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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Equinox ◑ 19:02, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

amok (Bokmål), amok (Nynorsk)

I think you have put the etymology back to front to be honest. DonnanZ (talk) 15:48, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

OK, I double-check, but I think the order was wrong before. Give me 5 mins, please B Lemeukx (talk) 16:09, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

If you look into Template:etyl/documentation, it says:

This template takes language codes for its two unnamed parameters:

• The code of the source language — that is, the language the lexeme (word) comes from. Codes for this parameter are noted above in the usage section, and are from Module:languages and Module:families.
• The code of the destination language — that is, the language section where the etymology is being added — for categorization purposes; or - (hyphen) if no category should be added. If omitted, en (English) is assumed.

So for amok, the source language is e.g. en and goes to nb or nn. Before it was wrong ({{der|nn|en|amok}} says: we take a Nynorsk word and it ends in English; but it must be the opposite direction!), now it is correct. B Lemeukx (talk) 16:14, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

nn and nb use the der module, sorry, will correct that. Why has the community here decided to change the order of the source and destination languages? This should not have been done! B Lemeukx (talk) 16:19, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

{{etyl}} cannot be used in Norwegian any more, only {{der}}, {{inh}} and {{bor}} which all replace {{etyl}}. The same will happen with all languages eventually, see Category:etyl cleanup. The language order for the new templates is the reverse of that in {{etyl}}. I hope that explains it. DonnanZ (talk) 16:30, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Takk, God Jul, så, B Lemeukx (talk) 16:45, 23 December 2017 (UTC)