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Wiktionary:Tea room/2012/December

= December 2012 =

latest
The adverb section of latest currently has the usex: Complete the xyz task latest by today 5:00PM

Is that even grammatical? - -sche (discuss) 21:41, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

 * It is certainly used. I interpret it as a clipping of at the latest. DCDuring TALK 22:41, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that it is simply the superlative of late.
 * Also, latest looks like another interpretation of fused-head constructions of adjectives as nouns. I don't see that any new sense is added. I wonder if the plural exists and which determiners can modify it. DCDuring TALK 22:49, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * A few OneLook idiom dictionaries (ie, lemmings) have at the latest. DCDuring TALK 22:54, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Is it used? I'm asking about the adverb, bare "latest" without "at the". I'm having trouble finding examples on Google Books; everything that turns up is "at the latest" or the result of the OCR mistakenly joining to columns, but it may be that my unfamiliarity with the usage means I don't know how to search for it. - -sche (discuss) 22:52, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The noun does exist in the plural. I believe that the usage examples do not instantiate noun usage, but rather fused-head usage of the adjective as nominal. DCDuring TALK 23:16, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not asking about the noun, nor about "at the latest". I'm asking (now on RFV) if "latest", by itself, is used adverbally in the way the usex uses it or in any other way. - -sche (discuss) 23:29, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * As I said above, I think latest is short for at the latest and have amended the entry to reflect that. I was trying to determine whether at the latest needs to be presented as an idiom. MWOnline does not, instead have a fairly specific sense of latest.
 * I really can't help it if an answer to your question has further related implications. DCDuring TALK 01:21, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

broad (Moby Dick)
Good day! Forging ahead fitfully through Melville's work, the following use of the "broad" heaved in sight: "It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. " Does it mean "open, uncovered, unprotected" here? --CopperKettle (talk) 09:22, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Another quote: "And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of; " -- does the "hushed" here equal "thatched" (judging by the sense)? Thank you in advance. --CopperKettle (talk) 13:06, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Hushed almost certainly means "silent" or "silenced".
 * I don't have certainty to offer for broad. It seems nautical, related to broadside, perhaps sideways to the wind? He is one of the first literary authors to write in American or USian. DCDuring TALK 16:35, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Hard to traverse through his prose unbarnacled with the boatspeak. (0: --CopperKettle (talk) 17:50, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

piehole
This is classified as vulgar. Is that true? The words compounded are hardly vulgar to begin with, are they? And I highly doubt that this term would be subject to censorships. --Æ&Œ (talk) 14:08, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Probably just rude. DAVilla 15:26, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Doesn't it need a pejorative label instead of vulgar? DCDuring TALK 16:15, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Perhaps offensive? DCDuring TALK 16:18, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Definitely not offensive but pejorative is fine. --WikiTiki89 19:07, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * To me, it's far closer to vulgarity than to pejorativity. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 23:31, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd definitely feel this to be offensive if it was mine being referred to. If one's body parts are referred to pejoratively, isn't that offensive? In contrast to a pejorative reference to one's partner, car, house, clothing, etc. DCDuring TALK 01:42, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Just slang to my ear. Mildly vulgar in the sense that it refers to a bodily function, though not one that is taboo. Any imputations of gluttony, etc., would be subject to context, though I imagine it fits better with an insult than a compliment. It may seem offensive for that latter reason. — Pingkudimmi 08:41, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It's no more vulgar or offensive than words like or . --WikiTiki89 10:13, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Compare with  and  with . For the stronger terms, it is hard to find an instance of usage that is not intended to be abusive of the reader or someone the reader supports or someone toward whom the reader has the same negative attitude as the writer. For the more neutral ones there is a range of usage. In the case of piehole we can be reasonably shore that the rhyme/echo of asshole is part of the charm of the expression. DCDuring TALK  22:14, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd sooner compare it to dumb than dumbass. Dumbass is clearly vulgar, while dumb is exactly what I think piehole is. --WikiTiki89 20:14, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * IMO it is vulgar because it's crude and somewhat "graphic" (image of mouth as a hole). Conversely, the word unintelligent is quite formal. Equinox ◑ 19:52, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

hullabaloo
The Latin translation given for hullabaloo is, which I highly doubt is accurate. Can anyone confirm or deny this? It also makes me wonder how many other entries out there have bogus Latin translations. --WikiTiki89 11:54, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Obviously bogus; I've removed it. I haven't come across other bogus Latin translations, but then again, I tend not to look for them. This, that and the other (talk) 10:23, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

graduate
Does anyone else find the usage notes here a bit strange? At the very least, I think it should be made clear that "I graduated college" is distinctly American in usage. The notes also claim that both “I graduated [from] Indiana University last year” and “Indiana University graduated me last year” are equally acceptable, without making it clear how bizarre the latter sentence sounds. Can we address these issues? ---> Tooironic (talk) 21:19, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * If indeed the "I graduated college" usage is American, then it can obviously be so marked. The transitive usage with the institution as the subject has its place: "The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules." DCDuring TALK 22:38, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * In NZ we can say both "I graduated university" and "I graduated high school" - the only reason "I graduated from college" sounds weird to my ears is because we don't use the word "college" in that way. "Indiana University graduated me" does sound odd, but "Indiana University graduated five hundred students last year" (Or more? Or less? I don't know whether Indiana University is large or small) sounds significantly less odd (again, to my ear). For what little all that is worth. I also like the irony in " some speakers consider... “I graduated college” as ... uneducated" Furius (talk) 06:01, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * More. Indiana University Bloomington currently has over 32,000 undergraduates and over 9,500 graduate students, so it probably graduates around 10,000 students a year. —Angr 08:36, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

never change a running system
The usage note says that "The phrase has also been picked up and used by German speakers." From, the phrase seems to be used more often by German speakers than by English speakers. When I see the phrase in English text there, it often turns out the author has a German sounding name. In any case, the number of German written works containing the phrase is conspicous. Could we capture this better than what the current usage note says? Should perhaps a dedidated German entry be created with the same title? Does this perhaps sound foreign or unusual to native English speakers?

For interest, here is a Google Ngram View for never change a running system,if it ain’t broke, in which "never change a running system" has so low a frequency that it is not found; Google uses the threshold of 40 hits or something of the sort to include an ngram in its database. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:31, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I've never even heard this. I usually hear if it ain't broke, don't fix it or don't mess with success. --WikiTiki89 20:35, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I considered sending this to RFV, but then this would probably be attested using non-native English durably archived quotations. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:39, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

 * I (an Ohioan) had never heard this, either. —Ruakh TALK 21:10, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * THat sounds more like something ("running system") you'd hear in computer than a general aphorism... Circeus (talk) 16:53, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I live in Germany and even I have never heard "never change a running system". There are other English expressions that seem to be used only by Germans, though, like no risk, no fun, for which actual English speakers say nothing ventured, nothing gained. —Angr 08:39, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

hola, olà, olá, & ola
I am fairly confident that these romance interjections were borrowed from French holà. English hello is said to be from holla, which is also from this Frenchism. Are there any objections? --Æ&Œ (talk) 12:26, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

see btw. the eyes
Good evening. I need a help with one quote, please. Here it is:
 * 1) *1880, Robert Louis Stevenson, Letters vol. I, chapter 4
 * Are you coming over again to see me some day soon? I keep returning, and now hand over fist, from the realms of Hades: I saw that gentleman between the eyes, and fear him less after each visit.

- is there some idiom in the "saw that gentleman between the eyes" part? If not, maybe he meant to write "eye to eye"? --CopperKettle (talk) 12:42, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not familiar with such an idiom. I think he meant what he wrote but you could interpret it as "eye to eye". What is interesting is that he perhaps intended to make a point about not making eye contact while confronting/staring down "that gentleman". I also find I need to interpret "hand over fist". Is that a metaphorical climb up a metaphorical rope from a metaphorical Hades?
 * Talk about the lost art of letter-writing! DCDuring TALK 13:09, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, the hand over fist is the reason why I've struck upon this letter - it's an evolution of hand over hand; if popular phraseology books are any guide, it had came to mean "rapidly (making money chiefly)" by the time Robert Louis was in his swaddling clothes, so he probably means (and hopes) that he is getting better fast. --CopperKettle (talk) 13:18, 5 December 2012 (UTC) Oh, and thanks for the answer! --CopperKettle (talk) 13:29, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * In the "making money" usage, one's hands are metaphorically moving horizontally, grabbing money first with one hand, then, while pulling one in the money, reaching for the next with the other hand. Hades being traditionally below, climbing seems appropriate. His word and phrase selection suggests to me the realm of conceptual metaphor more than the realm of lexical definition. DCDuring TALK 14:00, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not a natural speaker, so I guess you're right; I was thinking that the "and now" was a kind of shortening for "and now, at last" or "now, at this time (i.e. iteration, for he was in and out of disease for years, acc. to Wikipedia)" thus pointing more to the "rapid" meaning rather than the "hands-on" one. (0: --CopperKettle (talk) 16:52, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I wasn't sure that I was right. Rereading it for the fourth time, I'm even less sure. Anyway, we've covered enough of the bases. DCDuring TALK 17:41, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

 * I take it to be a vivid way of saying that he had seen him up close (cf. ), i.e., that he had come very near death. By the way, I take "and now hand over fist" to mean "and now more and more often"; in other words, I read him as saying that his periods of deathly illness have become more frequent. (N.B. I am not certain of either of these interpretations.) —Ruakh TALK 18:44, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Great! I didn't occur to me to read this as "and now more and more often" - this reading is corroborated by the "after each visit", pointing at repeatability. --CopperKettle (talk) 15:25, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

splatterdash
Wiktionary defines splatterdash as "uproar", based on the 1013 edition of Webster.

In The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this phrase appears: He wore... a pair of splatterdashes so large that he could have put both legs into either of them... (taken from the Gutenberg Project html version on page 76)

This excerpt suggests a very different usage of the word.

 * It is sense 2, = spatterdashes. Equinox ◑ 14:30, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

 * There seems to be some sort of mixup here between spatterdashes and splatterdashes, since splatterdash definition #2 points to a plural of spatterdashes (no l). --WikiTiki89 14:33, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

 * I think the 1013 edition of Webster's had but a single entry, to wit: anachronism:. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 01:03, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Clearly he meant 1913. --WikiTiki89 01:07, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

English phrases equivalent to the French phrase : "le tout sécuritaire"
Hi, everyone. Have you a phrase like this one. "le tout sécuritaire" (litteraly "the securitarian whole") its a French phrase which include (and often denounce) all the laws, measures, behaviours create in order "to protect us". Like video protection, CCTV, cops increasements in the city, etc. How to translate that in english, please ? V!v£ l@ Rosière  /Whisper…/  11:29, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

 * nanny state and surveillance society are the closest I can think of. Neither is exactly right for your phrase. Equinox ◑ 14:33, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, it's perfect. I looked for something like that, I'll remember nanny state for sure, cause it's a funny phrase. V!v£ l@ Rosière   /Whisper…/  21:48, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Bon soir! A notion of "tutelary state" comes to my mind. --CopperKettle (talk) 15:45, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

It is spelled either tout-sécuritaire ou tout sécuritaire. In any case, le is not a part of the term. Lmaltier (talk) 21:55, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * There's state apparatus and the apparatus of state.--KTo288 (talk) 18:01, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

arch
I thought this word was also sometimes used to mean clichéd, which isn't currently covered by the definitions in the Adjective section. Am I mistaken? - dcljr (talk) 19:29, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Appr
Is it appropriate for me to create these entries?: like bald is a hair color, like abstinence is a sex position? Pass a Method (talk) 21:59, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I encounter like bald is a hair colour very frequently. To be honest they look like live metaphors to me, and some users are against having entries for those so I dunno. — Ungoliant (Falai)

Hawaii
Two things: --WikiTiki89 00:45, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) The image is a very useless way of indicating where Hawaii is located.
 * 2) Has anyone ever heard the pronunciation /hə.ˈwɑː.jə/?
 * Wikicommons probably has something better at.
 * I've heard it, I think. I'd characterize it as dated. But I don't think we need to include every such pronunciation at all. OTOH our evidence standards for pronunciations are non-existent. DCDuring TALK 00:56, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * In this case, marking it as seems lke the best way to go. My pronunciation of Hawaiʻi ranges greatly based on who I'm talking to, from həˈwaɪ.ji to hɑwaˈiʔi (I find the actual Hawaiian pronunciation to feel a little unnatural to me, but that's mainly because I'm bad at glottal stops). In any case, I don't really think that either of those pronunciations are common or representative enough to merit presence on the page. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 01:10, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

conceited
The following two senses seem to be similar enough to be merged: Dictionaries from seem to agree; while some dictionaries do have more than one sense, the other senses are very distinct, such as Webster 1913's "3. Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. [Obs.]".
 * "vain and egotistic"
 * "having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc."

I would probably drop the first sense and leave the second one. What do you think? Is this for WT:RFM? Or for ? --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:33, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * They are redundant. The second definition is better. The terms in the other definition would look nice as synonyms.
 * BTW, "arrogant" is not a synonym. Arrogance is a behavior, conceit is a mental state. Conceit might be inferred from arrogant behavior, but arrogance could be feigned or a characteristic defense mechanism, etc. They often go together, but not necessarily. DCDuring TALK 16:36, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

deculmination
The Italian word deculminazione means "the reduction in height of mountains with the passage of time". The obvious English translation would be deculmination:, but this doesn't seem to exist. Any ideas? SemperBlotto (talk) 18:28, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * There wasn't anything I could find at w:Category:Geological processes. But the Italian word doesn't specify any particular process(es). English may have only reduced elevation. DCDuring TALK 19:05, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * There's subsidence, though that might imply the whole mountain becoming lower, not just the peak. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:10, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Or "elevation loss". —Stephen (Talk) 06:31, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

come off the boil
Good evening. Came across the "come off the boil" - is that an idiom fledged enough to be included? Actually first I've blundered upon the "..but as prices start to come off and as the rest of the world find alternative sources.." and, as no suitable meaning was listed in the come off, I've googled a bit and winkled out somehow the "off the boil" ending. --CopperKettle (talk) 15:36, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

 * It would not occur to me that "come off" there was short for "come off the boil", particularly. 81.159.107.156 20:35, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Maybe I'd been mistaken in that. --CopperKettle (talk) 23:54, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

COLAtards / colatards
This word was suggested for yesterdays Countdown competition, but we can't figure out a meaning.

Any ideas? SemperBlotto (talk) 08:30, 11 December 2012 (UTC) (on behalf of Metaknowledge)

 * It is a derogatory term (i.e. "retards") for participants in the comp.os.linux.advocacy (COLA) newsgroup. Equinox ◑ 09:46, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

COLAtard/colatard
I thought of this for the Christmas competition a couple days back and found that it seems to be citeable on Usenet, but I have no idea what it means (something to do with Lienux:, apparently). Does anyone know? —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:26, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Derogatory slang for somebody on the comp.os.linux.advocacy newsgroup. Equinox ◑ 21:38, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Had a felling you'd know. Mind creating it, and checking Lienux, too? (These are on the edge of inclusion, but I don't think we can disallow them.) —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:47, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

on water
As used here, is "on water" idiomatic? I think so, since it seems to be a technical term meaning "as an emulsion in" rather than "on, over, above, atop" as usual ("leaves floating on water"). - -sche (discuss) 22:59, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I think it is an ordinary meaning of "on", just at a different scale: a molecular one. I may be wrong but I think "on" is used for reactions that take place using a catalyst, eg "reaction rate on platinum/catalyst". DCDuring TALK 23:37, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

antivirus
Does it also mean "antiviral drug"? --Anatoli (обсудить/вклад) 23:06, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

 * No, I don’t think so. You may rarely hear "antivirus drug" (it doesn’t sound right to me), but an antiviral drug would not be called an antivirus. An antiviral drug can be called an antiviral, though. —Stephen (Talk) 06:26, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

my, your = pronouns ?
I don't see how these words can be considered as pronouns and not as possessive adjectives..., are pronouns, though. --Fsojic (talk) 01:34, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Yes, and  are possessive adjectives. They are not pronouns. —Stephen (Talk) 06:35, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

 * They can be referred to as "possessive pronouns" or "possessive adjectives". --WikiTiki89 07:57, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * But why call "pronoun" something that is not a pronoun? And it doesn't seem confusing to me alone: Talk:my, Talk:your... --Fsojic (talk) 10:18, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Because it is simply the possessive (or genitive) form of a pronoun. --WikiTiki89 10:39, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Etymologically (in Old English or Proto-Germanic), maybe, but not in modern English. Lmaltier (talk) 21:50, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * No they are still considered to be by many. Also, calling them adjectives is also wrong since they are not adjectives but determiners. Words like are still seen as more or less the equivalent of, and you probably wouldn't call  an adjective. --WikiTiki89 22:08, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * But determiners behave a lot like adjectives, too. I think that these sorts of function words are where the artificial nature of grammatical categories start to manifest - the grammatical terms are approximations of language, which the language itself is not necessarily aware of. Furius (talk) 22:28, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Compare the following examples: Jane's mother and her mother. Jane is a noun (more specifically, a proper noun, but that's irrelevant). Jane's is the possessive form of Jane and even though Jane's functions as a determiner, Jane is still a noun. She is a pronoun (standing for Jane). Her is the possessive form of she and even though her functions as a determiner and is a stand-in for the possessive form of Jane, a noun. There is a similar situation with gerunds: are they nouns or verbs? Grammatically, function as nouns, but semantically, they are still verbs. Participles are even more confusing, is eaten a verb or an adjective in The food was eaten yesterday.? You can look at it either way. In the end, "possessive pronoun" is just a name and they really are determiners, which is what our POS headers should say (in fact, until you pointed it out, I thought we did call them determiners). Basically the way I see it is a "possessive pronoun" is a type of determiner that is derived from a pronoun and what makes it a determiner is that it is "possessive", so "possessive adjective" or "possessive determiner" is redundant. --WikiTiki89 23:06, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * At OneLook, one can find my categorized as pronoun (RHU, CambDictAmerEng), adjective (MWO, WNW, AHD, Wordsmyth), and determiner (MacM, CompactOED, Collins, CambAdvLearners). **IOW, those dictionaries that use determiner as a word class apply it to my.**
 * Longmans DCE probably started the trend of including determiners as a word class and we have in the last couple of years decided to follow the trend, though doing so may confuse some of our users. DCDuring TALK 23:08, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Just to note: "my", "your", "our" were historically adjectives distinct from the genitive form of the pronoun, while "his", "her" and "their" are historically genitives. The former were declined to match the noun (as do French , , ), the latter were invariable. This distinction eventually fell apart as the English declension system disappeared, but in other languages (Dutch, German) the process happened the other way, adding declensional endings to the original genitives. 00:39, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Well I see no evidence on Wiktionary of the distinction surviving anywhere past Proto-Germanic (other than Gothic). Perhaps you can link me to some entries from later languages? --WikiTiki89 01:00, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * But it did survive in all the older languages. Gothic, Old English, Old High German and Old Norse all maintained the distinction, and modern Icelandic and Swedish still have it. 01:17, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you can link me to some entries? Especially, Old English. All I can find is, which is given as the genitive at and has no declension table, leading me to believe there was no distinction. --WikiTiki89 01:24, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * We don't seem to have any entries, but mīn really did decline as an adjective as there were declined forms like mīnes, mīne, mīnum etc. The same for, , /, , while , and // did not inflect. Swedish has  (common) and  (neuter),  (plural), while the third person possessive is uninflected . This is the Proto-Germanic situation preserved intact and in fact the Indo-European situation too, as the same situation is found also in Latin ( inflects, but  and  do not), Old Church Slavonic etc... They all have one piece in common: the first- and second-person possessives, in singular, dual and plural all decline, as does the reflexive possessive (Germanic , Latin ) while the third-person forms are genitives of the various third-person pronouns and do not inflect.  01:34, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Here is an example from the lord's prayer in Old English: and forgyf ūs ūre gyltas[accusative plural], swā swā wē forgyfað ūrum gyltendum[dative plural]. 01:41, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, fair enough. Another question: where did the "s" in "hers" come from then? --WikiTiki89 01:50, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

keep it simple, stupid
Good afternoon,

in this expression, is "stupid" an attribute of "it" as simple is, or is it addressed to the collocutor? --Fsojic (talk) 13:30, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Addressed to the collocutor. Equinox ◑ 14:20, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

mahalo
Can someone check the Hawaiian pronunciation? Based on Hawaiian alphabet, it seems there shouldn't be a diphthong at the end. --WikiTiki89 14:45, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

 * There isn’t. Fixed. —Stephen (Talk) 15:01, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Kerry Packered
I disagree that my entry Kerry Packered (= knackered) was deleted on the grounds of "Creative invention or protologism". It's been around for at least 10 or 15 years, there are several hundred Google hits, and it is no different from cream crackered or go Pete Tong or Ayrton Senna or probably numerous other entries. I request that it is reinstated. 81.159.107.156 20:30, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

 * I've restored it. It does seem to just barely meet our criteria for inclusion, having 2-4 Usenet hits for this capitalisation and several for the lowercase form. - -sche (discuss) 21:05, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

fachen
Hello there, I speak German as mother tongue.

There is a word in German called fachen (see Duden), but without prefix it has no meaning (there are the words called an- and entfachen).

How can I add that word to the entry fachen? regards --Bigbossfarin (talk) 00:12, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * If it hasn't been used at all in the history of modern German (everything later than Middle High German) and has no meaning by itself anymore, then I don't think there should be an entry at all. 00:28, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

kung fu
Does the word kung fu can be pronounced /ˌkʊŋ ˈfuː/ ? Fête (talk) 12:15, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Not in American English. American English is only /ˈkəŋ ˈfuː/. —Stephen (Talk) 12:54, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * @Stephen: No, Americans often say /kʌŋˈfuː/. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 22:33, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Isn't /ə/ just what some dictionaries (such as Webster's) use for /ʌ/? --WikiTiki89 23:01, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I personally hear a difference. Many systems, like Romic (a precursor to IPA), do not distinguish the two. However, the vowels in Asche: and lush: sound quite distinguishable to me. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 23:13, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Yes, optionally in British English (kung rhymes with German jung, and the OED puts this pronunciation first). Does our entry need regional tags?    D b f  i  r  s   22:28, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

caisse
Can you record the pronunciation of the word caisse with a Quebec accent please ? Fête (talk) 17:11, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

forest
Does the word forest can be pronounced /ˈfɔɹɛst/ ? Fête (talk) 22:40, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

 * I pronounce it with a short "o", but I've heard it pronounced as you suggest. Dictionaries seem to insist on the "i" ending (after forīs?), but "ɛst" is also commonly heard.  I'm not sure what people consider the "proper" pronunciation.  (I see that you've added this variant to the entry.)   D b f  i  r  s   22:52, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

welcome
Does the word welcome can be pronounced /ˈwɛlkʌm/ ? Fête (talk) 23:50, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * FYI, the grammatically correct way to say that would be "Can the word welcome be pronounced /ˈwɛlkʌm/?" - -sche (discuss) 00:22, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

 * The second vowel is normally shortened because the stress is on the first syllable. Your pronunciation sounds more like "well come" than "welcome", so it would sound slightly odd, but not seriously wrong to most people.    D b f  i  r  s   19:54, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * When the word is a sentence by itself I think ˈwɛlkʌm sounds pretty much right. —msh210℠ (talk) 17:55, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It probably sounds more natural in American accents.   D b f  i  r  s   21:46, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think the distinction is phonemic though. It is true that (maybe only in American English?) /ə/ is often realized as [ʌ]. But this has nothing to do with welcome deriving from come, which has /ʌ/. --WikiTiki89 21:52, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

ticket
Can the word ticket be pronounced /ˈtɪkɛt/ ? Fête (talk) 00:44, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

 * The two vowels are normally the same, but one occasionally hears the "spelling pronunciation". It's not usual, but it would probably not be considered particularly odd, or even noticed as different by many people.    D b f  i  r  s   20:02, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * In English? No, to me that sounds very odd. I can't say it without putting the stress on the second syllable. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:29, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I can say it with the stress remaining on the first syllable, but I would do so only if I were explaining the spelling. I agree that it would sound a bit odd in normal conversation, and should not be added as an alternative in our entry.  I'll have to listen more carefully to the Yorkshire cricket commentaries to hear if they ever say "/ˈwɪkɛt/".  The dialectal /ˈtɪkət/ is much more common, but it doesn't deserve an entry.    D b f  i  r  s   22:17, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

portrait
Can the word portrait be pronounced /ˈpɔɹtɹeɪt/ ? Fête (talk) 23:46, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Yes, that's a UK variant for those who pronounce the first "r" but without a trill. The pronunciation /ˈpɔːtɹeɪt/ is much more common, as in the entry because it's easier to say.    D b f  i  r  s   09:10, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

rule of law
Anyone else find the definition given here too narrow? Compare our definition ("The doctrine that no individual is above the law and that everyone must answer to it.") with Wikipedia's: "a legal maxim whereby governmental decisions are made by applying known legal principles." ---> Tooironic (talk) 06:49, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Sounds like two different definitions: one saying (roughly) government must obey the law, and the other (roughly) that people must. (I.e., not a question of narrowness but of difference in scope.) I don't know which is correct. (Perhaps both are.) —msh210℠ (talk) 17:54, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * OK. I'll add the Wikipedia definition as a separate sense then. Thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 00:02, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

volume
Can you turn up the volume of the file File:Zh-ruǎn-alt.ogg please ? Fête (talk) 21:34, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I think you’re better off asking at Commons. — Ungoliant (Falai) 21:39, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed.--Prosfilaes (talk) 22:55, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Where is the Wikimedia Commons Tea room ? Fête (talk) 22:19, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Can you turn up the volume of the file File:Fr-Normandie-Marseille.ogg ? Fête (talk) 23:10, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Is there a way to standardize at an adequate level the volume of all the pronunciation files we link to? I have found perhaps 10% to be inadequate in this regard. In addition there seem to be even more that are indistinct. I have not had such problems at competitive online dictionaries. DCDuring TALK 23:44, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

land
"A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland." How is that sense used? Is it used in such a way that it's distinct from "a country or region"? - -sche (discuss) 23:48, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

especially
In this edit, an IP from Saint Louis added /ɛkˈspɛʃli/ as a Midwestern US pronunciation of the word. Midwesterners: is that right? - -sche (discuss) 04:16, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Regardless of whether it is correct, do we really want to include every dialectal pronunciation? We could end up with dozens, or even hundreds for some words.    D <font color="#00ccff">b <font color="#44ffcc">f  i  r  s   11:28, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Another namespace for pronunciations? It would enable us to do more in that area without clogging up the landing screen and pushing definitions far down the page. I really don't understand why anyone primarily interested in English would bother with Wiktionary for basic words when there is so little useful information on the landing screen. DCDuring TALK 11:42, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I don’t see why not. The more the merrier. — Ungoliant (Falai) 19:51, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * If an entry has more than a certain number of pronunciations, they can be collapsed into a table like at [[pecan]] and [[háček]]. But I think it would be detrimental and highly POV to entirely exclude certain accents. There are more people with a Midwestern accent (10 million people live in Chicagoland alone) than use RP (I see the number "3% of the population by the 1970s" thrown around: that's <2 million) or have a New Zealand accent (New Zealand is an independent, majority-English-speaking, dictionary-producing nation of 4 million people) combined. - -sche (discuss) 20:20, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I doubt that this is the dominant pernunciation there. The actual number of speakers may be more like the number of kiwis. The underlying problem is attestation of any of pronunciations not identical to those in published works, ie, dictionaries. DCDuring TALK 21:46, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, I don't think /ɛkˈspɛʃli/ is the Midwestern pronunciation—and if no-one comments soon thinking that it is, I'll remove it. I am opposing the suggestion that Midwestern or other dialectal pronunciations should be categorically excluded, not supporting /ɛkˈspɛʃli/. - -sche (discuss) 23:59, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I wasn't proposing that we exclude any common pronunciation, but I would recommend that we restrict our list to General American and General British (or "BBC English" ― I agree that "RP" is an anachronism) with possibly other regions where there is a significant difference, because we would need lots of extra IPA symbols to include every variation, and IPA is already difficult enough for most readers. We mentally adjust the meaning of the vowel symbols to our own dialect.  I would be surprised if many Midwesterners consider /ɛkˈspɛʃli/ to be a correct pronunciation.  Is the "intrusive k" as common in American English as the "intrusive r" is in British English?    D <font color="#00ccff">b <font color="#44ffcc">f  i  r  s   14:13, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The pronunciation with /k/ is probably common throughout the U.S., not just in the Midwest, but I suspect it is or  everywhere. We should tag it as such. —Angr 15:40, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not from the Midwest, but my mother was from Iowa, and I've never heard of that pronunciation. I really doubt this is common or widespread, but I have no way to check. I believe Ruakh is the only one of our regulars who's from anywhere near the Midwest, though not that close to Saint Louis. Chuck Entz (talk) 16:04, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It is not too hard to find the spelling expecially in edited works and in reported speech, where it is sometimes pointedly referred to as in error. DCDuring TALK 16:07, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Here's a book specifically advising against the pronunciation with /k/. Rather than having the /k/ pronunciation listed at [[especially]], it could be listed as the pronunciation of the proscribed/nonstandard spelling [[expecially]] (see, for some appearances in print). —Angr 16:11, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I had forgotten that eye dialect spellings are attestable evidence of the existence and nature of deviant pronunciations. They may be exaggerated, but they are certainly suggestive. DCDuring TALK 17:17, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

fête
Why the word fête is pronounced "fight" in Quebec French ? Fête (talk) 18:41, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

volume
Can you turn up the volume of the file File:Fr-Normandie-badminton.ogg please ? Fête (talk) 13:41, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, we don't have control over the speakers attached to your computer. —Angr 15:45, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

for a soldier
Which sense of "for" is used in "Johnny has gone for a soldier"? Does it mean Johnny went to war instead of a soldier? Or that Johnny went to war "for to be" a soldier? - -sche (discuss) 22:17, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Certainly not "instead of". More like "to achieve (a goal/purpose)".
 * wrote , which contains the similar line:
 * Where have all the husbands gone? Gone for soldiers every one.
 * I assume prosodic considerations shaped the sentences. I wouldn't expect to hear the construction in ordinary modern English. DCDuring TALK 00:01, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

 * I'm sure its "to be a solder" - compare "for a sailor"(Alfred Perceval Graves, "The sailor girl"):
 * And first he sent letters, and then he sent none,
 * And three times into prison I dreamt he was thrown;
 * So I shore my long tresses, and stained my face brown,
 * And went for a sailor from Limerick town.

--CopperKettle (talk) 00:11, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * But "for to be a soldier" is not to be found in Google Books. As the examples have some Irish flavor, it may be specific to Irish English. DCDuring TALK 00:21, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * We had an example of a well-studies Irish English deviation from mainstream English in the use of a preposition in the case of after. DCDuring TALK 00:27, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Dissemble (a quote)
A quote from Melville: "Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse of this, namely; all my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. Yet without power to kill, or change, or shun the fact; he likewise knew that to mankind he did now long dissemble; in some sort, did still."
 * 1) 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 41

 * Does this fit to the 3rd meaning of dissemble, namely, " (intransitive) To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings." ? I'm baffled a bit by the phrase; especially by the "in some sort, did still". CopperKettle (talk) 00:05, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * My reading: "In some way, he still did dissemble." DCDuring TALK 00:30, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! To me the clause "he did now long dissemble" seemed already to comprise the meaning of "did still"; I gotta read some grammar books, maybe. (0: --CopperKettle (talk) 00:41, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that contemporary grammar or a dictionary will help with these subtle difficulties, rather than persistence in reading widely. I interpreted "he did now long dissemble" as "he had already dissembled for a long time." (perfect aspect) The whole is slightly different from "He had been dissembling for a long time." in that there seems to be in Ahab's mind a lesser kind of dissembling now than in the more distant past.
 * But my interpretation is not based strictly on grammar, but on my assumption that I can, without doing violence to Melville's intent, rewrite the prose in modern English (my idiolect thereof) based on the structure of the event stream and what the words cannot mean almost as much as what they could have meant to him. DCDuring TALK 02:36, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you, DCDuring! And merry Xmas! --CopperKettle (talk) 08:09, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

kaj in Serbo-Croatian
How is kaj declined in the Kajkavian dialects? Also, is it a cognate of koj and ki? 21:19, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd say it's declined same as šta but I'm not sure so I will make no guesses. Try asking user:Fejstkajkafski, they seem to speak Kajkavian. --biblbroksдискашн 22:00, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

 * N kaj, G česa, D čem/čemu, A kaj, L (pri/u) čem, I čim. Genitive also has čega in some places. Yes, it's cognate to koj and ki (although I'm not sure if they all stem from the reflex with the same ending particle). kajkavski (talk) 23:20, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, thank you. The original form in Proto-Slavic was (a compound of two particles which both declined separately), and in Old Church Slavonic it is found as ; presumably kaj and ki are the direct descendants of that, while koj comes from the other case-forms. Could you add a table to the entry like the one at što/šta? And of you know, one for ča too?  23:31, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

bastard
I doubt that this is always applied to males, just usually so. --Æ&Œ (talk) 21:57, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * For me the senses of "person" and "unpleasant person" are definitely only applied to males. "bastard daughter" gets a lot of hits for the sense of "illegitimate". Siuenti (talk) 23:47, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually there are close to no hits on Google Books for "she is a real bastard", "she is a complete bastard" and "she is such a bastard". There are plenty of hits for "she is a bastard" but they seem only to refer to the illegitimate sense. ---> Tooironic (talk) 00:00, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

ausmerzen
Hello, any German language experts out there. I've been wondering about the etymology of this peculiar word, and the prefix aus- is linked to it. Does it involve the word März? --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 02:32, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello! I am a native German speaker, but do not have any idea. But a good tip is to look at [DUDEN], where you can read that its etymology is unresolved and may come from März, as at this time, weak and unapt sheeps were removed from the flock. --Sae1962 (talk) 09:57, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Kluge's Etymological Dictionary mentions that as the most likely etymology too, but also suggests the possibility of its being derived from Martin because of some agricultural event happening around St. Martin's Day (November 11). —Angr 11:01, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

wiedergutmachen
Sae1962, I'm also wondering about the etymology of this word, apart from the suffix wieder-. Got any idea about the verb that's prefixed, maybe gutmachen? --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 11:41, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Probably. At least it exists separately: see duden.de and canoo.net. Longtrend (talk) 12:33, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Shraft
I was considering entering Shraft. Irish use of English - for instance here - meaning Shrovetide. Not sure how to enter an Irish use of English word though. Help please? -- <i>A LGRIF </i ><font color="#FFD700"> talk 12:57, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Use . That will categorize it in Category:Irish English. —Angr 13:52, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Many thanks -- <i>A LGRIF </i ><font color="#FFD700"> talk 14:15, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

gay marriage, marriage equality
Following User talk:-sche, I thought I'd solicit broader input on three questions: Some cites:
 * 1) A headline like "Minnesota group to push for gay marriage" usually means the group is pushing for same-sex couples to be allowed to marry, not that they're (literally) pushing for gay couples to take the plunge and get married. What figure of speech is this? Just elision?
 * 2) Should it be noted in the entry ([[gay marriage]])? My initial feeling is that it shouldn't be, as I expect it's a general phenomenon and many terms can be used that way.
 * 3) From another angle, there are a number of instances of "marriage equality" which basically mean "the union of two people of the same sex"—for example "Sarah Palin  supported the 1998 Alaska constitutional amendment banning marriage equality". It's possible to interpret "marriage equality" there as "acceptance of both gay and straight unions", but it's very odd—I don't think anyone spoke of apartheid-era South Africa "banning racial equality" rather than "discriminating against blacks". Consequently, it seems figurative enough to include. Do you agree? - -sche (discuss) 06:50, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * "Polikoff suggests through numerous examples that the marriage equality movement “positions the gay rights movement on the wrong side of the culture war over acceptable family structures." An Argument For Same-Sex Marriage, Emily R. Gill - 2012
 * "The law affecting gay and lesbian families in those states would be where it was before marriage equality became a priority" Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law - Page 97, Nancy D. Polikoff, Michael Bronski - 2008
 * "Despite the variety of neutral to negative messages circulating around Asian Americans and marriage equality, there is a large and powerful contingent dedicated to ensuring the right to marry freely for all." Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today - Volume 1 - Page 938 Pass a Method (talk) 11:46, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * @-sche:
 * I seems like metonymy for "public policies permitting or more favorable to gay marriage", which still leaves a lot to one's understanding of the question.
 * Newspaper, especially tabloid, headlines are notorious for their terseness, often using rather strained metonymy to simultaneously fit content into small space and lure potential readers or newspaper buyers. Consider "Total fire ban remains in place". (Context available at Google News.) I don't think we should have an entry for "fire ban" or "total fire ban".
 * I agree that the "marriage equality" case is less transparent, but so is "fire ban", so I'm not at all sure that it really would merit inclusion. OTOH, we seem to bend the rules in areas of topical interest to our contributors, such as certain matters of public policy.
 * -- DCDuring TALK 11:58, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

matzos
"Matzos" is listed on -os as if it were derived from that Hebraic suffix—as if it were "matzo" minus "-o" plus "-os". Isn't it easier to interpret it as "matzo" plus the usual English "-s"? Is there a way to tell the difference, such as pronunciation? The definition of "-os" says it's used on words ending in "-a", anyway, not "-o"... - -sche (discuss) 16:30, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, why aren't "-as" and "-ahs" fully wikilinked on [[-os]]? If they're attested suffixes, they should be linked as [[-as]] and [[-ahs]], right? Are they attested? - -sche (discuss) 16:30, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * -os, -oth et alia aren't actually suffixes in English. They're suffixes in Hebrew (and arguably Yiddish), but they're never appended (except humorously, but not in a CFI-attestability sort of way) to nouns that didn't already have that pluralization back in Hebrew. Put another way, halachoth is not halachah + -oth but taken wholesale from Hebrew halakhót. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 16:37, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Personally, I agree with you, and if you RFD them I'll vote for deletion. But compare [[-x]]. - -sche (discuss) 16:56, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Same thing. Done. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 17:13, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Re "why create -oth?": because past discussions have, IIRC, had mixed results, and I figure we should either have both suffixes or neither suffix, but not only one of the pair. - -sche (discuss) 17:24, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Re: "Is there a way to tell the difference, such as pronunciation?": Absolutely. The Yiddish-derived ending ends in /s/, whereas the native English ending is /z/ after a vowel. I think I've heard both pronunciations used with "matzos" (though I'm not sure; IME "matzo" is usually treated as uncountable in spoken English, à la "bread", so while I see the plural form "matzos" all the time on boxes of matzah, I don't hear it very often; and also, it's generally impossible to tell whether someone is saying matzah and matzahs or matzo and matzos unless they use /s/ or use a spelling pronunciation like [mɑtsoʊ(z)]), so I think [[-os]] is fine.  Re: "'-a', anyway, not '-o'": As I understand it, that's the same ending, just filtered through different traditions. I suck at phonetic IPA, but it's pronounced something like [a] in Sephardic tradition, in some Oriental traditions, in Greek/Roman/Christian/English Biblical tradition (as seen in female given names like "Sarah" and "Leah"), and in Modern Israeli Hebrew, and something like [ɔ] in Ashkenazic tradition, in other Oriental traditions, and in Yiddish. (I'm oversimplifying somewhat — there are also differences in stress placement — and also I don't know very much about this stuff, so I'm probably accidentally oversimplifying due to ignorance. But that's the general idea.) Although the two sets of traditions often get romanized differently, they've never resulted in this being viewed as two distinct endings; "matzo" and "matzah" are perceived as two spellings of the same word, not as two words with the same meaning. (And suddenly I wonder: How come no one ever seems to write "Hanukko"?) —Ruakh <i >TALK</i > 00:17, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I think it's somewhat nonstandard to use it countably, and it terminates with /z/ when it is used thus. In Yiddish, the final vowel of Hebraic feminine nouns, singular or plural, is usually . Oh, and re Hanukko: they do. I could cite Chanuko:, and possibly some other -o forms. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 02:14, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Re: "I think it's somewhat nonstandard to use it countably": I could hardly disagree more. See, , . It's almost the opposite of nonstandard — more like "formal" or "written" or "unusually correct". Or at least "less nativized/anglicized/naturalized".  Re: : Yeah, that's true (and is also how it's pronounced in English). I should probably have written "/ɔ/" rather than "[ɔ]"? I dunno. —Ruakh <i >TALK</i > 02:32, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Alright, I didn't check (obviously). At least in my dialect and experience, it's more common on the boxes than in real people's speech by a long shot. Re [ə]: No, I wouldn't say so. Personally, I believe that a broad transcription of Yiddish is usually inaccurate and bad at describing variation, and the variation I've seen in this specific case ranges from [ə] to [i] to [ɪ] to [ɑ] (OK, the last two I'm not so sure about, but whatever), which is hardly described by /ɔ/. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 02:45, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

sentence
Does thank you is a sentence ? Fête (talk) 21:22, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I think so. Our definition is "A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop." Thank you is grammatically complete and consists of an implied subject ("I") and an expressed predicate ("thank you"). (The rest of the definition, from "and typically" to the end, refers to orthography and has no relevance for grammar.) —Angr 22:14, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

 * By the way, the grammatically correct question is "Is "thank you" a sentence?" --Wikt Twitterer (talk) 17:54, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Help! What's the word for a skinned person?
I have an Edward gorey tarot deck somewhere, full of Gorey-ish words. One card represents a skinned person, and I can't remember the word! Driving me nuts. Anyone?
 * You mean skinned as in flayed? — Ungoliant (Falai) 19:47, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

нежный
Dear colleagues! I am writing the paper about Russian and English wiktionaries. I need in a high quality Russian entry in the English Wiktionary (as an example) in order to describe the structure of the Wiktionary entry. I selected the Russian entry "нежный".

I added quotes. Please, add the translations (to English) of quotations in this entry.

Other sections of this entry are OK, I hope. The audio file with pronunciation I will add. -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 23:19, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

 * I don’t speak Russian, so I can’t help with that. But if you want our best English entry, check háček. — Ungoliant (Falai) 02:14, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Thank you very much, háček article is really pretty good. I will try to do my best with the entry "нежный" and will make screenshots of both these entries. -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 10:39, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Two other good entries, possibly the best as far as semantic relations (i.e. -onyms headers) and translations go, are [[iron]] and [[water]]. - -sche (discuss) 15:04, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * OK. I found "iron" with the help of this Semantic relations (statistics), and thanks for the "water" link. -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 15:44, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

 * I will work on translating the quotes on нежный. --WikiTiki89 12:12, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ translating! --WikiTiki89 14:43, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you! The Wiktionary community is great and very responsive :) -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 15:44, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

court - missing additional verb sense
We are missing the additional verb sense of court as in "court controversy". My Oxford suggests the sense is limited to "risk incurring (misfortune) because of the way one behaves" but a thing, issue or event can court controversy, can't it? ---> Tooironic (talk) 23:57, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * There's also a missing metaphorical sense: to try to get someone's support or favor. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:27, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

 * ✅ and then some, IMHO. DCDuring TALK 01:57, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Great job! (It's also impressive how deficient entries for basic words can be.) - -sche (discuss) 23:19, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I could see some combining of senses, but they are distinguishable. I don't think that our users come to us for these, though. I also didn't add trans tables because I didn't do synonyms, which might provide a couple of good targets for for some senses. DCDuring TALK  02:17, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Fantastic job! Thanks a lot. ---> Tooironic (talk) 01:09, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

吳
The Mandarin entry's transliterations are tagged "reference needed". Anyone know if they're right or not? - -sche (discuss) 18:51, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * All the online dictionaries I've looked at have only the wu2/wú reading for mandarin. Given the preponderance of ng in the other transliterations, na4/nà is plausible as existing somewhere, but it doesn't look good for Mandarin (I could easily be missing something, though). Chuck Entz (talk) 20:38, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Fixed (AFAICT) by 60.240.101.246. - -sche (discuss) 00:40, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

𡰪
The, err, four-corner number of this character is disputed... can anyone verify it? - -sche (discuss) 23:54, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Fixed (AFAICT) by 60.240.101.246. - -sche (discuss) 00:40, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

pouvoir
Is our entry correct that "Pouvoir is not used to mean can in the sense of 'to know how to'" and [[savoir]] should be used instead? The line was tagged. - -sche (discuss) 20:15, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

 * I am not French but that is my understanding, yes. In English you might say "I can (cannot) swim", but in French you would say "je sais nager" (I know how to swim), not "je peux nager" (sth like "I am physically able to swim"? weird sounding?) Equinox ◑ 21:25, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

 * That's my understanding too. —Angr 22:09, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

 * I've removed the tag. - -sche (discuss) 00:02, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Srbijanac
The input of other knowledgeable editors regarding the contentious usage note would be appreciated. See the edit history and talk page for the note's development, removal, reinstatement, and -ification. - -sche (discuss) 23:17, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The definitions are also unclear and, for maximal clarity, should link to Wikipedia articles. - -sche (discuss) 02:18, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

䋖
Is this Japanese character's On reading correct? It was tagged. - -sche (discuss) 23:42, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

 * the reading has been updated by 60.240.101.246. - -sche (discuss) 00:41, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

stubborn
This is quite obviously a pejorative or derogatory term; I have never seen this used as praise. --Æ&Œ (talk) 19:22, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * There's a difference between never being used as praise and being derogatory. I would classify it as having negative overtones, but not really that derogatory. I've heard people being commended for being stubborn in holding to what they believe is right. Chuck Entz (talk) 19:40, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It's no more derogatory than it's definition, and so should not be specially marked. Same goes for other words, like rude. --WikiTiki89 19:49, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Being "stubborn" could be praiseworthy when it means "persistent", especially "persistent in the face of opposition". DCDuring TALK 20:23, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

"to flight" ?
Good evening,

Google translate seems to know a verb "to flight". Does it really exist? --Fsojic (talk) 18:22, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes . Flight as a noun is a common cricket term used for spin bowlers who throw the ball up quite high but still manage to deceive the batsman (well that's a definition of good flight of course, see full toss). You sometimes hear "well-flighted", which is either the noun flight + -ed or from the verb 'to flight', but the existence of "flighted the ball" cannot be explained as noun + -ed. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:33, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * OED also gives the senses to scare frighten, put to flight, to attach feathers or flights to an arrow or dart, and (of wild fowl) to fly in flights. BigDom (t • c) 23:24, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Offensive
Why is the word cunt considered offensive, but not vulva when they mean technically the same thing? Pass a Method (talk) 23:00, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * English treats technical terminology as less offensive, probably due to the perceived clinical detachment of scientists, though perhaps also because it seems more abstract and less familiar. This runs the gamut from feces and sexual intercourse to terms for all the sexual organs. Just for the fun of it, I've been known to come up with innocuous clinical-sounding versions of well-known vulgar expressions: a prime example is "consolidate one's feces" for get one's shit together. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:55, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * extract the urine is a common one too --Wikt Twitterer (talk) 00:04, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
 * What does meaning have to do with anything? Offensive words like cunt are offensive because they used offensively. Cunt just as technically means woman.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:03, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It's a feature of European/Judaeo-Christian-Islamic culture. There are other culture in which there is no offensive/non-offensive version of sexual/excretory terms. Most South American Indian languages have only one term for sex organs, which is considered merely descriptive and non-offensive; speakers are surprised to find out that Westerners do have "offensive" and "non-offensive" versions of those, which to them are as strange as it would be for us to have an offensive and a non-offensive word for "eye" or "nose" or "elbow". An anecdote: a missionary translating religious text into one of these languages felt uncomfortable with the fact that there is only one word for "to have sex" in that language. It is a transitive verb, taking the man as the subject and the woman as the direct object; the best English equivalent in terms of syntactic structure is, but without offensive connotations; but because of this clear structural parallelism, the missionary "felt" that the bad connotations were there (even though they weren't), so he introduced the practice of using another verb to also mean "have sex" -- a verb that had previously been used only to mean something like "to make (something) bad, rotten", "to spoil" (also "to betray"). So he literally introduced the practice of saying "he spoiled her / made her bad, rotten" to mean "he fucked her". The speakers apparently found that funny and, last I heard of it, were actually using this word in this new sense, following the missionary's lead. --Pereru (talk) 00:40, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Just about any dictionary from a century or more ago substitutes Latin euphemisms for taboo English words, such as membrum virile for penis. Technical- or classical-language versions add distance. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:16, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

,
I've done my best to give a good translation to these two Latvian terms and the (one) example of usage I found in an online dictionary, but I'm not happy with the result; I'm not sure it's acceptable English. Would perhaps one of you magical native speakers have a look and tell me if what I wrote makes sense, and how it can be improved? Thanks in advance! --Pereru (talk) 00:47, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Would the definition be furrow? — Ungoliant (Falai) 19:10, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * It's more like is the crest of a furrow and  its depression -- if you think of furrows as if they were waves... Would this be acceptable in English? --Pereru (talk) 16:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * See Ridge and furrow Chuck Entz (talk) 17:15, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

title: Wiktionary:Tea room/2012/December


text: serjeanties

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

title: serjeanties


text: sergeanties

title: sergeanties


text: sergeanty

title: sergeanty


text:
Euxine

Etymology
From, from +. See also, with the first letter capitalized.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Black Sea

title: Euxine


text:
at the time

Prepositional phrase

 * 1) Back then, at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past.
 * 2) * Wednesday June 02, 2021, Has the Northern Ireland Protocol undermined the United Kingdom?
 * Similarly, both the Government and the EU argued at the time the deal was agreed that they were upholding the Good Friday Agreement by implementing the Protocol.
 * Similarly, both the Government and the EU argued at the time the deal was agreed that they were upholding the Good Friday Agreement by implementing the Protocol.

Translations

 * Catalan: en aquell moment, en el seu moment
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 當時
 * Czech: v té době,
 * Danish: dengang
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: tiutempe
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: zu der Zeit,
 * Italian:
 * Ladin: ntlëuta
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: den gang, dengang
 * Nynorsk: den gong
 * Polish: w tamtym czasie
 * Portuguese: : naquela hora, aquela hora, na hora; : naquela época / aquela época / na época, à época
 * Spanish: en ese momento

title: at the time


text:
tiddle

Etymology
From a variant of. See.

Verb

 * 1)  To treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand.
 * 2)  To potter about; to do something idly.
 * 3)  To urinate.
 * 1)  To urinate.

title: tiddle


text: tiddles

title: tiddles


text: tiddling

title: tiddling


text:
gummistövel

Noun

 * 1) a Wellington boot, a gumboot

title: gummistövel


text:
cocodril

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) crocodile

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) crocodile

title: cocodril


text: peroxysome

title: peroxysome


text: peroxysomes

title: peroxysomes


text:
Talk:compræhensive

RFV
I tried: compraehensive, comprxhensive, comprrehensive, comprsehensive, comprashensive, comprarhensive, comprœhensive, compræhenfive, compraehenfive, comprrehenfive, comprsehenfive, comprashenfive, comprarhenfive, comprxhenfive, compriehensive, comprjehensive, comprjehenfive, compriehenfive and none of them turned up any relevant results. --Æ&Œ (talk) 06:20, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * It's an inconsistent spelling, as æ often replaces a, not e! Could be just a total error. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:29, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * It could charitably be viewed as hypercorrection, as if many uses of "e" in modern spellings of Latin-derived words were improper alterations of "ae". Or it is intended as an intentional archaicism. The valid ones are fine, though it seems to me we've overemphasized them. This one seems quite unsupportable in English, though Lewis and Short does show compraehendo as an alternative spelling of comprehendo. DCDuring TALK 18:59, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * My mistake; English pre is from Latin prae. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:51, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Uncited in over three months; deleted. —Angr 10:01, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

title: Talk:compræhensive


text:
Moyamoya disease

Noun

 * 1) A disease in which certain arteries in the brain are constricted, blocking blood flow.

title: Moyamoya disease


text:
Moyamoya syndrome

Noun

 * 1) Moyamoya disease

title: Moyamoya syndrome


text:
Talk:sourcefulness

RFV
I would have speedied it as vague nonsense, but it was too time-consuming to check for usage because of line-wrap breaking of resourcefulness, and I don't like to speedy without checking. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:07, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, it seems to exist - but what it means is a bit impenetrable. (many false hits are for re-sourcefulness). SemperBlotto (talk) 08:38, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * In its current form I would speedy it. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:03, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Special:WhatLinksHere/sourceful, just delete it please. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:18, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * That sourceful as no links and is absent is immaterial to RfV. In any event, apparently sourceful has some meaning in Yoga, but I haven't found any valid hits for sourcefulness connected with Yoga. DCDuring TALK 15:41, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

 * Deleted. —Angr 10:04, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

title: Talk:sourcefulness


text:
Talk:Friendsgiving

RFV
Protologism? I can see it only in the one cite given. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:33, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 20:03, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

title: Talk:Friendsgiving


text:
Talk:ave.

RFV
Talk:ave. - -sche (discuss) 19:17, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

title: Talk:ave.


text:
Talk:ave

RFV
Tagged [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ave.&diff=18819521&oldid=17219957] but not listed. - -sche (discuss) 22:25, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Cited. —msh210℠ (talk) 06:40, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

 * Thanks! I've duly passed "ave", and removed the maths sense from "ave.", though because ave. had other content, the entry still exists and is principally a soft redirect to ave, so no content is really lost (in case the sense is real). - -sche (discuss) 00:18, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Mixed pronunciation
This is pronounced [ɑːvi] here. Mistake or alternate? DAVilla 07:28, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Mistake, I believe. Of course, if it's widespread enough it might count as an alternate pronunciation, in a descriptivist way. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 07:43, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

title: Talk:ave


text:
Talk:cratolagnia

RFV
It's been here for two years, but I don't think it even exists outside of wordlists. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 08:30, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 00:25, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

title: Talk:cratolagnia


text: neatvērusī

title: neatvērusī


text:
Talk:ᐎᑭᐱᑎᔭ

RFV
A very unlikely creation by an anon. As an LDL, Cree needs just one use or mention. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 20:34, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * A Korean IP, at that. They must have just copied it from Cree Wikipedia. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:26, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Failed; deleted. —msh210℠ (talk) 18:12, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

title: Talk:ᐎᑭᐱᑎᔭ


text:
vunnella

Noun

 * 1) (dress) skirt

title: vunnella


text: Category:Dutch short forms

title: Category:Dutch short forms


text: neaudzējusī

title: neaudzējusī


text:
Talk:angesäuert

RFV
I question the (existence and) attestability of comparative and superlative. Can anyone verify them? -- Gauss (talk) 12:56, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:48, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

title: Talk:angesäuert


text:
Talk:שאָטאיש

RFV
Yiddish. The spelling seems somewhat unlikely to me, but who knows. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 22:20, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Weinreich's dictionary spells it שאָטיש and does not include the meaning "plaid". —Angr 22:45, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Uncited after almost two months, so deleted. —Angr 09:51, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

title: Talk:שאָטאיש


text:
Talk:ne en unu tago elkreskis Kartago

RFV
The presence of even two durably archived cites does not seem to be forthcoming. As an aside, I'll count anything written by Zamenhof to be a "well-known work". —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 22:51, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

 * It shows up on Google Books with a "Full View" in Linguo internacia attributed to Zamenhof and with "No preview available" in Proverbaro by Ludwik Lazar Zamenhof.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:06, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

 * Quoted two more usages of the proverb. ~ Röbin Liönheart (talk) 10:52, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 * We have three cites attesting now, so let's call this RFV passed. ~ Röbin Liönheart (talk) 23:31, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

The Zamenhof one is a mention, though.__Gamren (talk) 15:22, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

title: Talk:ne en unu tago elkreskis Kartago


text:
Talk:organolithium

RFV
Rfv-sense: Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond

The adjective sense seems just an attributive use of the noun sense. If the nomination is controversial, please move to RFD; otherwise, let us seek evidence of distinctly adjectival uses. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:04, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

 * Very many Google book hits for "organolithium compound" and "organolithium chemistry". Would they count? SemperBlotto (talk) 18:11, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Would many hits in make "lithium" an adjective in your eyes? I think what is interesting is that Google search for "organolithium" seems to find very many attributive uses of "organolithium" and very few standalone noun uses. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:48, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I see what you mean. In fact, chemists virtually never use the term as a simple noun, always using "organolithium compound" or "organolithium reagent" and so on. Of course, if we delete the adjective sense, then we have nowhere to hang the translations (I am having trouble finding translations of the noun). SemperBlotto (talk) 18:56, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I am striking and retracting the nomination, as it seems to do more harm than good, per "chemists virtually never use the term as a simple noun". --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:17, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

title: Talk:organolithium


text:
Talk:UMQRA

RFV
Really? SemperBlotto (talk) 17:11, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * If the random Tumblr link is an indication, this is a joke based on a seemingly unintelligible morse code message that features in an episode of BBC's Sherlock. "Have UMQRA" and "do UMQRA" get a few scattered hits on Google, but this looks like a protologism to me, so I'd say delete. Astral (talk) 19:50, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The link strongly suggests that this does not mean sexual intercourse. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:35, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

 * Deleted as a protologism. - -sche (discuss) 22:52, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

title: Talk:UMQRA


text: nebijusī

title: nebijusī


text:
woef

Interjection

 * 1)  sound of a dog barking

Interjection

 * 1) woof sound of a dog barking

title: woef


text:
Talk:eugeuia

RFV
A misspelling, not common except among us seniors too proud to wear spectacles. DCDuring TALK 01:23, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, it's also a not-uncommon scanno, so it will take a while to confirm the obvious. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:34, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

 * Oh gawd, is it eugenia? If so, this child of mine is dead to me and can be aborted (unless anyone really wants to verify a misspelling). Equinox ◑ 01:41, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, the error seems to come from the source file that also was used to produce this. Speedied as a mechanical copy of someone else's error. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:54, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

title: Talk:eugeuia


text: nebraukusī

title: nebraukusī


text:
melocoton

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  A kind of yellow-fleshed peach having red skin
 * 2)  A quince.

title: melocoton


text: melocotons

title: melocotons


text:
Talk:aptonym

RFV
Only a few thousand Google hits, many of which are derived from Wikipedia. It could use some citation. Dominic·t 06:35, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Ive definitely seen it outside Wikipedia, including on websites that are very unlikely to have borrowed the term from Wikipedia. Also, Wikipedia seems to prefer the spelling aptronym.  One site that I contributed to that had a list of aptonyms has moved, and I can't really prove that it was older than the Wikipedia article other than the fact that I remember where I was living and I moved out in 2004.  The Wikipedia article began on March 30, 2005. Soap (talk) 23:21, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Cited IMHO. DCDuring TALK 01:13, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Passed. DAVilla 04:54, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

title: Talk:aptonym


text:
opalisierend

Adjective

 * 1) opalescent

title: opalisierend


text:
Horvātijas Republika

Proper noun

 * 1) Republic of Croatia official name of Croatia

title: Horvātijas Republika


text: orangen

title: orangen


text: orangem

title: orangem


text: Horvātijas Republikā

title: Horvātijas Republikā


text:
Orthopädie

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) orthopaedics

title: Orthopädie


text: Horvātijas Republiku

title: Horvātijas Republiku


text: Category:sh:Discordianism

title: Category:sh:Discordianism


text: Horvātijas Republikai

title: Horvātijas Republikai


text: Horvātijas Republikas

title: Horvātijas Republikas


text: Category:ota:Poetry

title: Category:ota:Poetry


text: Category:sah:Wine

title: Category:sah:Wine


text:
Osseointegration

Noun

 * 1) osseointegration

title: Osseointegration


text:
oxidisch

Adjective

 * 1)  oxidic

title: oxidisch


text:
horvātisks

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Croatian relating to the Croatian language; relating to Croats or to Croatia

Usage notes
English “Croatian” as an attributive adjective usually corresponds in Latvian to, the genitive plural form of. The adjective is commonly used as a predicate (“this is Croatian”), or in its adverbial form.

title: horvātisks


text:
oxidic

Adjective

 * 1)  Relating to an oxide

title: oxidic


text: Category:oc:Capital cities

title: Category:oc:Capital cities


text: Category:egy:Funeral

title: Category:egy:Funeral


text: Category:sa:Clothing

title: Category:sa:Clothing


text: Category:ovd:Time

title: Category:ovd:Time


text: Category:ga:Visualization

title: Category:ga:Visualization


text: Category:ga:Interdisciplinary fields

title: Category:ga:Interdisciplinary fields


text:
undertide

Etymology 1
From, equivalent to +.

Noun

 * : originally terce and the morning, later noon and the early afternoon.

Synonyms

 * 9 a.m.
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:morning
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:midday
 * ; see also Thesaurus:afternoon

title: undertide


text: undertides

title: undertides


text: Category:km:Military

title: Category:km:Military


text: Category:km:Hunting

title: Category:km:Hunting


text: Category:nn:Currency

title: Category:nn:Currency


text: Category:nn:Money

title: Category:nn:Money


text: Category:ga:Cosmetics

title: Category:ga:Cosmetics


text:
carrol

Etymology 1
See.

Etymology 2
See.

title: carrol


text: carrols

title: carrols


text: Category:be:Cats

title: Category:be:Cats


text: Category:be:Felids

title: Category:be:Felids


text: supplejacks

title: supplejacks


text: Category:nrf:Nautical

title: Category:nrf:Nautical


text:
به جای

Preposition

 * 1) instead of

title: به جای


text: Category:xmf:Colors

title: Category:xmf:Colors


text: Category:xmf:Vision

title: Category:xmf:Vision


text:
horvāts

Etymology
Borrowed from, from ; cf. 🇨🇬. The original meaning was thus “highlander, mountaineer.” A different opinion is that this may be a non-Slavic, possible Germanic or Iranian, word.

Noun

 * 1) a (male) Croatian, a man from Croatia or of Croatian descent
 * 2)  Croatian, pertaining to Croatia and its people
 * 1)  Croatian, pertaining to Croatia and its people
 * 1)  Croatian, pertaining to Croatia and its people

title: horvāts


text: Category:xmf:Senses

title: Category:xmf:Senses


text: Category:xmf:Light

title: Category:xmf:Light


text: Category:xmf:Energy

title: Category:xmf:Energy


text: Category:ka:Nonverbal communication

title: Category:ka:Nonverbal communication


text:
බත්

Etymology
Probably related to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) rice, specifically cooked rice

title: බත්


text: Category:ne:Eurasia

title: Category:ne:Eurasia


text: Category:da:Metrology

title: Category:da:Metrology


text: Category:ba:Hygiene

title: Category:ba:Hygiene


text: Category:ba:Health

title: Category:ba:Health


text: Category:vo:Wine

title: Category:vo:Wine


text: Category:ja:Phonology

title: Category:ja:Phonology


text: Category:nci:Roads

title: Category:nci:Roads


text: Category:nci:Road transport

title: Category:nci:Road transport


text: pad stitches

title: pad stitches


text:
horvātiete

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a (female) Croat, a Croatian woman, a woman from Croatia or of Croatian descent

title: horvātiete


text: horvātietē

title: horvātietē


text: horvātietes

title: horvātietes


text: horvātietēs

title: horvātietēs


text: horvātieti

title: horvātieti


text: horvātietei

title: horvātietei


text: horvātiešu

title: horvātiešu


text: horvātietēm

title: horvātietēm


text: horvātu

title: horvātu


text: horvāta

title: horvāta


text: horvātā

title: horvātā


text: horvātam

title: horvātam


text: horvāti

title: horvāti


text: horvātiem

title: horvātiem


text: horvātos

title: horvātos


text: horvātus

title: horvātus


text: nedabūjusī

title: nedabūjusī


text: Category:axm:Medicine

title: Category:axm:Medicine


text: Category:axm:Materials

title: Category:axm:Materials


text: Category:axm:Matter

title: Category:axm:Matter


text: nediskutējusī

title: nediskutējusī


text: Category:axm:Foods

title: Category:axm:Foods


text: Category:axm:Food and drink

title: Category:axm:Food and drink


text: Category:Dutch circumpositions

title: Category:Dutch circumpositions


text: Category:ur:Smoking

title: Category:ur:Smoking


text: Category:fo:Metrology

title: Category:fo:Metrology


text: Category:uk:Arithmetic

title: Category:uk:Arithmetic


text: Category:it:Fishing

title: Category:it:Fishing


text: Category:fi:Metrology

title: Category:fi:Metrology


text: Category:ar:Firearms

title: Category:ar:Firearms


text: Category:ar:Weapons

title: Category:ar:Weapons


text: Category:ar:Hunting

title: Category:ar:Hunting


text: murries

title: murries


text:
murry

Noun

 * 1) moray eel

title: murry


text: Category:tt:Chemical elements

title: Category:tt:Chemical elements


text: Category:fa:Linear algebra

title: Category:fa:Linear algebra


text: Category:fa:Algebra

title: Category:fa:Algebra


text:
pindal

Etymology
From, ultimately cognate to , which see.

Noun

 * 1)  The peanut.

title: pindal


text: pindals

title: pindals


text:
pindar

Noun

 * 1)  or pindal ("peanut").

title: pindar


text: pindars

title: pindars


text: Category:agx:Earth sciences

title: Category:agx:Earth sciences


text:
pleidhce

Noun

 * 1) flake; fleecy tuft
 * 2)  simpleton, fool

title: pleidhce


text: Category:pt:Pharmaceutical drugs

title: Category:pt:Pharmaceutical drugs


text: Category:tr:Body art

title: Category:tr:Body art


text: Category:et:Metrology

title: Category:et:Metrology


text: Category:abm:List of related-to categories


text: Category:abm:All topics

title: Category:abm:All topics


text: Category:pt:Geomorphology

title: Category:pt:Geomorphology


text:
Thread:User talk:Yair rand/Comment gadget/reply (8)

Done.


text:
pelioma

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A livid ecchymosis.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) pelioma

title: pelioma


text: peliomata

title: peliomata


text:
achterin

Etymology
.

Adverb

 * 1) in the back/rear

Preposition

 * 1) in the back/rear of

title: achterin


text: Category:es:Baby animals

title: Category:es:Baby animals


text: Category:mt:Metrology

title: Category:mt:Metrology


text: 𠃊

title: 𠃊


text: Category:pt:Christmas

title: Category:pt:Christmas


text: Category:pt:Holidays

title: Category:pt:Holidays


text: ñoña

title: ñoña


text: ñoños

title: ñoños


text: ñoñas

title: ñoñas


text: Category:ssf:Pathology

title: Category:ssf:Pathology


text: Category:ssf:Medicine

title: Category:ssf:Medicine


text:
забыться

Verb

 * 1) to doze, to drop off
 * 2) to become oblivious, to lose contact with reality
 * 3) to forget oneself, to cross the line of what is allowed or to lose control over oneself
 * 1) to forget oneself, to cross the line of what is allowed or to lose control over oneself
 * 1) to forget oneself, to cross the line of what is allowed or to lose control over oneself

title: забыться


text:
Paukenröhrchen

Noun

 * 1) grommet (tympanostomy tube)

title: Paukenröhrchen


text:
Öhrchen

Noun

 * 1) ; little ear

title: Öhrchen


text: Category:Circumpositions by language

title: Category:Circumpositions by language


text:
Perowskit

Noun

 * 1)  perovskite

title: Perowskit


text:
spektrometrisch

Adjective

 * 1) spectrometric

title: spektrometrisch


text:
photospektrometrisch

Adjective

 * 1) photospectrometric

title: photospektrometrisch


text:
photospectrometric

Adjective

 * 1) Relating to photospectrometry

title: photospectrometric


text:
photospectrometry

Noun

 * 1) spectrometry, especially that which uses visible light

title: photospectrometry


text: Prothesen

title: Prothesen


text: Category:Dutch terms derived from Punjabi


text: Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2013/March 5


text:
تحشد

Verb

 * 1) to amass, to accumulate, to mass, to concentrate

title: تحشد


text: ح ش د

title: ح ش د


text:
احتشد

Verb

 * 1) to concentrate, to amass, to accumulate, to mass, to assemble, to rally, to congregate, to gather, to crowd
 * 2) to collect in numbers, to pile up, to press together, to teem
 * 3) to meet, to muster
 * 4) to converge, to cluster, to get together, to flock together, to crowd together

title: احتشد


text: Category:Norman terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin


text: kattenluik

title: kattenluik


text:
ص ب ر

Root

 * 1) Related to binding
 * 2) Related to patience
 * 3) Related to perseverance, endurance

Derived terms

 * Verbs

 * Adjectives
 * 1

 * Nouns
 * 2
 * 2

title: ص ب ر


text:
sermuļāda

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) ermine skin, fur

title: sermuļāda


text:
bath towel

Noun

 * 1) A towel used to dry the body after bathing.

Translations

 * Catalan: tovallola de bany
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: bantuko
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish: tuáille folctha
 * Italian: asciugamano da bagno
 * Korean: 목욕 수건, 목욕타올
 * Portuguese: toalha de banho, lençol de banho
 * Russian: ба́нное полоте́нце
 * Spanish: toalla de baño
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Welsh: lliain mawr

title: bath towel


text:
sermuļa āda

Noun

 * 1) ermine skin, fur;

title: sermuļa āda


text:
beach towel

Noun

 * 1) A towel for use at the beach, typically larger than a normal household towel so that a person can use it to lie on the sand.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 沙灘毛巾
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: rantapyyhe
 * French: serviette de plage
 * Russian: пля́жное полоте́нце
 * Spanish: toalla de playa
 * Swedish:

title: beach towel


text:
صابر

Verb

 * 1) to bear stoutly

Etymology 2
of.

Adjective

 * 1) patient
 * 2) suffering, enduring
 * 3) steadfast

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) patient
 * 2) enduring
 * 3) forbearing
 * 4)  a title of Prophet Job.
 * 1)  a title of Prophet Job.

title: صابر


text: sermuļa ādā

title: sermuļa ādā


text:
تصبر

Verb

 * 1) to be patient, to have patience
 * 2) to persevere, to endure

title: تصبر


text:
streymur

Etymology
From, from , from , which is derived from.

Noun

 * 1) a stream, a current
 * 2) an electric current

Derived terms

 * (direct current)
 * (direct current)
 * (direct current)
 * (direct current)

title: streymur


text: sermuļa ādās

title: sermuļa ādās


text:
اصطبر

Verb

 * 1) to be patient, to have patience
 * 2) to persevere, to endure

title: اصطبر


text: sermuļa ādas

title: sermuļa ādas


text: sermuļa ādām

title: sermuļa ādām


text: sermuļa ādu

title: sermuļa ādu


text: sermuļa ādai

title: sermuļa ādai


text:
cappiello

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) hat

title: cappiello


text: sermuļādu

title: sermuļādu


text: sermuļādā

title: sermuļādā


text: sermuļādās

title: sermuļādās


text: sermuļādas

title: sermuļādas


text: sermuļādām

title: sermuļādām


text: sermuļādai

title: sermuļādai


text: nedzērusī

title: nedzērusī


text:
استكلب

Etymology
?

Verb

 * 1) to be raging, to be raving, to be furious, to be mad, to be frenzied, to be possessed

title: استكلب


text: neiearusī

title: neiearusī


text: neindējusī

title: neindējusī


text: Category:Italian terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin


text: Category:Spanish terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin


text: neizarusī

title: neizarusī


text: Category:French terms prefixed with dia-


text: neizteikusī

title: neizteikusī


text: neiztulkojusī

title: neiztulkojusī


text:
diastéréotope

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  diastereotopic

title: diastéréotope


text: kodusī

title: kodusī


text:
Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hrugnaz

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) spawn of frogs or fish; roe

title: Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hrugnaz


text: nekodusī

title: nekodusī


text:
директива

Noun

 * 1) directive

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) directive instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal

title: директива


text:
diagenétique

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  diagenetic

title: diagenétique


text:
Friendsgiving

Noun

 * 1) A Thanksgiving feast held by and for someone's friends.

title: Friendsgiving


text:
Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/d-k-ruk

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *dljəkʷ (Coblin, 1986)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *d-k-ruk (Matisoff, 2003, STEDT); *d-kruk (Matisoff, 2003); *d-ruk (Chou, 1972; Benedict, 1972); *d-ruk ⪤ d-k-rok (LaPolla, 1987)

Numeral

 * 1) six

Descendants

 * (B-S), (ZS)
 * 六-oracle.svg
 * Middle Chinese:
 * Middle Chinese:

 * Beijing:
 * Chengdu:
 * Guangzhou-Hong Kong:
 * Sixian:
 * Meixian:
 * Min:
 * Coastal Min:
 * Fuzhou:
 * Quanzhou:  ,
 * Xiamen, Kaohsiung, Taipei:  (colloquial),
 * Zhangzhou:  ,
 * Inland Min:
 * Jian'ou:
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written
 * Eastern Bodish:
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * Northern Tangut
 * rGyalrongic
 * Jingpho-Asakian
 * Jingpho
 * Jingpho [Kachin]:
 * Sal
 * Bodo-Garo
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Loloish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Northern Tangut
 * rGyalrongic
 * Jingpho-Asakian
 * Jingpho
 * Jingpho [Kachin]:
 * Sal
 * Bodo-Garo
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Loloish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Burmish
 * Loloish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)


text:
Citations:Friendsgiving

Thanksgiving feast held by one's friends

title: Citations:Friendsgiving


text: nemirsusī

title: nemirsusī


text:
yihadista

Noun

 * 1) jihadist

title: yihadista


text:
precalentar

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to preheat

title: precalentar


text:
tomate de colgar

Noun

 * 1) hanging tomato

title: tomate de colgar


text:
ralladura

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) zest, grated rind

title: ralladura


text:
doradito

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) any of several passerine birds with yellow underparts in the genus, found in South America

Translations

 * Finnish: kerttulinapsija

Etymology
From.

title: doradito


text:
ensaladilla

Etymology
From.

title: ensaladilla


text:
juliana

Noun

 * 1)  cod

Noun

 * 1) julienne
 * 2) dame's rocket

title: juliana


text: levadura de panadería

title: levadura de panadería


text:
へのへのもへ

Etymology
From the hiragana characters used to draw it.

Noun

 * 1) a face drawn using the hiragana characters he (へ), no (の), he (へ), no (の), mo (も), and he (へ)

Usage notes
The first two he are the eyebrows, the two no are the eyes, the mo is a nose, and the last he is the mouth.

title: へのへのもへ


text:
pulpo a la gallega

Noun

 * 1) a dish consisting of boiled octopus garnished with paprika, rock salt and olive oil

title: pulpo a la gallega


text:
tortilla española

Noun

 * 1) Spanish omelet

Noun

 * 1) Spanish omelet

title: tortilla española


text:
פּלייצע

Etymology
From a source; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  shoulder upper portion of torso

title: פּלייצע


text: henohenomohe

title: henohenomohe


text:
dressinne-têbl'ye

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  dressing table

title: dressinne-têbl'ye


text: ح ر م

title: ح ر م


text:
أحرم

Verb

 * 1) to excommunicate
 * 2) to enter into the state of ritual consecration (of a pilgrim to Mecca)

title: أحرم


text:
تحرم

Verb

 * 1) to be forbidden, to be prohibited, to be interdicted
 * 2) to be holy, to be sacred, to be sacrosanct, to be inviolable

title: تحرم


text:
drannet

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  dragnet; drawnet

title: drannet


text:
احترم

Verb

 * 1) to honor, to revere, to venerate, to esteem, to respect

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to respect

title: احترم


text:
doque

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  dock leaf

title: doque


text:
استحرم

Verb

 * 1) to deem sacrosanct, to deem sacred, to deem holy, to deem inviolable
 * 2) to deem unlawful, to deem impermissible

title: استحرم


text:
أذنب

Etymology
Denominative from the root of.

Verb

 * 1)  to sin, to commit a crime
 * 2)  to be guilty

title: أذنب


text:
استذنب

Verb

 * 1) to declare someone guilty, to find someone guilty

title: استذنب


text:
استتاب

Verb

 * 1) to call on to repent

title: استتاب


text:
Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/mūk-

Etymology
From, ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,.

Verb

 * 1) to lie in ambush; skulk; hide; waylay
 * 2) to steal; rob

Descendants

 * ; müchere
 * ; müchere
 * ; müchere

title: Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/mūk-


text:
Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/b-ləj

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *blyid (Coblin, 1986)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *b-ləy (Matisoff, STEDT); *b-ləy, *b-liy (Chou, 1972; Weidert, 1987); *b-liy (LaPolla, 1987; Benedict, 1972)

Numeral

 * 1) four

Descendants

 * Chepangic:
 * (B-S), (ZS)
 * 四-oracle.svg
 * 四-oracle.svg

 * Beijing:
 * Guangzhou-Hong Kong:
 * Min:
 * Coastal Min:
 * Taiwan:  ,
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodish
 * Tibetic
 * Written
 * Eastern Bodish:
 * Newar:
 * Jingpho-Asakian
 * Jingpho
 * Jingpho [Kachin]:
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Burmish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * Nungish:
 * Trung/Drung/Dulong:
 * Sal:
 * Bodo-Koch:
 * Bodo-Garo:
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * Northern Tangut
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Burmish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * Nungish:
 * Trung/Drung/Dulong:
 * Sal:
 * Bodo-Koch:
 * Bodo-Garo:
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * Northern Tangut
 * Bodo-Garo:
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * Northern Tangut
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * Northern Tangut
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * Northern Tangut

title: Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/b-ləj


text:
p'tit êté

Noun

 * 1)  Indian summer

title: p'tit êté


text:
أجار

Verb

 * 1) to grant asylum, to give sanctuary
 * 2) to protect, to take under one’s wing
 * 3) to stand by someone
 * 1) to stand by someone
 * 1) to stand by someone

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) rent

title: أجار


text:
تجار

Verb

 * 1) to be neighbors, to be adjacent
 * 2) to have a common border

Etymology
From, a plural form later reanalyzed as singular.

Noun

 * : merchants, businessmen
 * 1) merchant, businessman

title: تجار


text:
dalot

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  scupper
 * 2)  gutter

Participle

 * 1) dividing, sharing;

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  sinkhole
 * 2)  scupper

title: dalot


text:
استجار

Verb

 * 1) to seek protection, to seek refuge
 * 2) to appeal for aid
 * 1) to appeal for aid

title: استجار


text:
اسر

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) teardrop

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  asura
 * 2) demon, ogre, monster
 * 3) Devil, Satan

title: اسر


text:
douoyen

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  dean

title: douoyen


text:
Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-ləj-t ~ s-rəj-t

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *s-ləy-t ⪤ *s-rəy-t (Matisoff, STEDT); *s-liy (Benedict, 1972; LaPolla, 1987); *(s-)ləy (Chou, 1972); *(s-)ləy, *s-liy (Weidert, 1987)

Schuessler (2007) relates Chinese ("the chariot roof tilts forward") to this root.

Adjective

 * 1) heavy

Descendants

 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written ,
 * Eastern
 * Jingpho-Luish:
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Written
 * Loloish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi: (as in )
 * Central Loloish
 * Naish:
 * Naic:
 * Nungish:
 * Trung/Drung/Dulong:
 * Naic:
 * Nungish:
 * Trung/Drung/Dulong:
 * Trung/Drung/Dulong:
 * Trung/Drung/Dulong:


text:
سرر

Verb

 * 1) to gladden, to make happy, to delight, to cheer up
 * 2) to give pleasure to, to gratify, to content, to please, to satisfy

title: سرر


text: Citations:palinize

title: Citations:palinize


text:
clèrcot

Noun

 * 1)  clerk

title: clèrcot


text:
cruchot

Noun

 * 1)  little boat

title: cruchot


text:
سار

Verb

 * 1) to step along, pace, go, depart, travel
 * 2) to conduct oneself
 * 3) to cause to depart, cause to travel
 * 4) to function, work (properly), run, be in operation

Verb

 * 1) to confide a secret to, to whisper in someone’s ear

Adjective

 * 1) pleasant, delightful
 * 2) gratifying

Noun

 * 1) key
 * 2) lock

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) starling

Noun

 * 1) starling

title: سار


text:
critchet

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  grasshopper

title: critchet


text:
critchet d'âtre

Noun

 * 1)  house cricket

title: critchet d'âtre


text:
تسرى

Etymology
Normally listed as under the root, but with the verb irregularly behaving as a final-weak verb, as if from the root or.

Verb

 * 1) to take as concubine

title: تسرى


text:
استسر

Verb

 * 1) to try to hide
 * 2) to hide, to be hidden
 * 3) to take as concubine

title: استسر


text:
sellot

Noun

 * 1)  saddle

title: sellot


text:
rouôlot

Noun

 * 1)  roly-poly

title: rouôlot


text:
Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/unseraz

Shouldn't there be a distinction made between the genitive of the personal pronoun and the possessive pronoun? In early Middle Dutch the two seem to be distinct, see possesive and genitive personal pronoun. Even in later Dutch there is a difference between onzer and ons. Jcwf (talk) 03:47, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * That distinction didn't really exist in Proto-Germanic. When the genitive of the personal pronoun was called for, some case form of the possessive determiner was used instead. I don't know which case; in Gothic the genitive pronoun is identical to the neuter plural form of the determiner. 03:58, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Ah! Would it be useful to show the split in the descendents? Or at least to show what is going on, because it is a little strange to click on the genitive in the personal pronoun table and then to find yourself on the possessive page without knowing this. It is also strange not to show forms like onser (dum) and onzer (nl) that do descend from unseraz. It incorrectly creates the impression that the -r was lost in Dutch but kept in German e.g.Jcwf (talk) 06:12, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * But that is exactly what happened. The -er of the Dutch word is a case ending, more specifically the genitive feminine/plural. But in German it is part of the word stem and appears in every form, the genitive actually has another -er: unserer. This is also more obvious when you compare the dative masculine forms: Dutch onzen, German unserem. As for showing the split, I don't really know. What was the genitive form of the pronoun actually used for, other than for case agreement with a verb or a preposition? It certainly wasn't used the way a genitive was more often used, to modify a noun to show possession/relationship, because that is when the determiner was used. This is kind of a strange relic inherited from Indo-European, where the first/second person and reflexive possessives behave as adjectives while others (including the 3rd person) use the genitive form of the pronoun or noun. You can see the exact same thing in Latin too: the possessive is an adjective, and its genitive singular form  is used as the genitive form of the pronoun.  14:55, 5 March 2013 (UTC)


text:
حاق

Verb

 * 1) to sue, to litigate

title: حاق


text:
أحق

Verb

 * 1) to tell the truth, to be right
 * 2) to enforce

Etymology 2
of.

Adjective

 * 1) worthier, more deserving; worthiest, most deserving
 * 1) worthier, more deserving; worthiest, most deserving

title: أحق


text:
استحق

Verb

 * 1) to be worthy, to deserve, to merit
 * 2) to become due, to fall due, to become payable, to mature
 * 3) to be entitled, to have a claim, to lay claim
 * 4) to require, to demand

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to deserve

title: استحق


text:
violonniste

Noun

 * 1)  violinist

title: violonniste


text: pensionoj

title: pensionoj


text: pensionon

title: pensionon


text: pensionojn

title: pensionojn


text:
قرر

Verb

 * 1) to fix, to settle
 * 2) to make sedentary
 * 3) to establish, to determine, to stipulate
 * 4) to assign, to appoint, to schedule, to regulate
 * 5) to decide, to resolve
 * 6) to confirm, to affirm, to aver
 * 7) to report, to relate, to tell

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to decide

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to decide

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to decide, to resolve

title: قرر


text:
أقر

Verb

 * 1) to ratify, to uphold, to adopt, to sanction, to settle, to approve, to affirm, to acknowledge, to recognize, to validate, to consent, to endorse, to assent
 * 2) to fix, to verify, to uphold, to establish, to stabilize, to consolidate
 * 3) to settle, to establish, to make sedentary
 * 4) to safeguard
 * 5) to set up, to institute, to found, to instate
 * 1) to set up, to institute, to found, to instate

Noun

 * 1)  Aker

title: أقر