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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Vininn126 (talk) 21:56, 1 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Ingwi edit

Old English Ingwi is not an an-stem and therefore cannot be directly derived from PG *Ingwô, which would look like *Ingwa ~ *Ingwan in OE. It does not belong where you are placing it. Also, this a given name, not the name of the god, and all but surely a shortening from a compound name with *Inguz as the first element, ex. Inguiomer. Tagging @Mnemosientje. -- Sokkjō 03:11, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Old English water edit

I am skeptical that this is an alternative form of wæter. In general you shouldn't just add something like this without clarifying what dialect and time period is involved. Please do so, otherwise I will remove the addition. Thanks! Benwing2 (talk) 23:47, 27 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the heads up! I actually checked this myself yesterday when I first saw your post, and while there are examples on Bosworth Toller that have it typed as "water", checking the scanned sources of those examples shows them with the "wæter"/"ƿæter". So unless there's proof otherwise, I'm fine with the addition being removed. Æzelf89 (talk) 17:26, 30 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Æzelf89 Awesome, thanks for looking into this! Benwing2 (talk) 22:56, 30 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Old English wilcume edit

Ƿes þū hāl, Æzelf89,


I just want to thank you personally for your entry for wilcume.

I had been looking for it.


Keep up the good work,

Cefin Leornendeealdenglisc (talk) 01:58, 12 May 2024 (UTC)Reply