correct here.

muthuri33

Don't know how to input a Chinese word with a pronunciation variant in Taiwan
Hi. I'm trying to change the pronunciation of the Chinese word "枯萎". It was originally labeled with the pronunciation ku1wei3, but that's the Beijing standard. The Taiwan standard is ku1wei1, but I don't know how to do it. I look at the edit column of words like "星期", another word that's pronounced differently in Beijing and Taiwan, and what they did is they just placed the character where the pronunciation's supposed to be, which I don't understand. Can someone please explain? Thanks
 * I don't know anything about the method used in 星期, but adding a comma followed by the second pinyin value seems to work fine. If you aren't sure something will work, you should use "preview" to make sure it's right before you save it- a module error is far worse than missing information. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:26, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

 * Chuck Entz, I tried that but what it looked like was show the two pinyin pronunciations together. What I wanted to show, if you looked at the pronunciation section of 星期, the two pronunciations are separated from each other, one labeled Beijing and the other one labeled Taiwan. Maybe you have some idea of how to do that? Thanks. Oh yeah just wondering, when you typed your response, did you type the logged time and date or it was generated by Wiktionary? Because my response doesn't seem to show the date and time

 * Fixed. Wyang (talk) 00:47, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

How to use without generating a link
I am trying to add some alternative forms of Persian words with a tashdid/shadda. I am using the template, but in fact I don't want to link to the form with a tashdid because it should not have an entry according to current practice. For example, I would like to add as an alternative form of, but without a link. Can I stop the template from making a link? Is there a better template to use, or perhaps I don't need any template at all? Thanks for any help. Kaixinguo (talk) 12:37, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * You can put the term in the next parameter: rather than  (or  rather than ). —CodeCat 12:43, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the help; it worked.Kaixinguo (talk) 12:50, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Latin Noun declensions
Why does Wiktionary list Latin noun forms in such a peculiar order, it's most confusing when trying to look something up. Every Latin grammar I've ever seen, and always when learning Latin at school, lists Noun inflections in the order Nominative, Vocative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Ablative. Why be different? Is it a deliberate ploy to confuse?
 * I would prefer the cases to be in that order as well. Listing accusative and vocative where they are now makes no sense to me. —CodeCat 14:46, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Precedent is often set by the most adventurous rather than the most knowledgeable. The first step in responding to your guidance would be to calculate the number of entries that might require correction (to balance scale, value, & priority). Next, choose a technology/process to implement the change. Next, decide whether it is worth the effort to the decider or implementer. If so, develop/gather the needed resources. Publish the requirement/policy. Do it.--173.79.123.2 22:35, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

I couldn’t agree more. The order of declensions hurts me every day. I wish there were a way to customise it per-user, rather than to try to impose a universal new ordering on people. Someone out there must, for some reason, have liked the current bizarre case order, so I say let users have their own choice. I forget whether other languages suffer from this same malady too, beyond Latin. I note that the date of the earlier posts is 2014. I write this in 2022 now and nothing has happened ? Is there a way that I could recruit some helpers to implement a per-user preference thing? I think that it would need to be done in Javascript, which is not one of my languages. But something to pick up the relevant structures and reorder the DOM according to a per-user setting "Nom|Voc|Acc|Gen|Dat|Abl|Loc". It should be possible to make the JS general enough to handle other languages and maybe even non-IE languages such as Uralic, as the above case-ordering vector - or a better string representation - could be made into a very general mapping. Any offers of help much appreciated CecilWard (talk) 16:29, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Conjugations wrong for хлебать
Hello, The conjugation table for хлебать has been replaced with the one for делать, for some reason.
 * Thanks, think it is fixed now. Wyang (talk) 11:05, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you, both! It was a copy/paste problem. (I have changed the past tense passive participle to хлёбанный, this is often unpredictable or missing in various verb types). --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 00:30, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

title: Wiktionary:Information desk/2014/August


text:
Wiktionary:Information desk/2014/September

Limits to etymology
Is there a limit to how much etymology one should employ in an entry? --Æ&Œ (talk) 03:54, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

 * There doesn't seem, for example, much point in giving the entire history of tea and pot under teapot, when an interested reader just needs to understand that it's a compound, and can visit the component parts for more. Equinox ◑ 06:43, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Is vowel length phonemic in Icelandic?
I've been organising the rhymes and I noticed that short and long vowels seem to be in complementary distribution. Short vowels appear when two or more consonants follow, long vowels otherwise. Is vowel length allophonic or phonemic in Icelandic? If it's allophonic, then we should probably remove the length marks from vowels, at least in rhymes pages. —CodeCat 14:45, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * It's allophonic, but the rules are complicated. Long vowels occur before certain consonant clusters (basically, the ones that can form a syllable onset) and short before others (those that can't or don't form an onset). —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 09:48, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Scientific name of The Regent Honeyeater, Xanthomyza phrygia or Anthochaera Phrygia?
On the wikipedia page for The Regent Honeyeater it states that the scientific name for the bird is Anthochaera phrygia. On the Wikipedia page for the genus Anthochaera it does not include the Regent Honeyeater, though it does mention it. I have searched for papers showing that Xanthomyza Phrygia is no longer a part of Xanthomyza, and there are none which I can discover using my university's journal databases (University of New England, NSW Australia) and Google scholar. One paper, 'Phylogeny and evolution of the Australo-Papuan honeyeaters (Passeriformes, Meliphagidae), by Amy C. Driskell, and Les Christidis' suggest they are "nestled within the genus Anthochaera", which they proved through DNA sequensing, though most papers still name the bird Xanthomyza, suggesting that the bird has kept it's name despite the study undertaken by Driskell and Chrisidis. The Australian Government page states that the scientific name is Xanthomyza (http://www.environment.gov.au/resource/regent-honeyeater-xanthomyza-phrygia, and this page has been updated after the 2003 study. The action plan for Australian birds 2010 (Garnett, S., Szabo, J., & Dutson, G. (2011). The action plan for Australian birds 2010 (1st ed.). Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Pub) also names the bird as Xanthomyza Phrygia, rather than Anthochaera Phrygia. Some experts, such as D. J. Geering (http://www.absa.asn.au/Corella/CVol34/C34353.pdf), have started to call the bird Anthochaera. I am not sure if it has officially been changed by whomever has the authority to change it, and that is the reason for me writing this post.
 * Maybe you should ask this at Wikipedia- this is Wiktionary. Chuck Entz (talk) 08:37, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Audio pronunciations
I've recently started contributing Australian English audio pronunciations. For words without significant pronunciation differences between US/UK/AU, am I ok to contribute audio pronunciations? Should I mark these as AU? Or should I stick to words with a particular AU pronunciation? Screw0dog (talk) 06:00, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd say you can add whatever words you like, but they should always be marked as AU, even in cases where there's no significant pronunciation difference between the various dialects. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 13:02, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

search for polish words
I want to read the English Wiktionary, but only get Polish words. How can I search for only the Polish words in the English version of Wiktionary?
 * Special:Search/incategory:"Polish lemmas" granica? — Keφr 05:37, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

phonemic and phonetic, slashes and brackets
I found a conversation from 2008, but I didn't see anything resolved. I just now put in a proposal to change the editing guide to say phonemic instead of phonetic for pronunciation in slashes. The IPA article on wikipedia says slashes are for phonemic pronunciation. I think we need both. In polish the ó is not pronounced the same in komórka and komórkowa, and I need to know that. Particularly when there is a audio clip there should be a phonetic transcription of that in addition to whatever "official" or phonemic pronunciation we want to put on. Gbleem (talk) 21:15, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

block me
I guess that maybe it’s just because I’ve been taking my antidepressants inconsistently again, but I’m getting the feeling that I’m unwanted here (at least by one person). Most of the work that I do here is crap; I’m parasitic. People think that I’m a troll. I also can’t undo any mistakes from my past, so I have to be reminded of them over and over again. Block me. I don’t care how long. —Æ&Œ (talk) 13:14, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

You could at least reply with a snarky one‐liner. --Æ&Œ (talk) 22:37, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

 * Done. SemperBlotto (talk) 15:33, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

desktop link
Hi I am a newbie to this site and I know it should be easy to do, but I can't work out how I can create a shortcut on my desktop to this site?! Please help!

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page
 * Hello. Please remember to sign what you write by ending with four tildes. In regards to creating a shortcut to the English Wiktionary on your desktop, it all depends on what operating system you are using. Because you haven't clarified which one you are using, I will just assume that you are using Microsoft Windows 7. If that is the case, then simply navigate to your desktop, right click onto a blank spot within it, go to "New" from the dropdown menu, and click on the "Shortcut" option. After you do this, a new window should pop up with the header "Create Shortcut". Copy and paste this URL into the editable field within that window:
 * After doing so, click "Next". Then put "Wiktionary" into the next editable field that you see, and then click "Finish". Tharthan (talk) 19:33, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
 * After doing so, click "Next". Then put "Wiktionary" into the next editable field that you see, and then click "Finish". Tharthan (talk) 19:33, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

Finding a word using your "Search" engine if you don't know the correct spelling
I was typing a response to a book reviewer's comments at Amazon.com, and the site's spell-checking program underlined the word with a wavy red line - thus indicating that I had spelled it incorrectly. I tried all the various permutations of the word's spelling that came to mind, but none of them were adjudged to be correct by the aforementioned spell-checking program.

Frustrated, I then came to Wiktionary to alleviate that emotion by learning the elusive, correct spelling of the word. That was when I determined that Wiktionary presented the same problem as the Amazon.com spell-checking program: if one doesn't know the correct spelling of a word, one cannot obtain its correct spelling. Instead, each time I entered a permutation of the word I was informed that no such "page," or "article," exists on the Wiktionary site, and that "if you would like to add such a page or article..."

At that point I gave up, arose from my chair, went downstairs to my library, found my twenty-pound, unabridged dictionary, and looked up the word in the old-fashioned manner. I thought that there had to be a better or more efficacious way of dealing with this - surely, oft recurring - problem. First on the list of solutions was for Wiktionary to do the same thing that most other online dictionaries (both free and paid subscription) incorporate. It's the same program that Amazon.com, IMDb.com, Youtube.com and many other websites use: an algorithm that, after each letter you type, makes "informed" guesses about what product, topic, subject, film title, song, band etc. being sought, then displays its guesses. (I won't give an example - I'm sure you know what I am describing.) Then, the thought hit me: how about creating a section on the  Wiktionary site that is devoted entirely to housing a standard (physical) print dictionary for the many instances that this problem - not knowing the spelling of a word - occurs. Sure, it would be slower to "flip" through the "pages" of the online dictionary than it would be to type the word in the Search field/box...but that is true ONLY IF you KNOW the correct spelling of the word being sought. On the flip-side, however, it WOULD definitely be quicker than going downstairs and looking for it in the exact same fashion as would be utilized when consulting a print dictionary - flipping through the pages. I can see two things that would happen if you ultimately decided to make this suggestion a reality: 1) you will be (I'm fairly certain) the only website that has a standard "book"-form version of a dictionary on the internet and, 2) you will make your visitors/contributors (such as myself) very happy about not having to make repeated excursions away from their computers to pull out the dusty, old-fashioned physical repository of words. (just a thought...) Anyway, that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it. :-)

Finally, if you have time, let me know what you think. And, if you determine the implementation of this idea is too monumental, exhaustive or tedious an endeavor for the resources at your disposal (i.e. too large of an investment for too little potential return), please let me know that, as well. (Have no fear. Even if you don't/can't make my suggestion a reality, I'll still love the site, and all the great people who contribute to it's continued existence.  All of you whom do so have my gratitude and admiration for your efforts in this noble endeavor.)

Regards,

Michael Glover

p.s. The word that caused all the problems - lackadaisical. I kept trying to put an "S" after the hard "C"/"K" in the first syllable (i.e. "lacksadaisical," "lacksidaisical," "lacsadaisical," "lacsidaisical," "lacksidasical," "lacsidasical" etc., etc. ad infinitum, ad nauseum. p.p.s. I encountered the same problem with another word while in the process of typing this story - algorithm. I tried "algorythim," "algorithym," "algorithim," "algorythym" etc. and, in the end, made yet another trip to the library, downstairs.

 * It would be good if we could improve our search function to suggest possible words in such cases. It does do that sometimes, but not often enough. Until we manage to strengthen our search function, I would suggest trying Google. When I typed in lacksadaisical the first thing it said was "Did you mean lackadaisical?" and when I typed in algorythim the first thing it said was "Showing results for algorithm", so in both cases Google was good at figuring out what you were trying to say. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 11:25, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * P.S. If you go to Category:English lemmas you'll find a list of all English headwords here; it's a bit like seeing just the headwords in a paper dictionary. So that might help too, rather than trudging downstairs for your paper dictionary. Now, it is true that if you scroll through that category 200 entries at a time, it might take you a long time to get to the section you're looking for, but if you type  into your browser's URL bar, you'll find all the headwords starting with "alg-", and   will get you all headwords starting with "lack-". I concede this is rather esoteric knowledge we can't expect new users to figure out intuitively. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 11:35, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

 * See Index:English/l - you would have found it in seconds. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:40, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Clarification re Sandbox
How often is my sandbox cleared? I am enrolled in LIB2002 Reference 1 at Algonquin College,Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I will be posting my assignment 1 today. The next assignment posted during the term but I need to have access to assignment 1 to complete assignment 2. please advise.

Emma3171
 * This is Wiktionary. Your sandbox is over at Wikipedia, at w:User:Emma3171/sandbox. It doesn't get cleared automatically. Anything you have written there will stay there until you clear it yourself. And even after it's been cleared, you can still find its previous contents in the page history. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 14:07, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

New Word
I propose a new word. a noun describing a female postal route mail carrier is "POSTMA'AM"

STEVEN MALONE AT

I'M A NEWBIE

 * We don’t accept words people have recently invented; the requirement for English words is that they have at least three independent uses spanning at least one year. See WT:CFI for more detail. — Ungoliant (falai) 01:17, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

A reason is an idea that works to explain reality and reasoning is discovering ideas that work to explain reality.
A reason is an idea that works to explain reality.For Example Gravity is a force of attraction created by a mass.This idea works in every situation where we find gravity.For Example the orbits of the planets,the tide,the seasons.Reasoning is discovering ideas that work by applying the Rules of Reason to ideas about reality.1.Reason is an idea that works to explain reality.2.An idea either works to explain reality or it doesn't work.3.An idea either works to explain reality or it doesn't work to explain reality.It can't be something in between. The only legitimate purpose of language is to explain reality.Reality is reasons and reasons are ideas that work in reality.Reasons that work in reality are reasons in language.This is the reasoned representative language of humanity.

 * Is there a reason your explanation is so devoid of reality? Language exists so people can communicate and express themselves. Explaining reality is only a small part of it. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:03, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

How to indicate syllable breaks with long consonants in IPA?
In most languages that have them, long consonants occur across syllable boundaries, meaning that they both end the preceding syllable and begin the next one. But in IPA, long consonants are indicated with a single symbol followed by a length sign. So it's not really obvious how to split that between two syllables. Does anyone know what the common practice is in IPA? —CodeCat 21:35, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't one just use /Vː./? Tharthan (talk) 23:13, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * But that isn't really correct. —CodeCat 23:14, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Huh. I dunno then. As such, I too would be interested in the answer to this question. Tharthan (talk) 23:55, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Long consonants are very often indicated by gemination in IPA, probably more often than with the long sign, so you can put the syllable break boundary between them, thus: /pet.to/. To be honest, though, I've never understood Wiktionary's obsession with showing syllable breaks; they're usually either completely predictable or (as in English) totally ambiguous. Showing a syllable break at an ambisyllabic consonant is easy when the consonant is also long, as in the /pet.to/ example above, but how do you show that the /p/ in happy is ambisyllabic while not being long? Neither /hæ.pi/ nor /hæp.i/ nor /hæp.pi/ is unambiguously correct. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 11:15, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
 * We can't avoid showing syllable breaks, because we still need to put the stress mark between syllables. —CodeCat 12:38, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
 * But then we only have to show the break before the stressed syllable, not the other ones. So /ˈhæpi/ would be unproblematic, though /ɛkˈspɛns ~ ɛksˈpɛns/ still wouldn't be. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 12:54, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
 * In the end, it still means that sometimes you have to put a stress marker "on top" of a long consonant. On or  this is a problem for example. —CodeCat 14:20, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but as long as you use /dd/ and /ss/ rather than /dː/ and /sː/ it isn't really a problem. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 15:06, 1 October 2014 (UTC)


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Block capitals
Whenever a form asks me to fill it out in block capitals... I always wonder what other sort of capitals there are. Anyone? Renard Migrant (talk) 12:52, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * If our definition of block capital is correct, then typed capitals wouldn't be block capitals. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 17:24, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I suppose it's to encourage clear, unambiguous lettering, as opposed to cursive capitals. Keith the Koala (talk) 11:04, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia:
 * Block letters (known as printscript, manuscript, print writing or ball and stick in academics) are a sans-serif (or "gothic") style of writing Latin script in which the letters are individual glyphs, with no joining. ...
 * On official forms, one is often asked to "please print". This is because cursive handwriting is harder to read, and the glyphs are joined so they do not fit neatly into separate boxes.
 * --Thnidu (talk) 23:55, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Created entries
How can I find a list of new entries that a particular user has created? Zeggazo (talk) 22:26, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Go to Special:Contributions, enter their user name, and check the "Only show edits that are page creations" box. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 07:13, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Looking for a word.
The word would mean something along the lines of "someone who is sexually/emotionally attracted to shy or socially awkward people." I'm also looking for a word that means something like "a female who has a mother-like role in a relationship". Rædi Stædi Yæti {- skriv til mig -} 15:17, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I am not even sure such a word exists, but even if you find it, you will be probably better off not using it, as I think it would be likely to be very obscure or slang. (Unless I am missing some obvious one.) Eschew obfuscation and all that. — Keφr 06:07, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Czechia
Neutral, geographical (short-form) name - which is aplicable in general meaning- cannot be translated by transient political name with limited use Czechia is a correct common geographical name. It is commonly used in academic and scholar circles and in media. It is not still widespread, but the using of the word has been increased and the name was registered in 1993 in the UN list of countries. The short form name of the Czech state should be used, because it is politically neutral, capable to denominate the country in timeless (historical) meaning. The use in common language is not important in that direction. More, to ask for deletion of its equivalents in multiple languages, where that form is COMMONLY used contradicts demonstrably the truth. Above all, to ask for the deletion of universally applicable correct name is shortsighted, because using only politcal name limits Czech state only to the period from 1993 until now, which is clumsy and confusing, becuase history of Czechia is more than 1100 years old. Such a request can be done only by somebody, who is not able to realize or understand real importance of short form (geographical, informal) name of the country in general context. So, the request is nonsensical and totally unpractical, complicating clear description of the Czech state with absurd necessity to dividing and separating periods in Wikipedia articles, as is proved e.g. by Music of Czech lands / Music o the Czech Republic (and many others), however it is music of one country. This "Czech" issue is only one among all traditional countries in Europe, without comprehension of necessity to denominate the country by the name, which is able to be applicated in general, thus, to simplify and generalize the use, which is helpful and comprehensible for everybody, who is not (for obvious reasons) informed about political and formal changes in the country (similarly to many other European countries). The Czech state cannot be described as "the Czech Republic" not only because it is INCORRECT in itself, but also because resulting in generating of errors, from which can be chosen one of the most absurd here (taken from English Wikipedia): http://s1203.photobucket.com/user/JanBlanicky/media/Bo1590ivoj.jpg.html ("Bořivoj I, Duke of Bohemia, born in the Czech Republic" !!! ) and many other similar nonsenses.

The request of mr.Polansky is not only in the direction against the orientation of recipient and writer of articles in Czech section of Wikipedia, but also against the recommendation of the Ministry of Foreign affairs of the Czech Republic from 1998 (http://s1203.photobucket.com/user/JanBlanicky/media/MZV1998.jpg.html). Links (detailed explanations info): 1) http://www.czech-this.net/articles.php?req=read&article_id=111 2) http://czechia-initiative.com/czechia_name.html 3) https://www.facebook.com/CzechiaCZ

Blanicky
 * This is Wiktionary, not Wikipedia. This is not the place to discuss suggested page moves at Wikipedia. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 17:09, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

do
Mmm! I'm going to a do - that is - an event. I need to write the plural in a text message. What is the plural? Is it dos, doos, do's or what? And this meaning of do seems to be missing. Bob Brown
 * It's dos, and this meaning is the first meaning listed under do. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 20:41, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Regarding 2014 Wiktionary Word Archive
To whom it may concern,

I am a regular visitor to the Wiktionary. However as many of you might have observed by now, the word-of-the-day archive has not been populated since January 2014.

The editors are requested to look into the matter and do the needful.

Unprotect
Hi. Could someone please be so good as to unprotect (semi-protect, whatever) Template:es-conj-er? There's a bit of work to do on it to bring it in line with other similar templates, you see. Thanks. --Type56op9 (talk) 09:01, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Unprotected. (Why was it even protected in the first place? It does not even have a hundred transclusions.) — Keφr 09:10, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Lovely. And Template:es-conj-ir too, ta. --Type56op9 (talk) 10:22, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Lowered to semi (170 transclusions). — Keφr 10:40, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Need help with adding the plural to a noun
I want to add a plural form to the Wauja noun amunaun. So I imagine it would look like this: amunaun (plural amunaunaun). I tried copying the format used by the English site for one of its noun plurals (goose/geese). This is what I tried: It didn't work. Apparently I need a template? Would be grateful for some advice. Thanks. 22:35, 25 October 2014 (UTC). The page I am trying to add the plural to is here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amunaun Emi-Ireland (talk) 22:36, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * won't work until there's actually something at Template:wau-noun (curly brackets are for templates). Using the template, the unnamed parameters (named ones such as g= or tr= don't count) after the language code and the part of speech category are for inflected forms, with the odd-numbered parameter for the name of the form, and the even-numbered for the form itself. You'll see that I put "plural" in the 3rd parameter position and  in the 4th. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:54, 25 October 2014 (UTC) thank you! Emi-Ireland (talk) 00:04, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

what are the pros and cons of editorial anonymity
I don't understand what editorial anonymity means to find the pro and cons.

can some one explain it to me to I understand
 * ? — Keφr 08:32, 28 October 2014 (UTC)


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Could someone please capitalize the title on the "subjunctive" page?
Could someone please capitalize the title on the "subjunctive" page? I don't know how, but it bothers me makes Wikipedia look bad and un-professional.
 * This is Wiktionary, not Wikipedia. Because this is a dictionary, the difference between capital letters and lower-case letters is very important, so polish and Polish are two different pages, and subjunctive has a lower-case letter because it isn't normally capitalized. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 23:23, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, for some reason, the Latin Wiktionary decides to keep its pages capitalized when they are not normally capitalized and decides to put things like (en) at the end of their article titles to clarify the language. God, that pisses the hell out of me. No offense to Latin Wiktionarians, but I just hate that idea. The reason I don't like that is because if we do that, then it's harder to put those pages into interwiki links. It's a nightmare for me to look at a page like that with no interwiki links when it really needs them. Rædi Stædi Yæti  {- skriv til mig -} 01:36, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

skank
I have a question about a word. I specifically would like to know the history of this word. I am doing an essay on this word as a punishment. here is the word - SKANK. I know it's a derogatory word but I need to know some history, or a place to start my search on it's history.

 * The word is actually two separate words in itself. Its first use, meaning "a foul substance" is a blend of skeevy ("disgusting") and rank ("stark and foul"). Its second use, meaning "a bawdy woman", is a blend of scold ("a rude woman") and brank ("to prance about").

I know that we're not supposed to help people with homework questions, but my life goal is to spread knowledge, so I thought, why not? At least this person could learn something about this, and that's probably what the person who assigned this was hoping for. Tharthan (talk) 16:59, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

How do French Judaists spell Dieu?
--Romanophile (talk) 09:08, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
 * According to G-d, it's, which is confirmed by and , while  indicates an alternative form . —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 22:04, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Red link at Category:Ancient Greek language
Hello, I'm not an expert here, so I was wondering why there is a red link inside the box at Category:Ancient Greek language. The ancient Greek Wiktionary was deleted or it never started? (I am sorry, I have not learnt how to properly put wikilinks inside a text yet) Nikolas (talk) 22:24, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure there's never been an Ancient Greek Wiktionary, and I'm pretty sure there will never be one. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 23:48, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
 * How can you be sure that there will never be one? Are you a psychic? :D Nikolas (talk) 00:37, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The rules have been tightened up considerably regarding Wikimedia wikis in dead languages since the Latin and the Old English wiktionaries were started, and they're unlikely ever to be relaxed again enough to allow creation of a new one such as this. The main problem is that there are no terms in such a language for modern places, institutions, concepts, etc., which means that new ones have to be created- and those would be really terms in a conlang based on the original language, not in the language itself. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:25, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually, the main problem—indeed the main reason why no more Wikimedia projects in extinct languages will be approved—is that there are no native speakers to form the basis of the community of editors. It is now a requirement that a language have native speakers in order for it to have its own Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc. Exceptions are sometimes given for Wikisource and Wikiquote, since those projects present previously published information rather than original writing. However, even then, extinct languages are often incorporated into the Wikisources and Wikiquotes of their modern descendants, so Old English source material is hosted at English Wikisource and Ancient Greek source material is hosted at Greek Wikisource, and so on. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 11:12, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * What about A Greek-English Lexicon (this version), it could be expanded, the past editions of the Liddell-Scott are in the public domain nowadays. .Nikolas (talk) 22:25, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Of course we can have as many Ancient Greek words here at English Wiktionary as we want. But there isn't going to be a Wiktionary with definitions written in Ancient Greek and with Ancient Greek as the interface language. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 22:45, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Sure, I agree with that, thumbs up, but can someone please rework the infobox that is the main concern of my 1st message? I have no idea, and no time at the moment, on how to do that, but if you write down some relevant shortcuts, I could quickly learn and edit it . :)Nikolas (talk) 07:47, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

correcting entry and adding quotation to page randon
First time wanting to edit a page here, and I've come up with a complex task that is way beyond me at the moment, so I'm wondering if someone would like to adopt it.

On the page randon there is currently a quotation from Spenser that is misplaced in the Noun section. It needs to be removed (a pity) or moved to the Adjective section, which needs then to be created.

I have a quotation that does belong in the noun section. It is from Halley, and I suspect (but don't know) that in the short (again, I suspect ...) period between the beginning of scientific ballistics and this word becoming obsolete (likewise, I think, the word 'random' used in this sense) it is therefore an important and valuable quotation.

"half the Parameter is the greatest Randon, and that that happens at the Elevation of 45 Degrees"

A Discourse concerning Gravity, and its Properties, wherein the Descent of Heavy Bodies, and the Motion of Projects is briefly, but fully handled: Together with the Solution of a Problem of great Use in Gunnery. By E. Halley.

Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. I, 2nd Edition, 1708 p.316

(An ebook version is in preparation for Project Gutenberg.) --Alkhowarizmi (talk) 03:57, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Ovalized/Oblonged
I realize these words are not in the dictionary. So what best describes the act of ovalizing, say "ovalizing" a hole during manufacturing, or oblonging, "oblonging" a round object by placing it in a press. I know once the object has been deformed, per se, it is oblong. Please advise. Thanks!

Using Template:suffix without categorization?
It used to be that one could use with lang=- to keep it from adding a category in cases where the suffixation occurred in a language other than that of the entry. Is there any way to do this now, and if not, why not?

I'm asking this because I'm not quite sure how to get rid of bogus categories such as Category:Middle English words suffixed with -k, which contains only the English term crash- but no Middle English terms at all.

The template can be useful for formatting in etymologies, which makes replacing it in cases like this a bit of a pain. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:04, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Use .   doesn't work because if it did, then the template could no longer format the text and the link correctly. Even if it's not supposed to add a category, it should still know the language. —CodeCat 02:16, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I've added this to the documentation for, and , so I won't be asking this again in six months. Feel free to improve on my efforts- they're just a first draft. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:20, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Unexpected Initial Accent in Southern (US) Nouns
This is a phenomenon I've always found curious, but I hadn't really considered just how unusual it was until I saw the reaction of someone who wasn't aware of it at all.

It consists of certain words that are accented on the second syllable elsewhere, but instead are accented on the first syllable in Southern English. It's not just that the first syllable is accented, though. The second syllable retains a strong secondary accent, to the point that it sounds like the first syllable is a separate word, and the second syllable retains its full, unreduced pronunciation. The first syllable is also lengthened quite a bit, but I'm not sure if that's separate from the strong stress.

The examples that will no doubt be most familiar are guitar (/ˈɡɪːˌtɑɹ/) and police (/ˈpoːʊˌliːs/), but Southern English also lists behind (/ˈbiːˌhaɪnd/),cement (/siːˌmɛnt/), Detroit(/ˈdiːˌtrɔɪt/), display (/ˈdɪːsˌpleɪ/), hotel (/ˈhoːʊˌtɛl/), insurance (/ˈɪːnˌʃəɹɨns/), July (/ˈd͡ʒʊːˌlaɪ/), motel (/ˈmoːʊˌtɛl/), recycle (/ˈriːˌsaɪkəl/), TV (/ˈtiːˌviː/) and umbrella (/ˈʌːmˌbɹɛlə/). A couple more examples that come to mind are Arab (/ˈeːɪˌɹæb/) and Italian (/ˈaːɪˌtæljən/). I've also caught myself doing this with a word or two like default (/dɪˈfɑːɫt/), but I'm not Southern and I'm not sure where I picked it up.

I'm curious as to whether anyone has ever studied this, and whether anyone knows more about it, especially whether there's a pattern to which words have it and how far beyond the Deep South it extends. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:05, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

 * After moving from New York to St. Louis, I've noticed people here say insurance with initial stress (I'm used to penultimate) and likewise for some words that are both nouns and verbs, but used as nouns, though I can't htink at the moment which ones. I don't know whether that's an extension of the same accent in that respect. Does Southern display (which you list) have initial stress for the verb and noun, or which? —msh210℠ (talk) 19:45, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * It may be on the edge of the South, but Missouri is still a Southern state. I have no specific knowledge about the verb sense of display, but the general pattern is for the noun to have the initial accent, while the verb (if there is one) is the way it is everywhere else (recycle seems to be the exception). I'm wondering if it started out as a way to insure clarity in some strata of unfamiliar but frequently-used words. You'll note that behind is the only one in the list that goes back to Old English, and it was no doubt an uncommon word pressed into service as a euphemism. All of the above is just speculation, which is why I was hoping there was something about it in the literature. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:07, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

wherefore Lazarus, not Elazarus
Why did become  with no initial (glottal stop or) vowel? Does Ancient Greek not allow initial vowels or something? —msh210℠ (talk) 19:37, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * This would be better at the Etymology scriptorum. As to substance: The etymology at Lazarus is missing details. You'll find in the Hebrew scriptures as  / Eleazar, but the name in the New Testament which gave rise to the modern name is from, which is itself derived from . Chuck Entz (talk) 14:53, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks! —msh210℠ (talk) 06:04, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Replying
--Supersonic414-On Wikia 13:52, 18 November 2014 (UTC) Hello! I just want to ask how to reply to peoples post!

 * Click an [edit] link, put an appropriate number of s or  s under someone else's post, type your reply,   and submit. — Keφr 14:03, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

 * Thank you for the help. --Supersonic414-On Wikia 14:06, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * You forgot the . — Keφr 14:07, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Pop-Culture Words?
Hello all, I wanted to ask, should pop-culture terms be here? This is a dictionary for pretty much everything, but really, should media terms be here? It's not that I have anything against them, but it would help if there was, say, a specific portal that led to any, if not all, terms caused by the internet, IM slang, pop culture references, etc. Of course, if this is already handled,then disregard this message.

Thanks Muaadth on fire (talk) 17:34, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

 * Internet slang is in plenty of mainstream dictionaries (though not to the same extent — yet!). Being Internet-based and freely editable, we tend to get more of it, and earlier. You can search by "Internet slang" category at the bottom of these entries, to narrow it down. Equinox ◑ 21:08, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Phrase "stand pat" question
I always have know about the general usage of this phrase as a poker term, and as an expression of firm resolve. I don't have the resources to look deeper into the origin of the second word, but wondered if it could be derived from "patent" as in "letters patent", suggesting a proven right to occupy a place or position. Betsinoregon (talk) 20:59, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

 * I imagine it's the adverb pat. Equinox ◑ 21:09, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Request for deletion
I couldn't get templates and  to work properly, though the code worked alright when I shortened their names. Would someone please delete these two templates or tell me how to do it. — ReidAA (talk) 11:23, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I've deleted them both since you have gotten and  to work. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 15:48, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much. — ReidAA (talk) 22:07, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Asexual Definitions Ordered Incorrectly?
Why is the new colloquial definition (post 2000), which is not only a misnomer but also misuse of the term (nonsexual is a word that already meant that, and far less confusingly), listed as first and second? Especially when there is a concrete scientific definition for the term. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/asexual --Mr.BloopBloop (talk) 20:23, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Sense 1 is not post-2000; here is an example from a book published in 1979. Also, doesn't mean "not experiencing sexual attraction", and since "not experiencing sexual attraction" is probably currently the most common meaning of  outside of biology, using it this way is neither exclusively colloquial, nor a misnomer, nor a misuse of the term. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 20:35, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

In regards to my original question, I'm still wondering why it was ordered the way it was. I don't know the policy, and in my mind it seems logical to keep the most solid, longest currently used, concrete definitions at the top. In reference to the reply, the wiktionary page only gives post 2000 quotes, and the link you sent was in German. Not sure if that translates, or how that would work since this is not the German version. So I'm a little confused by that admittedly. Asexual is a common term in biology and as such I suspect it is used far more often, though in different circles. Though we are ultimately both speculating on that point. No way to tell, but it's still absolutely the current term for that meaning in biology. At the very least it has been written in more professional contexts, over a much longer period. Furthermore, as defined elsewhere, e.g wikipedia, the definition is actually more fluid. IE some asexuals can experience sexual attraction, which is why it frustrates me. A definition is put forward, and then it's basically picked apart until it doesn't mean anything remotely like the original definition. The only consistent element is some level of disinterest, ie the definition of nonsexual. Everything else is conditional. Finally it's semantic to say nonsexual doesn't mean that, and then assert asexual does when it was just an arbitrary decision someone made. The first person to do so did it in error, or colloquially by definition. That and it's only time and repetition that renders a word not colloquial; and since it's in direct conflict with the original meaning, the construction of the word (etymology), and it's concrete scientific definition (which can't be said of nonsexual), I'd say it is misuse (rampant as it is). In the context for the original meaning all humans are by definition sexual, it's a characteristic of our species, not an aspect of an individuals identity or sexual orientation which varies by birth. Though none of this really matters since deliberate misuse is how language works, and evolves, but that is essentially what has been done.--Mr.BloopBloop (talk) 21:25, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The citation I gave wasn't in German, though I did link it through books.google.de. Try this link: . We don't have a policy on how to order senses; some people are in favor of putting the oldest sense first (even if it's now obsolete), other people are in favor of putting the oldest non-obsolete sense first, other people are in favor of putting the currently most commonly used sense first, other people just add senses at the bottom as they think of them. The reason I said that nonsexual doesn't mean "not experiencing sexual attraction" is simply that as far as I knew, the word isn't used that way; however, I have now found this book that does use nonsexual with that meaning, so I take it back. But nonsexual is still much less common in this sense than asexual is. Saying that things are an "error" or "misuse" makes sense only within a prescriptive context (and we aren't a prescriptive dictionary) or with regard to actual real-world usage (and since asexual is very widely used to mean "not experiencing sexual attraction", it isn't an error or a misuse to use it that way). It isn't "an arbitrary decision someone made", it's the way the language evolved. You might as well call it "an arbitrary decision someone made" that  now means "foolish" instead of "blessed" as it originally did. No one consciously made that decision, the language just evolved that way. It's true that our definition could use some tweaking, as you point out, since asexuality doesn't necessary entail a complete lack of any sexual attraction, but can also include a simple lack of interest in sex. I really don't see that the biological and sociological meanings are in any direct conflict, though; amoebas and bacteria are just as uninterested in sex as any person who identifies as asexual. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:45, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

 * I would also prefer to see the biology sense placed first. Equinox ◑ 13:28, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I have no objection to that. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:51, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

AquaStretch References
I'm trying to provide references for the new word AquaStretch using the following links and the editor won't let me save them.

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 * Is this word actually used by English speakers? Is it a brand name? If the answer to the first is no, or the answer to the second is yes, then it can't be included on Wiktionary. —CodeCat 23:28, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict) First of all, this is a descriptive dictionary based on usage, and our Criteria for inclusion don't count non-durably-archived websites as evidence of usage. Besides, this is trademarked, and identified as such in your references, so it doesn't meet WT:BRAND. The only way we would include it is if people were using it in ways that didn't match the trademarked meaning. This would require evidence of independent usage in at least three durably-archived sources, of which Google Books has exactly one. If you're connected with the trademark-owner, bear in mind that the kind of usage to make it a valid Wiktionary entry is exactly the sort that could endanger the trademark (see Generic trademark. I'm not a lawyer, so you can take that with a grain of salt). Chuck Entz (talk) 00:06, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

 * You're a spammer; get the hell out; did you only post those links here in a fake "question" so that your links would be on a page? Equinox ◑ 03:14, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think search-engine spam was their goal, and I think they really thought it was some technical glitch that kept them from posting the links, but I've now removed the URLs just to avoid giving them an undeserved boost. I deleted the entry (after they posted here), but it wasn't especially promotional in tone without the URLs. I would put them somewhere in the wide gray area between spamming scum and ethically-clueless self-promoter. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:03, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Request for deletion
Hi, could you delete the entry of "αντέξα" ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AD%CE%BE%CE%B1 ) as this form does not exist. Instead "άντεξα" (note the accent mark) is the correct "First-person singular, simple past form of αντέχω". (I already added the entry for "άντεξα".)

178.25.191.74 21:21, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
 * You can request speedy deletion by putting on a page with your reason. In this case, ✅. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:38, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

RQ: Melville Moby-Dick Template
This template is now frozen. However it needs to be able to be used without a parameter so that it can be used on a quotation that hasn't yet been narrowed down to a chapter, as is the case with most of the existing Moby-Dick quotations. Furthermore, M-B has very many chapters and this deters people who use Wikisource from trying to narrow down a quotation's chapter. The code is very simple, as will be seen for example in Template:RQ:Bronte_Wuthering. Could this be fixed, please. — ReidAA (talk) 09:17, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I notice that Moby-Dick is entered into Category:Quotation_reference_templates but not into Wiktionary:Quotations/Templates. Should I go ahead and put it in there? Incidentally, I notice that there doesn't seem to be any way to put a new template into Category:Quotation_reference_templates. Am I blind to an Edit button somewhere there? — ReidAA (talk) 09:59, 1 December 2014 (UTC)