Krun

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Also, thanks a lot for helping out with the Icelandic entries! I'm just starting to learn Icelandic myself, so there's probably still a number of mistakes in there. Thanks for helping to fix those! :) -- Schneelocke 19:22, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

So there's two Icelandic speakers here? How rare! --Expurgator t(c) 19:25, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm not an Icelandic speaker, yet... I'm just a student with a dictionary and some spare time who's trying to *learn* Icelandic. ;) -- Schneelocke 20:01, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm Icelandic, though, so that makes at least one :P --Krun 20:18, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Babel

Hi, its about time we had Babel up and running. Cheers for getting the ball rolling. Do you reckon we should add Category:Icelandic language to Category:User is, and similarly for the rest of the User languages? If you reckon so, then I'll add some. --Expurgator t(c) 09:49, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support. Yeah, perhaps it would be nice to add a "see also" section to these category pages and make them point at each other that way, e.g.

==See also==

*[[:Category:Icelandic language]]

in the Category:User is page, and vice versa. What do you think? --Krun 22:31, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Invitation to contribute

Hi,

You might or might not already be aware that there is now a new system in place for marking translations that need to be checked (those that are suspected of being incorrect or those where it is not clear which sense(s) of a word the translations apply to). (See Wiktionary:Beer_parlour#Translations_to_be_checked_proposal here for the Beer parlour discussion on this topic.)

Translations to be checked are now categorised by language. For example, Category:Translations_to_be_checked_(French) contains a list of all words where French translations need to be checked. This is designed to make the checking of these translations easier to maintain and work with.

I'm contacting everyone who has either expressed an interest in working on translations or has indicated in Wiktionary:Babel that they have a good knowledge of a particular foreign language or languages.

Would you be interested in helping out with the translations to be checked for Danish, for Faroese and for Icelandic? If so, please read the page on how to check translations.

If you want to reply to this message, please do so on my talk page. Thanks for your help you can provide.

— Paul G 10:50, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

{{ja-kanjitab}}

Hi, this is a lot easier than than the -top and -bottom form. {{ja-kanjitab|仏|教}} Robert Ullmann 19:58, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. – Krun 21:33, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Category:Japanese language

Hi, if you see this cat while fixing words (thank you, btw!), please delete it in most cases. There were a lot of words put in the Japanese language cat—probably because there weren't others at the time—that don't belong. The only words that belong there are words about Japanese, e.g. kyūjitai.

You might be interested to know that Category:Japanese language is in the top ten pages referenced by users of the wikt! (not sure why this is so, would be interesting to see the referring pages) Robert Ullmann 11:38, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Adding info ...

You don't need to go to the trouble of reformatting the entry if you don't want, let the bot do the hard work! Add the info to whatever format it is in.) Or what you like! Robert Ullmann 19:03, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

København

You write that København is common gender but it must be neuter gender since we say "et bedre København"? Lennart.larsen 15:56, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

㬂

Question: why are you breaking the readings down into Go'on and Kan'on, just to say there is no Go'on reading? On'yomi are usually the Kan'on reading (Han reading, from the Tang dynasty period). Is it somehow notable that this particular character has no Wu period reading? (Almost no kanji do.) Robert Ullmann 19:53, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

I just think maybe it would be better to break it up into Goon and Kan'on (for every Han character eventually) just to include some more information, since there's plenty of room for it (see 𢄓 and 㦝). Maybe it's not necessary to include the Goon line if there is no such reading, but it still isn't quite useless - it gives the information that there isn't such a reading, rather than just that it hasn't been added to Wiktionary yet. – Krun 20:01, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Okay, but usually "On reading" means Kan'on. (And Kan'on is a much less familiar term ...) Rather than stuffing it in the same field, let's add a parameter goon= for the Go'on reading. on= means Kan'on as it has been. Then we can play with the display format if we like, right now it displays another line after On: when the goon= parameter is present. (And it certainly can be "(none)"). Robert Ullmann 20:20, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

No, "none" doesn't work too well. Better make on and kun conditional. We need kanon= and toon=, then one can use those as variants if one likes (not using on=, presumably). Did that. Robert Ullmann 21:16, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Han Ext B

Very interesting ... one thing: please don't add [common meaning needed] to the entries. {{defn}} doesn't do this on purpose, partly for user presentation, but mostly because people tend to try to add things that shouldn't be there (you might, or might not, be surprised at the amount of bilge entered by people trying to "fill in" the "graphical significance and origin" field). A lot of characters don't have a "common meaning", especially the rarer ones like in Ext B: they are Korean only, or Vietnamese only, or only in Old Chinese, not even in Mandarin. Robert Ullmann 20:03, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, thanks for letting me know. Hehe, yes, it's rather interesting to find so many characters that are Cantonese slang for "penis"… besides, I noticed that one of these (閪) was also Korean, but its Korean pronunciation is totally unrelated, so the characters may even have been made seperately in two places, but coincidentally look the same. – Krun 20:10, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, another thing: this character's (閪) Cantonese meaning is reported in the Unicode standard as "vagina", but in the article cock, it is provided as a translation, so I put both meanings in. Perhaps the latter is inaccurate? – Krun 20:14, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't think so (you trust the wikt translations in cock? Are you nuts? ;-). Cock is 屌 in Cantonese. Note that 閪 is a good example of the troubles with "common meaning"; the Cantonese definition doesn't belong there at all, but in the prior format there was (apparently, but wrongly) a place for everything, and that was the only place it could go. Same with 屌 where the Cantonese is stuffed into the "common meaning," messing up the format enough that the 'bot left it alone.

See w:zh:髒話#香港, and the whole article is interesting. Robert Ullmann 21:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

shitten

I noticed that you changed the tmeplate used on the definition line of shitten under the Verb POS heading to {{past participle of}} from {{past of}}. I originally changed it to {{past of}} in line with inflections listed on the infinitive form article shit, where shitten is given as the simple past and past participle of shit. Which is correct?--Williamsayers79 00:07, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

It is certainly not, and has certainly not been, a standard simple past, since -(e)n is not a simple past ending in any Germanic language (including Old and Modern English). Maybe in some wierd dialect somewhere… but the natural formation should be:

shit - shit/shat - shitten (strong declension)

shit - shitted - shitted (weak declension),

where the strong declension is older, and the weak is newer. A mixed up declension could also develop (e.g. shit - shit - shit, shit - shat - shat, or shit - shat - shitted), which can be due to one form being used more in a certain area, or being used in a set phrase. The modern past participle shit/shat is also in line with the merger of simple past and past in other strong verbs such as let - let - let or sit - sat - sat (a change which was probably due to the increased prominence of weak verbs and the fact that these two forms had already merged in weak verbs [-ed] and [-ed]).

I also notice that in the template used for the verb declension at shit, there is only a single field for simple past and past participle. I will try to fix this…

Well, that should be enough for now… sorry for the long rant :P – Krun 09:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting that out, you know a lot more about verbs than me! --Williamsayers79 14:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Faroese vs Faeroese (jól)

Hi! I notice that you changed the category on jól from Category:Faeroese nouns to Category:Faroese nouns. Although I personally don't care which spelling of 'Faeroese' is used, we seem to be in the process of deleting Category:Faroese language and all subcategories, and moving the entries to Category:Faeroese language. Would you consider (a) changing the category back or (b) making the case — on BP, I'd guess — that the language should be Faroese and not Faeroese? -- Beobach972 21:17, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

I just noticed that the spelling with plain e seems in much more use here than the one with ae (and also on Wikipedia: w:Faroese language, Faroe Islands, and the rest of the internet, it seems: Faroe Islands vs Faeroe Islands, Faroese vs Faeroese). It is clear that only one spelling must be chosen as a standard here on Wiktionary, and the most common one seems to me to be a good choice. – Krun 22:39, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Old Norse Decendants

Hey Krun! What do you think about the design of the ON descendants in the article auga? Or should we find another design? However, I like that idea very much, to list the descendants systematically, as far as possible. Good work! Takk fyrir -- Arne List 16:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I like it. I guess it's much better to use two columns just as with translations, but we must use Template:top2 and Template:mid2 instead of Template:top and Template:mid, since the latter are reserved for translations. – Krun 16:53, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Looks great. However, I should do more about the Danish department later, but first reach my goal with basic Faroese -- Arne List 17:46, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

völvuspám

Could you add Icelandic definitions for völvuspám, mér and bull (as in "Nei, mér finnst þetta bara bull")? Thanks in advance. —Stephen 15:09, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

ignis fatuus

This is an English word? Is that the correct English plural? It looks like Latin to me. --EncycloPetey 00:17, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

It is Latin, but is certainly used in English, just like a lot of words and phrases, e.g. et cetera, radius. The Latin plural has been imported directly in this case, as with radius. – Krun 00:28, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Translation help

Please could you look at the entries for parrot and listen and add any translations you can? (especially Icelandic) Thank you. --EncycloPetey 02:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Added Icelandic translations. --Krun 02:52, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

prosecutable

Are you sure that it is not comparable? Couldn't something be more prosecutable than something else?

It's possible that this word is comparable. We should google it and try to find some good cites for it. --Krun 13:49, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

german nouns - categorization

When you find german nouns that are not in the Category:German nouns yet, like you did on Rücken or Soße, you can use the inflection templates, then you have genitive and plural and they are automatically added to the category, then you dont have to add the Category line manually. [1], [2] Greets, Mutante 18:30, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Old Norse given names

Thank you for editing my Old Norse, and thanks for the Icelandic given names. I'm slowly adding the most popular names in the four other Nordic languages plus German, but I don't have an Old Norse dictionary. I just copy from name books (Kruken&Stemshaug,Otterbjörk,Duden), and I cannot see the logic between Þor-/Þór-/Þorr-/Þórr-, etc. My field is statistics, not etymology.

I would be really grateful for entries on Old Norse given names, like Helgi. It's so much easier to define a name "derived from Old Norse Xxx", and variants can be listed as Descendants. And please go on adding Icelandic names!--Makaokalani 14:01, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Just wondering

Why did you make this change? --BiT 11:59, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I just must say, your etymologies are often much more verbose than necessary. The rules of Icelandic word formation do not need to be explained in the etymology section of every compund word, nor does the origin of each component need to be discussed, as that should properly be done in each component's own entry (in this case, páskar and lilja). In my humble opinion this change makes the etymology more straightforward and easy to use, not to mention more aesthetically appealing. – Krun 17:18, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Hm I see, nobody has mentioned this before and I have added etymologies to multiple pages so I inferred that people were OK with this. Most Icelandic words are composites, and I thought it would be better to fully explain how the word came to be so people could understand it when they look at the page. Like matargerð- if you only say "matur" + "gerð" then some people may wonder "wait a tic, why isn't the word then maturgerð? is it a soundchange or something?". Can you think of some better way to explain that the genitive form of the word "matur" is used to make it adjectival..ish? --BiT 18:01, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I said it doesn't need to be explained on every page. Ideally, there should be an appendix, e.g. Appendix:Icelandic word formation, which explains the rules of Icelandic word formation and the different types of compound words. – Krun 19:09, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

But it would look rather.. silly. "páskar" + "lilja", see here why these two form "páskalilja". I don't know, do you really that that would make things easier? --BiT 23:51, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I don't think a link to the appendix would be needed either, but it would provide reading material for someone who is studying the language. Compounds are most often formed with a genitive in Icelandic, and this comes naturally to competent speakers of the language. There is absolutely nothing special about it, it is just one of the basic features of the language, and if people are really learning Icelandic, they will learn this early on. Putting explanations about such a thing into almost every page is similar to explaining the function of the definite article every time it appears. It is simply unneccessary and irrelevant. – Krun 00:09, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Ah, but let's say that the entries for the words whom are compounded don not exist (for example if the entries "matur" and "gerð" wouldn't exist) people wouldn't know whether it's an irregular compound "ruslatunna", a compound formed with the genitive singular "matarboð", the genitive plural "borðagerðarmaður", and also where the word is attached to the stem of the first word "heim(ur)speki". What I'm trying to say here is that, let's say the user knows adequate Icelandic grammar, and now that the entry "naut" exists and that it has a declension table he can check it and say "aah, the genitive of naut are "nauts" and "nauta", so the compound "nautakjöt" must be formed by compounding the genitive plural with "kjöt". How ever in cases such as "matargerð", there is no declension table (as for now) for the word matur, so that person couldn't infer the etymology. Wow.. perhaps I'm thinking too much for it- but in any case, the etymology "set-up" I used was the one I used to add. What do you think about:

• From páska, the genitive singular of páskar + lilja meaning "lily".

?? --BiT 11:04, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Of course, the declension tables are missing from many Icelandic entries, but then they should of course be added. The trouble is, as you no doubt know, that there is more than one set of declension templates, and neither includes all declension patterns. Of course, one could just use {{is-decl-noun}} and enter all the forms manually if it can't wait for the proper template to be created. If you really want to show the genitive form in the etymology (again, I don't think it necessary in most cases), I would suggest:

From páskar (gen. páska) ‘Easter’ + lilja ‘lily’.

What do you think? In any case, in etymology, the most important thing is where the word comes from. – Krun 23:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok, let's say we were to use

From páskar (gen. páska) ‘Easter’ + lilja ‘lily’.

Wouldn't it rather be

From páskar (Template:genitive páska) "Easter" + lilja "lily".

I think I read somewhere in the guidelines that foreign words (in this case, páskar, páska and lilja) should be italicised, and English words (Easter.. lily..) should be encased with "" but not ‘’. I'm not sure though. Also, what I feel like this version lack is that it's not technically "from" páskar but rather "from" páska. That's why I prefer "from páska (the gen. of páskar)" rather than "from páskar (gen. páska)". Of course like you said this is not of any utmost importance, far from it- but most Icelandic words are compounds, so this is the best way to explain whence the word came. --BiT 23:22, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

My formatting was a bit inexact, I admit. I'm not sure exactly about the italic/nonitalic issue, but I usually don't italicize words of the language of the entry (Icelandic in this case), but I do italicize those of other languages. Perhaps it would be better to italicize all? Well, anyway, technically páskalilja is from páskar and lilja, because páskar and páska is the same word and in this context one is referring to the lexeme as a whole (including all inflected forms), and therefore one must use the word's citation (dictionary) form, which is páskar. If it is relevant, one can add information as to the specific word form (páska) used in the combination, or e.g. cite a certain inflected stem as the source of an added consonant (as in Latin-derived verbs in English ending in -ate). The citation form must, in my opinion, be used first and foremost, and any inflected forms or stems should be in parentheses after it. – Krun 18:45, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I see.. Maybe my reasoning is silly, but the way I did is I first asked my self; what's the word? Ok, the word is "páskalilja" in this case. Ok, what words were conjoined to make that word? "páska" + "lilja". And then basically to dissect the two words. "páska" (explain here...blabla) + "lilja" (not much to explain here). But I don't know.. maybe we should ask other users about what they think is best? --BiT 11:10, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

馬鈴薯

Thanks for catching that, my trust in jdict is eroding rapidly. Cynewulf 05:48, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, they did also list ばれいしょ as a reading, and since じゃがいも also means "potato", it is quite possible that some use that as an ateji reading of 馬鈴薯, although that word is certainly more commonly written ジャガ芋, ジャガイモ or ジャガ薯. ばれいしょ still remains, I think, the main reading of 馬鈴薯, but it would be interesting to do some more research and find out whether じゃがいも is actually a possible, albeit perhaps rare or obsolete, not to mention confusing, reading of this kanji compound. – Krun 10:53, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

FWIW, Cynewulf's link and Jisho.org's entry) are the only places I can find that currently list jagaimo as a reading for 馬鈴薯. But then I think Jisho.org's EDICT source is effectively the same as JDICT, so it might not have any value as another example.

Running a search on google books:"馬鈴薯" "じゃがいも" OR "ジャガイモ" pulls up a number of hits showing text like "馬鈴薯(ジャガイモ)", but it's not clear if the authors intend ジャガイモ to be interpreted as the reading of 馬鈴薯, or just the meaning.

I've updated the etyls at 馬鈴薯 and ジャガイモ, based on my 1988 edition of 小学館国語大辞典, the content at w:ja:ジャガイモ#名称, and http://gogen-allguide.com/si/jyagaimo.html. -- Cheers, Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 22:47, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

CJKV characters that are almost blank

I don't know if you'd be inclined to work on this, but it would be helpful. There are ~100 entries left that are little more than a blank template, at least having the pointer to the Unihan DB. (see Category:Chinese words needing attention) It's a matter of going to that page, extracting the radical number and additional strokes, filling those into the template, the radical itself, then total strokes and the dictionary indices, maybe a few other things, so that the characters go back to Category:Han characters sorted properly. If you'd like ;-) Robert Ullmann 12:03, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

{{db}}

For those speedy deletes, in the future, please indicate the correct spelling (so that can be entered in the deletion comments, hopefully preventing it from being re-entered.) --Connel MacKenzie 21:00, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Requested articles

Shoot, and I thought I was going to keep up with you.  :) Atelaes 01:33, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Just looked like you were on a roll, so I figured I'd give you some more. ;) – Krun 01:35, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, I don't think I'll get to all of those tonight, but soon enough. Btw, Wiktionary:Requested articles:Ancient Greek is always open as well. Atelaes 01:39, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Also, it's generally best to pick words that have a lot of links to them, such as those found at Special:Wantedpages. While we obviously want every word that we don't yet have, the project-wanted articles thing is meant to be for words we have a particular need for. Atelaes 05:57, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, I'll keep it restricted to linked words in future. – Krun 09:43, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

But keep in mind that there is no such restriction on the above-mentioned grc request page. Feel free to put whatever takes your fancy on there. Atelaes 09:45, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. – Krun 09:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Section order

Please do not move the Etymology section of pages to follow Pronunciation. Etymology should come first in almost all cases (the exception being when there is one pronunciation but more than one etymology). --EncycloPetey 19:37, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Also, when you add a template like {{L.}} you must specify the language of the entry if it is not English. Note how I have corrected this entry: [3]. If you do not specify the language, the word will be categorized as English. --EncycloPetey 19:39, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

One more thing: when a Latin verb is given in an etymology, it should be tracked back to the lemma form (first principal part), instead of the present active infinitive (second principal part. See Wiktionary:About Latin#Romance language verbs for a specific example. --EncycloPetey 19:43, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I wasn't quite aware of these Pronunciation/Etymology guidelines, since most pages here seem to put pronunciation first. I was, however, aware of how the categorization works in the etymology templates, but I occasionally forget to put in the language code of the receiving language (most often I realize this myself, but, again, thanks for catching that for me). About the citation form here in Wiktionary, it is quite clear, then, that it is the first person singular present active for Latin and Greek verbs? I know this to be the case in most Latin and Greek dictionaries (all Modern Greek ones of course, since the infinitive has disappeared); my own Cassell's Latin Dictionary being a good example, but many of my sources in etymology cite Latin and Greek verbs in the infinitive (e.g. New Oxford American Dictionary, Dictionary.com, Etymology Online), and that can be a bit of trouble sometimes. I also notice that Category:Latin verbs contains very many verbs in the infinitive, and some verbs even have double entries in varying levels of completeness. There is very little consistency in these Latin verbs, and I feel we need to go systematically through them. I suggest that all the infinitive verbs be listed by a bot in a cleanup category that we could work through. – Krun 01:13, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it's quite clear for Ancient Greek and Latin, though the decision was made after many infinitive entries had been added. (see Wiktionary:About Ancient Greek and Wiktionary:About Latin) Cleanup of these verb entries is ongoing. --EncycloPetey 01:20, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

My, how the tables have turned

So, I went ahead and created Wiktionary:Requested articles:Old Norse, and put an entry in it. Now get to work........thanks. :) -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 22:46, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 23:25, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

No problem. – Krun 23:31, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

húsbóndi

We already have a template for the Icelandic declensions, see Help:Declensions in Icelandic and Template:is-decl-noun. I can't believe you haven't noticed those? --BiT 01:56, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Certainly I noticed them, but I am in the process of creating templates that will be much fewer, and will moreover follow traditional conventions in grouping Icelandic noun declension types. The current template system is much too cluttered and confusing, and some of the groupings seem illogical. There is also another concern which I am addressing, which is that of the current templates' display position (floating to the right). The general convention here on the English Wiktionary places inflection tables under a special heading (Declension, Conjugation or simply Inflection). See for example Latin homo, Ancient Greek ἀνήρ, Russian кактус, Lithuanian žiedas, Faroese verð (the Icelandic declension on the same page clearly does not conform). Of course, the look of these templates must also be standardized, but that can be addressed later (my templates all use Template:is-decl-noun-base as a base for the table, so the look is easy to change; presently they look the same as the Faroese declension templates). – Krun 10:40, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

I was actually quite fond of the right-floating, as it often leaves the space to the right looking empty most of the time, and if it's added under a header like in homo the space to the right of the template just looks empty and it stretches the whole page out. Also should the template {{notred}} be used now and why did you make the dat singular form of viður be "við(i)"? --BiT 00:57, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Regardless of how fond you are of the floating, don't you agree that the location ought to be standardized (for all nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, numbers etc. in all languages)? Putting it under a separate header is by far the most common. Also, to save space in the vertical dimension, we can add a dropdown feature, just like you already do for adjective inflection (e.g. in góður; by the way, I really like how the adjective templates look). Also, what with Wikipedia links and pictures (which both appear floating on the right, the right side can get cluttered, although the template comes out OK in many cases. The word viður has two dative singular forms, according to Orðabók Háskólans (actually, I am planning on changing the display format to við/viði). The notred template can easily be applied to my templates, and probably that is a good idea. – Krun 08:57, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah ok, I thought you did that to show that "viður" has an irregular declension or something.. but yeah the "við/viði" format is probably better. I don't really mind putting the declension table under a header but unlike the verb conjugation table and the adjective declension table it isn't that big (not in Icelandic or Latin, but maybe in Finnish) so the dropdown feature would be rather redundant since it doesn't take up that much space per se but it would still look silly to stretch it.. The Swedish inflection table only has 4 words and they are to the right, oh and on that point; would all the languages eventually have to standardise their tables? Like you showed in your links first the Icelandic, Faroese, Latin/Ancient Greek, Russian, Swedish and Lithuanian tables all have different forms. I actually don't like the Faroese one because it looks pretty plain, the green Latin form looks alright (except for the colour).. where should this be discussed? --BiT 12:02, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Also we need to make some sort of a template for Icelandic verbs to display (if it is a transitive verb) what case/cases the verb takes and the principal parts with an explanation whether it's a strong/weak declension. I actually don't like:

borða (+ Template:acc) (borðaði, borðað)

mostly since it has two parentheses and when the principal parts get more complicated it looks crammed. I would also want to find a way to add something like "first person singular preterite indicative" or something, it just takes so much space. English actually uses:

to eat (third-person singular simple present eats, present participle eating, simple past ate, past participle eaten)

and on that note should we add the infinitive marker, "að borða" to the Icelandic entries? Also where could we fit the Template:acc/Template:dative/Template:genitive stuff? There are 4 types of principal parts in Icelandic right? w:is:Kennimynd --BiT 12:21, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

New buttons

Welcome to sysophood. There are some help notes somewhere. I'm sure you can find them faster than I can. SemperBlotto 07:11, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. :) – Krun 13:13, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Category:Old Norse words needing attention

And it comes with a word, for free!!! -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 06:51, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Hanzi section

Hi Krun. I can see that you have restored the hanzi section which I had remove because I had made a adjective section with definition instead. The hanzi heading is more for "readings" where we don't (yet) have a fuller entry so please dont restore my edits. Kinamand 06:58, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

punktur

Sæll. Önnur merkingin sem að þú settir við punktur, það er að segja, point finnst mér svolítið skrítin. Maður segir kannski á ensku what's your point, en ekki hef ég orðið var við eitthvað álíka á íslensku. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 14:34, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Þessi notkun orðsins er vafalítið komin úr ensku, en finnst í íslensku. Gott dæmi um hana er „góður punktur hjá þér“. Krun 18:04, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Já, mér datt þetta ekki í hug. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 12:02, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

snew

Wouldn't this be Middle English and not English in its fully inflected form? 1066 and 1570 are the dates often taken as dividers for attestation, I think. We could certainly stand to have many thousand more Middle English entries. I might have read the old Webster references wrong, they presented snew as preterite of snow. If Chaucer is the citation, then it would seem to be Middle English. There is an on-line middle english dictionary you can read via google books. DCDuring TALK 00:52, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the verb snew (which is a separate verb, as also seen in the Webster entry, with the past snewed, originating from O.E. sniwan) was a parallel form to snow used well into the 17th century, and even later in the Yorkshire dialect. I have no doubt that this word (or some form of it) should be included here as Middle English, but it is also a part of (early and/or dialectal) modern English. That being said, the form snew is also an obsolete simple past form of snow (as blew of blow), and this is also illustrated by the citation for snow in the Online Etymology Dictionary. – Krun 01:05, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Glad I asked. Sorry I messed up the previous entry. Glad it stimulated entry improvement. We don't seem to have anyone who spends much time with Middle English. The OED seems a necessary resource for that. I keep on finding missing ME entries when I do etymologies. DCDuring TALK 12:02, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Template:infl

Ég bjó nú til Template:is-noun sem mér finnst virka betur en Template:infl, hvernig líst þér á það? --BiT 02:35, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Jú, ég hef notað það snið líka, einkum þegar ég set beyginguna inn þar. Kannski það sé betra að nota alltaf is-noun svo að það sé samræmi í kóðanum. – Krun 00:49, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Wanted entries

FYI, I think [[Wiktionary:Wanted entries]] is supposed to be primarily English words. Foreign-language words are of course welcome, but I don't think they should be the majority. —Ruakh_TALK 19:13, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

pėdės

Hi Krun,

You added [[pėdės]] to [[Wiktionary:Wanted entries]], but it seems to be an error. The correct Lithuanian word for (deprecated template usage) foot seems to be [[pėda]]. Am I wrong?

Thanks in advance,
—Ruakh_TALK 01:07, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Wanted-articles

I accidentaly reverted your change to it, not realizing that the term you removed was a blue link. It would be helpful if you could consistently use edit summaries so that doesn't happen again. Thanks, --Teh Rote 00:34, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Yep, I do sometimes forget those edit summaries :( – Krun 16:06, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Icelandic rhymes

Hi. I saw your edits at the Icelandic rhymes, they look good. Just a comment: it would be better to not add those "This page is incomplete - more entries are being added piecemeal." Firstly, because you are not obliged to complete every page (it would be difficult to say one page is finally completed; most rhyme lists are doomed to eternal updating). And, more important: when you do that in the middle of four line breaks, it leaves an ugly blank space. Daniel. 00:32, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that extra line break. Anyway, I got that text from the English rhyme pages (along with the rest of their format). I can see that it's not strictly necessary, so I'll just leave the line out in future. – Krun 12:05, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Rhymes:Icelandic is very wanted. (701 links) found on Special:WantedPages How about making it a blue link? Greets. Mutante 21:13, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

eitt orð á íslensku

Hej, Krun. Ég vilda skrifa orðsifjafræðina í cub ok eptir orðabók þeiri uppruninn er norrœnt kobbi, en ég leitaða þess orðs í Zoëga's orðabók úvænliga. Neyttask orðit í norrænu máli ok skal ég skrifa from Icelandic ella from Old Norse? Bogorm 22:58, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Finna má orðið í þessari orðabók. Það virðist ekki finnast í fornum handitum, en gæti þó hafa verið til í fornnorrænu talmáli. Skrifaðu from Old Norse (Icelandic) – Krun 00:32, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Ég bið yður að afsaka, en ég nennti ekki að vesenast við að skrifa svarið á fornmálinu, svo að það er bara á nútímaíslenzku.

Ek þakka yðr skýringina. Ek vænask batnaðinum mínnar kynningar íslensku ok norrænnu. Bogorm 16:57, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Quick question

Hi are you sure this edit was completely correct; i.e. is the word really ǣrlīce and not ǽrlīce? I don't speak Old English but I'm sure ǽ is used in it as I saw it in an entry somewhere on this site? 50 Xylophone Players talk 21:11, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

In old English, the macron (as on ǣ, ā, etc.) or the acute accent (as on ǽ, á, etc.) is used to indicate a long vowel. They mean the same; some sources use the macron, some the acute accent. So, this word might be written ǣrlīce or ǽrlíce (but not ǽrlīce). Here on Wiktionary, as on the Old English Wikipedia, the macron is the standard. – Krun 13:40, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

money-market fund

What is your evidence that the other is the more common spelling? COCA has 102 for this vs. 81 for the other. This is also more "correct" in the sense of less confusing, though "correctness" is not a very meaningful standard, only occasionally serving as a tie-breaker. DCDuring TALK 23:26, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, a Google search seemed to establish that, at least on the net, the unhyphenated spelling is more popular by a huge margin (looks like more than 90% of the total) and as for correctness, I would argue that the unhyphenated spelling is more logical and follows to usual way of forming and spelling compound nouns in modern English. It is a compound from money market and fund and the fact that the former is also a compound has no bearing; the hyphen (as it is not usual for money market on its own) is used because of the perception that money market is an adjective, which is unnecessary and more confusing, and to me simply wrong. This is, purely and simply, a compound noun in which one of two components itself consists of two components and is no more an adjective than money in money market or money fund, or baby in baby boom. – Krun 00:06, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

How do you do your Google search exactly? Web? Books? News? other? I've never been able to separate hyphenated from non-hyphenated forms on Google. Could I have that bit of your Google-fu? I've been forced to sample-count when doing this. BTW, I regularly write "baby-boom generation" but would be in the minority in so doing per COCA (80 vs. 173). DCDuring TALK 00:55, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

I did it via sample count, as you do. – Krun 10:52, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Serbo-Croatian

Please note that this does not meet CFI as the "language" has no ISO code (sh was properly deleted by ISO/SIL)

Please do NOT remove the valid CFI-meeting languages; your damage will all have to be un-done. Robert Ullmann 15:37, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Please see mine and Ivan Štambuk's comments at the Beer Parlour. – Krun 22:59, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Andras, Ápran, Antinis

Would you have time to check if these are OK? Alasdair cannot possibly know Faroese. There are secret declension tables.--Makaokalani 13:27, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

I've checked these and made some corrections. Ápran should be Ápram, and I've moved it there. – Krun 10:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

infl

where have you seen sc= blank? Robert Ullmann 00:31, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

It is so in e.g. Template:sh-noun, and I imagine it might be so in other derived templates. (Template:Xyzy could have been used there directly as well, but as I said, there might be other templates relying on the option of having the parameter blank.) – Krun 00:36, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

I've edited Template:sh-noun, so it doesn't call for a blank parameter anymore. – Krun 00:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

I think you got one case but not both? Anyway, as an internal template, it should be fixed in calling templates. (this isn't tru in general compiled programming, but in the template language and render-time interpretation, it is much better!) Robert Ullmann 00:56, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

southern[=nan] Min[river i/Fujian

-;)--史凡/Sven - Pl also use MSN/skype as I suffer RSI and so cannot type very well! 09:32, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Old Irish

Hi, I've started a draft guideline for how Old Irish should be treated at Wiktionary. Comments, suggestions, and additions to Wiktionary:About Old Irish are most welcome! —Angr 06:26, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Looks good so far. – Krun 09:16, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Index:Icelandic

Hi. The Icelandic index has recently been created, with links to all Icelandic lemmas in en.wiktionary. Can you check it (the alphabetical order especially) to see if it is correctly ordered. If there's a problem, tell me or Conrad (he is generating the lists) --Volants 13:21, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

decl temp

Check out how it looks now. Are the borders better, or would you still like to be rid of them? — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 19:55, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

I still think white borders are best. – Krun 20:01, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

White borders or no borders?? In some browsers, white borders appear, but in Opera (what I use) there are no borders at all when you use the drop-down box — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 20:06, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Definitely white border; anyway, I think that's what appears in my browser (Safari) with most of the other declension templates. It must have something to do with class="inflection-table". – Krun 20:53, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Nah, class="inflection-table" only makes the links appear black if you have it set to do that. I'll change the borders to white now :)— [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 20:56, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, that's much better. Too bad the Faroese templates don't use a base template for the table format as well. I shall have to go through them and change them. They could possibly even use the same base as the Icelandic ones. – Krun 11:24, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

þaðan

An IP created this today. Would you mind checking/formatting the entry? Thanks, L☺g☺maniac ☃ 19:11, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Done – Krun 20:51, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

skĭna

Hello,

On the page skina you have used the word "skĭne"/"skĭna" a couple of times, and claimed that it is Nynorsk. There's a problem with that: the letter "ĭ" is not used in Norwegian

Even if you correct "ĭ" to "i", you get the word skina, which means neither ‘small, thin plate’ nor ‘to run off because of mosquitoes’ as far as I know.

Regards, ;-) --Harald Khan Ճ 15:05, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Hello, Harald. I am well aware that ĭ (i with breve) is not part of the regular Norwegian orthography, but it is used here for clarification in the same way as it is in my source for the etymology. It simply denotes the Norwegian short i (IPA /ɪ/) as opposed to long i (IPA /iː/); that is to say, it is not /ʃiːna/, but /ʃɪna/. This is probably not a common word in all parts of Norway, and may even be fallen out of regular use entirely, but it is probably one that was collected by Ivar Aasen. – Krun 16:22, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Also the verb skjena (another form of skĭna also mentioned in the entry) may be found here. – Krun 16:28, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, "skjena" I've found. But if the word "skina" is only to be found in Aasen's Landsmål with those particual meanings, it would be incorrect to label it as Norwegian Nynorsk, which is a contemporary written standard. --Harald Khan Ճ 16:37, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, Landsmål, Høgnorsk, Riksmål, etc. are not entered separately here on Wiktionary; Norwegian is split here (where it is split at all) into what we term Bokmål (Dano-Norwegian, including Riksmål and all codifications of Bokmål) and Nynorsk (everything else; i.e. all the Norwegian dialects derived from Old West Norse and the standards based on them, including Landsmål, Høgnorsk and all forms of standard Nynorsk). – Krun 22:57, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

You still need to make a distinction, though. Saying that words like kvat or yver are Nynorsk without specifying further is directly misleading.. It's not impossible that skina can still mean ‘small, thin plate’ and that the online dictionary simply lacks an entry. I don't know; but for clear cut cases, a distinction is of course necessary. You might not put Landsmål words under their own heading, but it must of course be made clear that they are Landsmål and not modern Nynorsk. --Harald Khan Ճ 23:24, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Something like {{context|Landsmål}} or {{context|regional}} in the definition line would work nicely, I think. – Krun 09:51, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

User:Kąġi Oȟąko‎

... seems to be contributing in Scandinavian languages, needs to be taught formatting and templates and whatnot. L☺g☺maniac ☃ 16:28, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

tröllaukinn

Hi, Krun! Why did you erase the nominative declension of this word, as well as the other acceptions of the word? (NB: this is no aggressive question for me).

If this is easy for you, it's not for most of the users, whose native language is not Icelandic. When I created this article, I first looked at different similar ones, and tried to be as precise as possible — I even resisted to give the full declension paradigm…

Thanks forward for answering (you can do so in Icelandic, but I read somewhere it is not the English Wikipedia policy to write in another language…). Cheers. ৵ Kąġi Oȟąko ^Ƭ 11:44, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Only certain forms are to be included in the line where the word is mentioned (what we call the inflection line); in the case of Icelandic adjectives this is only masculine nominative (indefinite if applicable) in the positive, comparative and superlative. The rest can actually always be inferred with regular adjectives (the only exception I can think of is góður and mikill). Nevertheless, we aim to include all inflected forms in a table under the header “Inflection”. There are many adjectives for which this has not yet been done. There are some templates which make this easy, but the set is not yet complete. I have been working to make templates for nouns (see e.g. björn, bekkur, hola), but I haven't turned to adjectives yet, although some older templates exist which will eventually be replaced with better ones. – Krun 12:21, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

ǿ

Hi, why did you change from ǿ to œ? I was under the impression of that the former was more correct. --Harald Khan Ճ 13:02, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

They mean exactly the same thing. It is simply an established convention here to use œ (see grœnn, sœtr, hœna). Most dictionaries of Old Norse do (where they even differentiate between æ and œ); also e.g. ODS. I personally also prefer æ and œ over ę́ and ǿ. – Krun 14:33, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

I have no knowledge to debate further; but while we're at it, should þrongr be at þrǫngr, pehaps? It appears to me that they mean the same thing. --Harald Khan Ճ 15:20, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it should. I have now moved and expanded it. – Krun 19:14, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

What about sjálfr? My source lists up sjalfr, but are there two variants, perhaps? --Harald Khan Ճ 22:59, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes, sjalfr would be the more original form, and sjálfr a later development more or less specific to Iceland and the Faroes. – Krun 12:01, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

svartur köttur

Does this just mean a cat that's of a black color? If so, feel free to shoot on sight (IMO). Mglovesfun (talk) 09:40, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Í sambandi við sagnasniðin

Takk fyrir að fara yfir sniðin, en þrjár spurningar:

1. Af hverju breytirðu lýsingarhætti þátíðar í supine, í stað fyrir past participle?
2. Af hverju fjarlægðirðu nafnháttarmerkið? Ég fór aðeins eftir enska sniðinu sem skeytir því við allar sagnir.
3. Ertu ekki sammála því að nafnháttarmerkið sé ekki notað á undan núþálegu sögnunum munu og skulu, og að lýsingarháttur þátíðar þeirra sagna sé ekki til (sbr. wikipedia-greinin)?

takk enn og aftur fyrir að fara yfir --BiT 21:25, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Ekkert að þakka. Hér eru annars svör við spurningum þínum:

1. „Supine“ hefur verið notað til að þýða íslenska orðið „sagnbót“, en það mun vera rétt heiti þessa fyrirbæris, en þótt þetta sé upphaflega mynd af lýsingarhætti þátíðar (nánar tiltekið þolfall eintölu í hvorugkyni) beygist hún ekki í nútímamáli eftir kyni og tölu. Það væri villandi að mínu mati að tala um lýsingarhátt þátíðar og gefa svo upp (staðnaða) beygingarmynd hans í stað kk. nf. et. Þetta er hins vegar ekki mjög heppileg þýðing.
2. Ekki hefur verið venja að hafa nafnháttarmerkið með hér á ensku Wiktionary, nema einmitt í tilfelli enskra orða (veit ekki alveg hvers vegna, en sjálfsagt hefur það verið tíðrætt á spjallsíðunum hér einhvern tíma fyrir löngu). Það er ekki gert fyrir hin norðurlandamálin, né fyrir þýsku eða hollensku, og þykir mér það einnig eðlilegra, enda er nafnháttarmerkið ekki í neinu þessara mála notað í öllum tilfellum þar sem nafnháttur kemur fyrir (ekki einu sinni ensku).
3. Jú, vissulega er nafnháttarmerkið ekki notað með munu og skulu. Það er hins vegar ekki ástæða til að forrita eitthvað í kringum það þegar nafnháttarmerkið er ekki haft með í sniðinu. Lýsingarhættir þeirra eru ekki til (hvorki nt. né þt.), en það er fleira sem er ólíkt með þeim tveimur og hinum núþálegu sögnunum, eins og það að framsöguháttur þeirra (indicative) er ekki til heldur, en hann er tilgreindur í sniðinu! Ég breytti því bara greinunum munu og skulu þannig að þær nota ekki sniðið. – Krun 23:57, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Ég þekki þetta ekki nógu vel þannig ég treysti þér bara fyrir lýsingarhættinum. Ef þú hefur tíma þá væri líka frábært að fá hjálp við sniðin fyrir sterkar og veikar sagnir- annars geng ég í það á næstu dögum :) --BiT 02:40, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Upplýsingar um beygingu

Þá er loksins búið að klára sniðin :) spurning um að bæta við upplýsingum um beygingu sagnanna, þetta er t.d. gert í latínu í uppsláttarorðinu puella þar sem stendur "first declension" á eftir kenniföllum og í orðinu tangō stendur "third conjugation". Þar sem þú ert áhugamaður um japönsku þá stendur líka þar hvort sagnir séu t.d. ichidan-sagnir eins og 食べる, godan-sagnir eins og 買う eða óreglulegar sagnir eins og する. Hvernig litist þér á þetta?

Nokkrar hugmyndir hvernig væri hægt að gera þetta:

geisa (first person singular past indicative geisaði, supine geisað); weak verb

eða

geisa weak verb (first person singular past indicative geisaði, supine geisað)

eða eins og í japansku uppsláttarorðunum:

geisa (weak inflection/conjugation, first person singular past indicative geisaði, supine geisað)

--BiT 15:52, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Já, ekkert að því að bæta slíku inn. Hins vegar er spurning hvort þörf sé á að hafa fjögur snið; fyrst ekki er verið að gera flóknari hluti með aðgreiningu ætti þetta kannski frekar að vera aðeins eitt snið, is-verb, og fyrsta breytan þá beygingarflokkurinn (svipað og kynið fyrir is-noun). Þetta er gert fyrir japönsku, en þá er breytan „type“ notuð.

Svo er annað sem ég fór að hugsa um; ópersónulegar sagnir beygjast aðeins í þriðju persónu, en ef sniðin geta fyrstu persónu þarf sér snið (eða aukakóða) fyrir ópersónulegar sagnir. Hægt væri að geta einfaldlega þriðju persónu í staðinn, þar sem stofnsérhljóð er ætíð það sama og í fyrstu persónu, fh. þt. et. er alltaf nákvæmlega eins, o.s.frv. Einungis þyrfti að gæta að þriðju kennimynd sterkra sagna, sem þá fengi ekki -um, heldur -u. Þetta hefur verið gert á öðrum stöðum og virðist vera venjan með fornnorrænu. – Krun 18:22, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Ég velti því líka fyrir mér hvort það væri betra að sameina þetta undir einu sniði sem tekur inn type= færibreytu en fannst þetta skýrara svona og auðveldara að skrifa (þ.e. "{{is-verb-weak|{{{1}}}|{{{2}}}}}" í staðin fyrir "{{is-verb|{{{1}}}|{{{2}}}|type=weak}}") en það er ekkert heilagt.

Annars veit ég lítið sem ekkert um kennimyndir ópersónulegra sagna þannig að það þýðir ekki að ræða um það við mig. Hvaða tillögu líst þér annars best á? --BiT 21:08, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Ég var nú meira að hugsa um {{is-verb|weak|geisaði|geisað}}. Ég hugsa að sennilega væri þægilegast að nota þriðju persónu almennt í kennimyndirnar (þá t.d. bera, bar, báru, borið; rigna, rigndi, rignt). – Krun 22:05, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Held að ég sé samt hrifnari að hafa sem fæstar færibreytur. Það væri reyndar eitt mögulegt, það er dálítið viðsjárvert en það væri hægt að gera lítinn kóða sem athugar "er fyrsta færi breytan ri eða preterite? ef svo er ekki, eru 2 eða 3 færibreytur? Ef bara tvær færibreytur þá veik sögn, annars sterk sögn."

Ertu að tala um að nota þriðju persónu fyrir allar sagnir? Hvað um greinina? --BiT 01:09, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Já, einmitt, þriðju persónu fyrir allar. Það gildir hvort eð er einu hvort er notað, þar sem formin eru nákvæmlega eins fyrir utan -m aukalega í þriðju kennimynd þegar fyrsta persóna er notuð. Margar orðabækur forðast vandann með því að geta ekki persónunnar (ef t.d. stendur segja, sagði, sagt er ekki augljóst hvort átt er við fyrstu eða þriðju persónu vegna þess að formin eru eins, eins og áður sagði; þriðja kennimynd sterkra sagna er það eina sem gefur persónuna til kynna, og hún kemur ekki fyrir nema sögnin beygist persónulega). – Krun 10:08, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Áhrifssagnir

Væri sniðugt að búa til flokka fyrir áhrifssagnir eftir því í hvaða aukafalli andlagið er.. s.s. hvaða falli þær stýra? Ég var einmitt að búa til flokkana [[Category:Icelandic intransitive verbs]] og [[Category:Icelandic transitive verbs]] þá væri hægt að búa til flokk eins og:

• "Category:Icelandic verbs that take/govern the accusative": fyrir sjá <konu>
• "Category:Icelandic verbs that take/govern the dative": fyrir sagnir eins og henda <sverðinu>
• "Category:Icelandic verbs that take/govern the genitive" fyrir kenna <áhrifa>

Síðar væri jafnvel hægt að taka þetta lengra með því að flokka tveggja andlaga sagnir eins og kenna einhverjum eitthvað og gefa einhverjum eitthvað sem "Category:Icelandic ditransitive verbs that take/govern the dative and accusative". --BiT 06:24, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Já, þessi flokkun gæti vel komið að gagni, sérstaklega fyrir þá sem eru að læra málið eða rannsaka það. Spurningin er bara hvernig við merkjum og flokkum þessi mismunandi andlög. Margar þeirra eru notaðar með ýmsum hætti; henda getur t.a.m. einnig haft stakt þolfallsandlag, bæði persónulega (í merk. „grípa“) og ópersónulega (í merk. „koma fyrir“), kenna getur einngi stýrt þolfalli og þágufalli, sjá getur einnig stýrt þágufalli (t.d. hún sá mér fyrir mat og húsnæði). – Krun 10:17, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Ég hef alla vegana haft það þannig að ef orð tekur mismunandi aukaföll eftir merkingum þá bæti ég "(with <aukafall sem merking tekur>)" fyrir framan hverja merkingu fyrir sig. Væru þá ekki sum orð einfaldlega tvíflokkuð? Ákvað líka að tala við þig um þetta þar sem ég leitaði í "Categories" og fann ekki nein önnur tungumál sem flokka sagnir eftir hvaða föllum þær stýra. Ætti að innlima þetta í sagnasniðið? --BiT 14:14, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

(snögg spurning, hvað með sagnir sem eru bæði áhrifssagnir og áhrifslausar með eiginlega sömu merkingu? t.d. ákveða getur bæði verið notuð sem áhrifssögn með þolfalli ákveða þetta og áhrifslaus sögn hann ákvað að fara; þá sérstaklega sagnir eins og (deprecated template usage) biðja sem geta verið áhrifslausar ég bað, áhrifssagnir ég bað þig og tveggja andlaga sagnir ég bað þig einhvers, hvernig í ósköpunum er þetta sett upp?) --BiT 14:23, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Ég held að það sé einmitt réttara sem þú hefur gert upp á síðkastið, þ.e. að setja þetta við hverja merkingu, því að þetta getur verið mjög mismunandi fyrir sömu sögn. Við skulum ekki vera að flækja sagnasniðið með því að hafa andlög þar í; það hefði takmarkað notagildi og væri mikið vesen. Tvö andlög saman eru venjulegast þf. og þgf., en þar sem er þf. og ef. er yfirleitt hægt að umorða hið síðara með forsetningu („biðja e-n um e-ð“ í stað „biðja e-n e-s“); þá er spurning hvernig ætti að setja það upp, já. Við þyrftum að prófa okkur áfram með það. Það eru svosem engin vandræði með áhrif/áhrifsleysi sagnarinnar biðja, þar eru merkingarnar „ask“ og „pray“ aðskildar, en fyrrnefnt vandamál þó til staðar. Ákveða er ekki síður áhrifssögn í setningunni „hann ákvað að fara“; „að fara“ er einfaldlega andlagið (nafnháttur er einn fallhátta sagna og getur því staðið sem frumlag, andlag eða viðurlag). Sumar áhrifssagnir geta hinsvegar staðið andlagslausar og er þá andlagið merkingarlega eitthvað óskilgreint eða augljóst (t.d. „þú eldar í kvöld“, „þú verður að kveðja áður en þú ferð“). Þær er hægt að merkja „ambitransitive“. Það hefur verið gert töluvert t.d. fyrir serbókróatísku. – Krun 20:24, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Já ambitransitive gæti virkað- dictionary.com skiptir þessu upp sem "used with object" og "used without object" og nokkrar skilgreiningar sagnarinnar read hér á Wiktionary eru merktar sem "transitive or intransitive", veit ekki hvernig ætti að leysa þetta. Hvað ætti annars að nefna flokka fyrir sagnir eftir hvaða falli þær stýra? Ætti að kalla þær Icelandic verbs that govern the accusative, Icelandic verbs that take the accusative, Icelandic verbs that govern the accusative case eða Icelandic verbs that take the accusative case eða eitthvað annað? --BiT 22:08, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Já, ég held líka að ambitransitive sé betra en transitive or intransitive, m.a. vegna þess að það er styttra, og upplýsingar um föllin taka líka pláss. Ég veit ekki með þessa flokkun samt. Kannski við ættum að geyma það bara, kannski þar til komið er eitthvað magn af sögnum sem eru merktar á viðunandi hátt. – Krun 22:18, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

About ð

The Pedia says /ð/ is devoiced in the word final position, but I notice you changed eruð and borð already said /ð/. Is pedia wrong, or is it a conditional thing, or...? — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 17:36, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Oh, you might also wanna check hvað. — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 17:45, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

The final ð may be devoiced, yes, but so may all other voiced consonants except nasals. However, this is by no means universal, and furthermore may only occur at the end of an utterance or before a pause (e.g. for emphasis), or before words that begin with certain unvoiced consonants. The devoicing is also often only partial. It is therefore advisable to stick to the voiced consonant in this context. On the other hand, the first part of compounds may have a fixed, complete final devoicing e.g. hafsjór (/hafsjouːr/), from haf /haːv/ (in which the /v/ is never fully devoiced, but often partly) + /sjouːr/). – Krun 00:05, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

According to wikipedia, the nasals, r and l can all be devoiced. — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 01:59, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

I meant just in this context (non-doubled consonant at the end of a word). At least, I cannot hear a distinctive devoicing of nasals in this position (perhaps something like 5-10% devoicing, which might also occur in other normally voiced positions and is not perceived as such). – Krun 08:38, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

is-conj-w2

I don't think there is any real advantage to using templates with names that make them difficult to identify, or make them all require 3 parameters when normal verbs can use one. If you look at is-conj-weak-ar-aði, you'll see that I included options for u-mutations that you can see used on tala. I haven't done that for these -ir verbs yet because I have yet to find any that need it. — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 16:23, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the late response. The name is not particularly difficult, but it may as well be called is-conj-weak2 if you insist on fewer abbreviations. The naming scheme is similar to what I've already been using for nouns; e.g., is-decl-noun-f-w2 is a template for feminine nouns of the second weak class. I'm simply using the traditional classification that you should be able to easily find in grammar books. All the templates have seperate parameters, at least: 1. for the first part of the word before the main stem vowel, 2. for the main stem vowel, 3. for the rest of the stem. The template needs the stem ending as a seperate parameter to be able to take into account assimilations and other regular, predictable mutations in the conjugation: rðt>rt, ðð>dd, ndt>nt, etc. This template replaces is-conj-weak-ðir-ddi-tt, is-conj-weak-ir-ði-t, and several others that you would have needed to create, since you don't use any conditionals, and actually makes things simpler. Sure, you have to do d|æ|m instead of dæm, but you don't have to choose from as many templates. – Krun 15:27, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

In my less-than-humble opinion, having more templates that are very simple to use is preferable to having one template that is excessively complex in use and coding. — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 17:18, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

It is not complex in usage; as I explained, it is even simpler. As for the coding, even that is not so complex; there are only two different (not very) big switches that are being repeated over and over again, and that could, and probably should, be simplified by using an extra tier of templates (something like is-conj-weak, which would be a sort of intermediary between is-conj and is-conj-w1/2/3/4). That way, each switch would appear only once in is-conj-w2. – Krun 18:38, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

It's still going to need directions for usage on the talk page. — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 19:08, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it definitely does. I'm going to have to make a proper grammatical appendix that will be linked from there. I don't know when I'll have the time for that though. I've been putting off doing these conjugation templates for ages, and I'm not finished with the noun templates yet, either. Then there's adjectives, too. —[sigh]— Oh, well, it'll be done some time. There are always some small bits and pieces being finished. I really owe you one for pushing me into this now. I guess I'll be on to the rest of the weak verbs soon. There are only four classes and six slightly irregular ones (and you've already created a template for one of them, vilja). – Krun 19:24, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

I'll get the rest if you can tell me which they are - I've been having a hard time finding a list. — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 19:31, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

The rest are: kaupa (keypti, keypt), meina (meinti, meint, but meina, meinar in the present tense; this verb is also conjugated according to the fourth class: meinaði, meinað, in different senses), sækja (sótti, sótt), þykja (þótti, þótt) yrkja (orti, ort, but also according to the second class: yrkti, yrkt, but in different senses). – Krun 19:39, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Missing Serbo-Croatian words

Yeah I'm aware of the semantic fields requiring attention and thorough cleanup. Most of the words I add are from corpora index on the basis of the frequency of occurrence. The big remaining issue is with languages and nominal color names which we here currently treat as "nouns" but are in fact pure adjectives undergoing adjectival declension. hrvatski is in fact hrvatski jezik without final jezik. I've created a bunch o these "XXX jezik" a while back but these are pure SoP and ought to be deleted. Similarly crna is a shorter form of crna boja, not a full-blown noun per se. I am thinking of using context labels, e.g. for language adjectives in the definition lines:

1. (masculine, as a noun) the XXX language

But I'm still not sure...There is the same problem with country names (in -ska, in fact shorter forms of "XXXska država"), but given that these are proper nouns with capital initial letter, they don't overlap in spelling with normal adjectives so there is no collision. I've also read a paper a few years ago where one linguists argues that these are actually separate inflectional paradigms and should be recognized as such, but this hasn't really caught on, at least not in the recent grammar books I've read. --Ivan Štambuk 15:28, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, it's the same in Icelandic with colours - they only exist as adjectives. But adjectives can generally be used substantively, and that is quite different from creating a noun from them, because a noun would decline differently and take a definite article differently. There is a very similar issue also with language names in Faroese, where the neuter gender of the adjective is used (being the same gender as the noun mál “language”). I think your solution is good, but perhaps it should rather say (masculine, used substantively). These cases would benefit from some sort of standard explanation in the Usage notes section (perhaps one for colours and one for languages; these could be templates). I would suggest we leave the issue of -ska country names for now, as (like you noted) they won't interfere with anything else, being capitalised. When this has been changed we can just hurry and delete the SoP entries and hey presto, problem solved. – Krun 17:00, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Oh, one thing, about numerals. Entries often have “Numeral” as the POS header, but, as you know, numbers are either adjectives or nouns. We have tisuća and hiljada marked as nouns; shouldn't jedan, etc., just be under “Adjective”? – Krun 17:07, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Your proposal seems fine. I'll research a bit more on the issue to see whether there are some other classes of nouns being nominalized adjectives by origin which are covered by this problem. The most comprehensive grammar book I have (published on uz-trans, in case you missed it) touches this topic only briefly (§ 478, § 869). Usage notes explanation should be transcluded by means of a template.

As for the numerals: well the PoS header ==Numeral== (or ==Number== as I've seen it oftentimes used instead) is more of a semantically defined term, rather than being a fully grammaticalized category. Numerals 1-4 (and also 21-24, 31-34 etc.) inflect like adjectives, while others are uninflected. Numerals for 100 (stotina), 1000 (tisuća, hiljada), billion (milijarda), etc. inflect like nouns. And there are different sets of issues with ordinal numbers, collective numbers etc. I'd personally have no problems formatting them either way. What I've seen across various languages on Wiktionary, is that there is hardly any kind of standard scheme for numbers, and that the formatting varies significantly across languages according to the editors' preference. My preference would be to use generic ==Numeral== coupled with usage notes on the inflectional pattern. I still need to engage into a thorough treatment of numbers, it's on my TODO list, but it's a significant amount of focused work requiring preparation, which is a bit discouraging. --Ivan Štambuk 17:39, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Template:pl-decl-noun

Why did you change it? Maro 16:50, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Mostly to conform to other declension tables, most importantly Slavic ones; see e.g. most and мост. The color scheme should probably be standardized as well (gray is being used at present for Czech and Icelandic, blue for most Slavic languages, green for Hungarian, etc.). This is of course open for discussion, but you must agree that a uniform look would be desirable, whatever exactly that look will be. – Krun 22:12, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

I agree with Krun’s changes. So did Kasjanek21. The table looks much prettier now and conforms with other Slavic templates. --Vahagn Petrosyan 01:00, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

macia como bumbum de nenê

Hello. Why did you remove the translation "macia como bumbum de nenê" from the entry soft as a baby's bottom? --Daniel. 18:08, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Because the established policy is not to include any inflected forms in translation tables, only in the terms' own entry. – Krun 21:09, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Can you please inform where you found this "established policy"? That is, in which policy page, discussion room, etc. ---Daniel. 19:37, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

I don't remember where this was discussed, but I do remember it being discussed that only the main form would be included in translation tables. In the case of PT adjectives we would only include macio, rather than macio m, macia f...and then potentially also macios m pl, macias f pl. — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 19:46, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

It has been discussed, but I don't think there was any consensus. Since inflected entries just lead right back to the lemma form with (often) no other information, I just find them clutterish in translation tables, especially forms as long as this. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:28, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

nonstandard inflected form entry

Hmm, we do have a {{nonstandard}} tag you know. Do these all need to be speedy deleted without discussion? I'm not saying they don't, just that I don't know. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:18, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

They get in the way of orphaning obsolete declension templates and are otherwise being a nuisance. They are nonstandard in including an inflection table, and in not mentioning in the definition lines which inflected forms they are. I can't really be bothered now to create proper ones, but they should be created en masse later. – Krun 12:23, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Suits me ok. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:26, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Wade-Giles

Is this Japanese entry really incorrect? -- you reverted it: ja:ウェード式 --达伟 11:34, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

It's just that interwiki links on Wiktionary are meant to be for the exact same spelling (in this case that would be ja:Wade-Giles, an entry which, when created, will give the definition or translation of this English word in Japanese). This is contrary to Wikipedia practice, where the names in each language would be linked together. – Krun 11:40, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

OK thanks. So I could create a translation section on Wade-Giles and then place the Jpn. Wiktionary link there...--达伟 12:20, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

I just created a translation section in Wade-Giles. There you can see that the template {{t}} automatically includes a link to the word's entry on the Japanese Wiktionary as well as here. Also take a look at our article for the Japanese term and see how direct interwiki links in the sidebar are used. – Krun 13:23, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!--达伟 09:05, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

lifandi

Does this word mean a person who is alive or the adjective alive? Thanks, Razorflame 22:44, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Both, actually. The adjective sense just hasn't been added yet. – Krun 22:48, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Dan Polansky's reply to you on my talk page

I don't want to have this on my talk page because it is directed towards you, so I'm moving it here: (posted by Razorflame)

If you, Krun, do not care about keeping and breaking promises, that is your choice. It is certainly not my choice. I have posted this breach of promise here only after Razorflame insisted on my talk page that he can change, and that I am adamant, stubborn, rude, with an unhealthy attitude, an attitude that Wiktinary does not need right now--these are his words, just check the conversation on my talk page. He whines on my talk page that I should trust him again, and few days later, he breaks his new promise again. I care to document this breach, if you allow. He has told me: "You should be acting like: Ok, you keep the promise for two weeks and we can help each other again. I don't see why you can't have that kind of attitude when that kind of attitude is exactly what this Wiktionary needs right now." After that, I feel entitled to post a plain notice to Razorflame's talk page that specifies shortly what happened, to make misbehavior traceable. --Dan Polansky 06:18, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

There is a lot of his conduct that I don't like either. That includes his whining and his promises, and such hasty comments as he has flung back at other users. That does, however, not give said users any valid excuse for doing the same and worse. If you can't trust Razorflame, that's your personal issue. If you care about the languages he's editing, you should just patrol his contributions, then. I'm already going through them, expanding his Serbo-Croatian entries, etc. You could also patrol entries needing attention, since he has taken to tagging his “skeleton” entries for attention. I certainly don't trust all content from every user on Wiktionary. That's why I check entries, and that's how Wiktionary becomes a good dictionary. Quite a lot of our high quality entries started off as this sort of skeleton, or even as a complete mess. We should just deal with it. – Krun 09:40, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Question

Who created those inflection forms that you just deleted? Razorflame 08:09, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

SPQRobin created them. Why? – Krun 08:10, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Thought I made them :/ Razorflame 08:16, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Question

fyrir ofan What does that mean in Icelandic? Thanks, Razorflame 09:39, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

It means above. – Krun 09:40, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Just a preposition, right? Does it need the accusative/dative added to it? Razorflame 09:41, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it is a preposition. It governs the accusative only. – Krun 09:43, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

ambulantan and ambulantni

Hi there Krun. One thing that you could have done instead of deleting ambulantan is to have moved it to ambulantni and then restored the revision that was deleted. That way, you preserve the history of both entries, as well as correct the situation too :) Everyone is happy and the Wiktionary gets more correct :) Razorflame 22:45, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi. There wasn't really any more information in ambulantan, the two were basically copies, so no point. Cheers. – Krun 22:52, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Ok. Glad to hear it :) Razorflame 01:01, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Why have you done this [4]? Please, tell me your source. About this one [5]: please, don't delete other users' entries. I don't know for Serbo-Croatian, but when giving opinion about Croatian, please, at least compare with Hrvatski jezični portal. "Ophodna" for "orbitalna postaja"? Tell that to Štambuk :))) Serbs using "ophodnja" for "patrola"? Serbs using "časnik"? Or even "časnica"? Krun, do you know the difference between "ophođenje" and "ophodnja"? Krun, you're making a mess.
If you want to add entries for so-called Serbo-Croatian, OK, your choice. It's not my maternal language, so I'm not messing there. But, please, don't delete entries for other languages. This is not Croatian, nor Serbian nor anybody's POV.
Former Yugoslavia had lines in four languages in the banknote's of SFR Yugoslavia: [6] (in Serbian, in Croatian, in Slovenian and in Macedonian): "dvadeset hiljada dinara", "dvadeset tisuća dinara"....).
Be careful. Those mistakes aren't innocent, it can be very dangerous. Serbs feel some of those words as serious provocation: e.g. if you refer to military officer with "časniče"; "ophodnja" is also very provocative. Especially if you go in Serbia and use those words - many Serbs'll feel ofended and that you intentionally provoke them.
Have in mind that someone reads Wiktionary and blindly believes to everything he/she reads here. Why 'll you get that person into serious troubles, if you can stop that from the very beginning? Kubura 03:10, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Krun's edit was correct, ophodni indeed meas "orbital". It can also mean "patrolling", but chiefly in Croatian usage. Most of such "Croatian words" are easily attested in Serbian/Bosniak usage, especially in the speech/writing of Bosnia and Herzegovina where Croatian media exert lots of influence. Please Kubura spare us of "Serbs use this" and "Serbs don't like that" sermons - that spells spreading ethnic hatred/intolerance in my vocabulary and continuing so would get you blocked. --Ivan Štambuk 11:20, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

The difference in that banknote titles of yours is in the words hiljada and tisuća in dvadeset hiljada dinara vs. dvadeset tisuća dinara, both of which are used by both Serbs and Croats for centuries. See Citations:hiljada and Citations:тисућа if you don't believe so. On the other hand, what are the odds that two so "different" languages share 3 inflectional endings and a syntactical construct (possessive genitive) in one such phrase...hmmm, hmmm :) --Ivan Štambuk 11:26, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Krun

Why this [7]?
Colleague Štambuk told me that I can add Croatian entries, if I don't delete "Serbo-Croatian" [8]. Kubura 03:41, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Well, you shouldn't have performed a simple undo, since you reintroduced wrong information, e.g. the indefinite form *ophodan is not to be found in the Serbo-Croatian dictionaries I have access to (e.g. Hrvatski jezični portal). The same goes for your definition, “the patrolling one”. First of all, such grammatical constructs are not appropriate for a definition, especially since it excludes other grammatically possible uses of the word (a better wording for your definition would be “of or related patrol; patrolling”, or something like that). However, regardless of the wording, this definition is, again, not to be found in other dictionaries. The definition “orbital” is found in HJP and in the Rečnik srpskohrvatskoga književnog jezika, and is furthermore the only definition. I can see that the other definition is likely, but without any source on it it is difficult to include.

Your Croatian entries are very welcome, but please do not be offended by the fact that when I clean up, expand (and correct) your entries, I also change the name to Serbo-Croatian. That does not mean it is not Croatian. Serbo-Croatian includes Croatian. I know there has in the past been a lot of confusion with the term “Serbo-Croatian”, but here on Wiktionary, it simply means “Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, and/or Montenegrin”, including Ijekavian (found among Croats, Bosniaks and Serbs (and Montenegrins)), Ekavian (found among Serbs and Croats, probably some Bosniaks as well) and Ikavian (found among Bosniaks and Croats), and including the primary idiom (Neoštokavian standards) as well as dialects (Neoštokavian variants, Old Štokavian, Čakavian, Kajkavian, etc.). If you insist, you can have a separate Croatian section as well, since there is no official policy for Serbo-Croatian and its national standards on Wiktionary. I personally just do not see any particular usefulness for such a separate Croatian section. However you choose to do, I hope it will help us together make Wiktionary a truly great dictionary. Good luck with all your editing. Regards, Krun 11:43, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

dauðr

In my Norwegian dictionary, the etymology for "daude", meaning 'death', lists up both dauði and dauðr. Does that mean that 'dauðr' could also be a noun? Do you happen to know anything about this? Thanks in advance, --Harald Khan Ճ 15:36, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Dauði is definitely the main word in Old Norse; ODS (Ordbog over det danske sprog) also mentions the noun dauðr, but marks it as rare. Cleasby/Vigfusson mention the noun dauðr as conjectured based on the phrase „til dauðs“ (genitive), and only a handful of possible other instances (look under DAUÐI here). This strong noun is probably the ancestor of Danish/Norwegian død, Swedish död, although it would at least be mixed up with the weak version, since Danish has the construction til døde (<til dauða). Old Danish seems to have had both (døth, døthæ) and Old Swedish also had both (döþer, döþe). In short, yeah, it existed, but was very rare in (recorded) Old (West) Norse. – Krun 18:42, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Sweet, thank you for your detailed reply. It would perhaps deserve a mention in the entry here? (if anyone knowledgeable feel that they could be bothered, that is ;-)) While talking about ancestors; I thought that perhaps Nynorsk daude could come from an earlier form dauder (which again would stem from ON dauðr), or something like that; and not necessarily being a typical conversion from ON i to modern Norwegian e. I think there are few examples of this in modern standard Norwegian; and at least in the dialects we got many (ON -r --> MNO -er --> NO -e; e.g. ON kemr, MNO(?)/Nynorsk kjemer and dialectal/w:landsmål kjeme). --Harald Khan Ճ 20:10, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

bestar

Hi. Please can you add Icelandic to bestar --Rising Sun talk? contributions 09:51, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Recent is edits

Just thought I'd let you know that there have been a bunch of Icelandic edits of late. I've been marking them as patrolled, as they're not obvious vandalism, but it would be good if you could look over them at your leisure, to ensure they're also accurate. Thanks. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 02:11, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

It's okay, but thanks for letting me know. – Krun 07:01, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

allt fint

Anonymous editor says this is a misspelling of allt fínt. Can you delete it if this is the case, please? Mglovesfun (talk) 11:39, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Correct. Now deleted, and allt fínt cleaned up. – Krun 12:13, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Requested entries (Icelandic)

Sæll,

ég fór að læra íslensku, en það eru sum orð til sem ég finn ekki í orðabókum. Þá bætti ég þeim við í síðunni beðinna bókanir. Ég yrði mjög þakklátur ef þú gætir fylgst með henni og svarað mér annað slagið.

Bestu kveðjur, Wisapi 22:53, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

remonstrative

Hello Krun -- Nice catch!. Thanks for cleaning up after me. I'm getting bleary and sloppy in my advanced years. -- Ghost of WikiPedant 18:13, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

No problem. We must all hope the little errors we introduce here and there will be caught eventually. – Krun 18:54, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

circa

Note my change here reflects standard Mandarin translation formatting. Cheers. ---> Tooironic 13:13, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Wow, I didn't even think about it although I knew about this. I'd probably notice if I'd added the translation myself, though. Thanks for catching this. There ought to be a bot for this sort of thing… – Krun 15:43, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Concerning norms

Hi Krun!

My name is Robbie_SWE and I'm an administrator at the Romanian Wiktionary. I've noticed that you have tried to have a discussion with WernescU concerning his contributions.

We have had problems with WernescU back in the Romanian project as well, problems that I have brought to the attention of Opiaterein who has vowed to keep an eye on him. It seems that WernescU doesn't listen to anyone, let alone people who try to communicate with him in his native tongue (God knows I've tried). In the Romanian Wiktionary we use the old orthography and when I discovered that he was adding duplicates here I tried to redirect them, but it's hard to keep up with him.

He is not going to succumb to the norms and this is one of the reasons why he left the Romanian Wiktionary in the first place (he also persisted on adding words that don’t exist thus causing irritation amongst the other users).

Let me know if he keeps disrespecting your requests. I'll have a word with him if it's needed.

PS: I also suspect that he doesn't speak very good English, so he might not understand you.

Best Regards,

--Robbie SWE 20:22, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

hors (Serbian)

From English horse (“heroin”) I suppose. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:09, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Indeed. – Krun 12:23, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

cheesable

What does cheesing mean in this case? --Mat200 23:15, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Cheese is gaming slang for tactics which exploit a vulnerability inherent in the game to defeat an opponent. This has begotten a corresponding verb and derived words such as cheeser and cheesable. – Krun 23:26, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Could I trouble you to add a definition to those pages? --Mat200 23:55, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Icelandic verb form -m

94.101.2.145 (talk) has added "m" to the ?first-person plural past indicative? of many Icelandic verbs, for example velta (ultu → ultum). He or she has also changed Template:is-verb-strong. In many cases, you were the one who added the verb forms, and added to the template; can you check and see if 94.101.2.145's edits are vandalism, or correct? I am also asking User talk:BiT. - -sche 08:38, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

I saw your edit, was 94.101.2.145 (talk)'s change incorrect? See my discussion for my response --BiT 11:01, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

As I briefly touched upon in #Upplýsingar um beygingu (last comments), I think it is better to use third person than first. It is by no means universal to use the first person forms as principal parts. The third person forms are used a lot, especially in older and foreign (non-Icelandic) sources (and also e.g. in the Icelandic-English dictionary on Snara.is), although use of the first person has become prevalent in Iceland. The first and third person singular past is always identical, and all the indicative plural past forms always have the same stem vowel. The reason it is better to use the third person is that it can consistently be used for all verbs, also verbs that are only used impersonally. For these verbs, first person forms do not exist. It is also consistent with the customary treatment of Old Norse and Old English. – Krun 16:00, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Fine. Let's stick to that and add your justification to the template to avoid similar incidents. --BiT 17:07, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Rhymes

If possible, could you not start rhymes with *: but rather just *. I find it distracting to have a 'step ladder' effect in pronunciation sections. NB this is not policy, it's a personal request, based on a Grease Pit discussion where nobody really commented. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:54, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Actually, I prefer the indentation. Rhymes and homophones follow a specific pronunciation, and variations are not necessarily the same between homophones or rhymes. See lágur and hver. – Krun 10:14, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Grease pit#Bot-generated lists for Icelandic

Hi Krun,

Did you still want these? I'm happy to try to help, but I don't know enough about what our Icelandic entries look like. If you can give a fairly objective, simple-minded description of what I should search for, I'll do so . . .

—Ruakh_TALK
03:38, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

I've replied at the Grease Pit. – Krun 10:10, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Bot-generated lists for Icelandic

I ran that request, the results are here. I also wrote about it here. - [The]DaveRoss 01:26, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

"rm non-standard form entries"

Why? --Yair rand 09:45, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Because listing them all would be like listening ==British English== and ==Continental Portuguese== for every entry. — [ R·I·C ] Laurent — 12:37, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

No, removing these is like removing terms that are only in British English or Continental Portuguese and leaving no entry at all, as far as I can tell. --Yair rand 12:39, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Then you can't tell very far, unfortunately. Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian were all used before, probably for fear of irritating the hyperpolitical if "Serbo-Croatian" was used anywhere. But someone adding one almost never added all three. They're all one language, with pretty minor regional differences. Such regional differences are marked. — [ R·I·C ] Laurent — 12:49, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

I'm confused. You do know that I was referring to edits where sections were removed and no Serbo-Croatian section was left, right? --Yair rand 12:53, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

I didn't see Krun do that, and you didn't say it explicitly, and one word messages don't say much, so no. I only saw sections removed where there was already SC. But then I don't stalk most users' contributions, so yeah. — [ R·I·C ] Laurent — 12:59, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

• Yair rand probably referred to edits such as these, and not to usual sh-ification. The thing is that Serbo-Croatian has 7 cases, and sibilanti is not simply "plural form of sibilant, it's "nominative plural of sibilant" and also "vocative plural of sibilant". The template {{plural of}} is restricted for languages that don' have cases (and other markers like definiteness..). Regardless, there is no damage done in removing them since they can be reached from the usual search box, due to the fact that SC nouns have declension listed as full words, and not template-generated. --Ivan Štambuk 13:01, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

  Searching sibilanti does not give any indication that it is a Serbo-Croatian word without the entry there, and even if it did, it's still a word, so it needs an entry, like all form-ofs in all other languages. --Yair rand 13:24, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't see Ivan being convinced of that :D Anyway, if we're going to have SC form-of entries, we should make them right. They can be bot-uploaded eventually, we don't need random form-of entries now. — [ R·I·C ] Laurent — 13:40, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Inflected forms don't need entries on their own. The only reason why we add them is because MediaWiki is such an lexicographically-unsuitable piece of software. All the information on them is already encoded in the inflection tables of the lemma entries. What needs to be done is to have MediaWiki 1) expand templates first 2) collect inflected forms marked with e.g. special tags and index them to the respective lemma. This shouldn't be too hard even in the primitive language such as PHP. These statically-generated bot-uploaded inflected-form entries as useless junk wasting database space and Internet traffic. But we add them anyway because we don't want the French to beat us :P They add a false set of accomplishment, beside acting like a psychologically rewarding "score" system subliminally forcing people to create many obscure low-quality entries instead of focusing on the thoroughness of treatment of the important existing ones.

Of course that simply searching for sibilanti won't work if the entry already exists (another bug - the inability to search for some particular content if there exists a page with the same name). You need to manually add e.g. Serbo-Croatian. --Ivan Štambuk 14:02, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Form-of entries can be very useful for pronunciation sections, especially for stuff like Lithuanian and its crazy stress paradigms. — [ R·I·C ] Laurent — 14:54, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Hm, I guess you guys just answered for me… Yes, the reason I delete these is that I am trying to clean up the remaining Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian sections. These form-of entries didn't provide much useful information of their own and would have needed considerable work – the exact format for SC form-ofs would have to be figured out, and once that has been done, such entries could be massively generated by bot. The existing form-of entries are well under a hundred in total, compared with the tens of thousands which could be generated automatically, once the format's been figured out. That said, I really would support a way for us to get around the need for these (in any language here). It would be so much better to just have language-specific search by word form. I also make complex entries for Icelandic, and have long avoided making many form-of entries because it just messes long, complex language sections up so much. – Krun 22:20, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

I'd prefer to wikify them rather than outright delete them; but there is a precedent. I've seen SemperBlotto delete Latin entries to allow SemperBlottoBot to readd them with better content. The difference being, SemperBlottoBot adds back the definitions within minutes, if not within seconds. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:22, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Not always. There are some that remain blank. Anyway, it'd be better to wait for SerboCroatian. I was able to add pronunciation sections to Lithuanian bot-uploads, and also for Esperanto and Romanian. This could possibly done for SerboCroatian, possibly. I'd say so, if it can be done for Lithuanian. — [ R·I·C ] Laurent — 01:12, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

User:Mglovesfun/to do/uncategorized Serbo-Croatian

I don't suppose you fancy finishing of the remaining 31 (down from about 600 at the start). I'm slowing going insane due to copy-and-paste overload. --Mglovesfun (talk) 10:48, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Done. – Krun 15:06, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you! --Mglovesfun (talk) 15:21, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you!

I really appreciate that you are checking the Proto-Germanic entries. It's hard to find proper resources on Icelandic and especially Faroese, so it's good to have someone who helps! —CodeCat 16:26, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

No problem. As to resources, you should check out the online Faroese dictionary. It's pretty comprehensive. Although it may be difficult for you to understand the text, at least you can check the existence of a word (or correctness of spelling) and inflections. For Icelandic, there is a nice aggregate site, http://snara.is/ , which includes the main Icelandic dictionary (Íslensk orðabók) as well as numerous others (e.g. a dictionary of idioms and various translation dictionary, among them English-Icelandic and Icelandic-English; none of the translation dictionaries are very good, but they are somewhat useful nonetheless) plus a historical/etymological dictionary of Icelandic personal names, an encyclopedia of famous modern Icelanders, a searcheable map of Iceland, and even a couple of cookbooks. It requires a subscription (ISK 4680 ≈ EUR 28,50 for a year or ISK 8520 ≈ EUR 52 for two years), but I think it's well worth it. Of course, there's always the Germanic Lexicon Project, which includes a 19th century dictionary of Icelandic (mostly Old Icelandic), which is a bit outdated, but I still use it a lot. The only real etymological dictionary is the one by Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. It is not available in digital form (and probably won't be until it's out of copyright), but it is available in print here. – Krun 17:03, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Dutch entries

I see that you created autocraat. Really appreciated. Here are some of the templates we use to create Dutch entries that you might be interested in for next time (so I don't have to fix your formatting :D) User:Jamesjiao/Dutch templates. Jamesjiao → ^{T ◊ C} 02:21, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Duplicate sections

Do you have a list of Serbo-Croatian entries which also have Bosnian, Serbian and/or Croatian entries on the same page? Now there are no uncategorized entries (touch wood) such a list should be relatively easy to come up with; though I'm not sure how to do it. It should be possible using Microsoft Excel to put all the entries in four columns and check which entries match. --Mglovesfun (talk) 12:01, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

There's really no need. I'm just working my way through all Croatian nouns, etc., whether or not they have a Serbo-Croatian section or not. – Krun 12:43, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Icelandic word classes

I've began to create some Icelandic inflection templates on the nn: wikt, and wondered whether there existed somewhere a decent overview of the different classes of nouns and adjectives that existed. In the Faroese dictionary linked to above, there are codes such as h3 and k6 used to indicate which class a noun belongs to - has someone made a similar overview for Icelandic? The Icelandic page linked to above provides inflection, but not codes.
A related question: does {{is-decl-noun-n-s}} cover other 'classes' than ö in plural, no ö in plural and no ö in plural but j in some föll? Njardarlogar 10:55, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

You can find a description of the classes in Íslenskt mál, volume II →ISBN; for all three volumes →ISBN, although there are errors in it and it doesn't cover quite everything. The system used there is a traditional one which may be used for both Old Norse and Icelandic, and it is this system that I use for my templates here. You may of course copy my templates to the Nynorsk Wiktionary. I don't think I've quite finished making templates for all the irregular nouns, and there may be some eventualities (not mentioned in the book) that I have not addressed yet.

The template you mention covers all strong neuter nouns. There are several phenomena which may occur within the class: no vowel change (gos); a>ö (barn); aCaC > öCuC ; VCaC > VC[u/ö] (meðal); lacking -i in dat. sing. ; -i in stem which disappears in dat. and gen. pl. (kerti), or turns into -j- (merki); gen. s. -s assimilated (vax); secondary vowel dropped (veður, gaman), etc. – Krun 16:44, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. I now feel more tempted to simply copy the templates here; though we'll see. Njardarlogar 12:23, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Deleting Bosnian categories

Could you please only delete categories that are empty? I'm trying to clean up the wanted categories but that's harder if I have to keep making sure not to recreate the categories you deleted. —CodeCat 13:06, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Category:Serbian letters

Hi, if you can clear this category, this is the last of the Serbian categories, and all the Bosnian categories are now clear, leaving only the remaining Croatian ones (albeit, quite a lot of them). --Mglovesfun (talk) 11:22, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Will do! But there is also Category:Serbian abbreviations; perhaps I'll do those as well. – Krun 13:31, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

The remaining entries in that and Category:Serbian prepositions are all single letters. They seem to have Serbian and Serbo-Croatian sections with non-identical content, which means I can't merge them apart from 'blindly' by guesswork. See also my most recent Beer Parlour thread on SC. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:05, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Hjálmtýr

Hej Kristján!

Jag ville bara göra dig uppmärksam på att du verkar ha glömt att ändra lite information på uppslaget Hjálmtýr. MVH Diupwijk 23:16, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Hej. Vilken information har jag glömt att ändra? Jag förstår inte vad du menar… – Krun 23:20, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Uttalet är väl inte rätt? Det är detsamma som för Hjálmar. Diupwijk 23:23, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

*facepalm* Nu måste det erkännas att jag bara är blivit för trött. Tack så mycket och god natt! – Krun 23:26, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

byrja

Hej igen! Allt väl?

Jag undrar lite över uttalet av byrja: skall det verkligen inledas med ett s-ljud? Vänligen Diupwijk 11:20, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Hej. Nej, det skulle väl inte ha haft ett s i uttalet. Nu korrigerat. – Krun 13:38, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Tack så hjärtligt! Diupwijk 16:18, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

tones for apelovati and garantovati

They're the same actually, tnx. How did you know the tone for garantovati? --BiblbroX дискашн 18:49, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

From the Rečnik srpskohrvatskoga književnog jezika (Matica srpska and Matica hrvatska, 1967). – Krun (talk) 19:32, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Is there an electronic version you could spare? Or at least an online version? --BiblbroX дискашн 19:54, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Please? --BiblbroX дискашн 21:08, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

You'll find it if you just search for it on Google: [9]. Also, I thought I already sent you an email about that. Didn't you get it? – Krun (talk) 22:23, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry bout that email. It came to my mind checking inbox but I've fallen as a victim of praxis witnessed here on wikt and didn't want to become disappointed when finding out that there's no message waiting for me. It's actually because I rarely use smtp. Thanx for your trouble. On my way to sort my yahoo account. Cheers, --BiblbroX дискашн 14:19, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Never taken the chance to thank you for the link. Sorry about that, I just forgot. Anyway thanks a lot. --BiblbroX дискашн 20:32, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

No problem. Happy editing! :) – Krun (talk) 22:13, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Scheving

I just noticed you added that name and I wonder if it could be related in any way to the Old English name Scefing that appears in the introduction to Beowulf? —CodeCat 12:01, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

That certainly seems possible. The Icelandic name most likely comes from Low German, from some merchant family. – Krun (talk) 12:15, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Icelandic noun forms

Hi, I'm cleaning up existing Icelandic noun form entries to use {{is-inflection of}}. I've come a across a problematic case though (problematic due to lack of content provided). I fixed the format at (deprecated template usage) lóða (Etym 3) but since I don't know a lot about Icelandic could you confirm that the inflection specified is correct? Also, can you add the appropriate declension template to the lemma entry? Thanks. :) 50 Xylophone Players talk 02:31, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Same problems at (deprecated template usage) húfur (Etym 2) as well. 50 Xylophone Players talk 02:46, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Seems alright. I've added all the inflections. – Krun (talk) 11:09, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. :) Also, (deprecated template usage) jóna need conjugation in etym 1 and declension in etym 2 Here are some more that I found during my clean up:

same attention required as above

• (deprecated template usage) kampur
• (deprecated template usage) brúður (etym 2)
• (deprecated template usage) evrur
• (deprecated template usage) klóna
• (deprecated template usage) raðar
• (deprecated template usage) nágranna
• (deprecated template usage) skó
• (deprecated template usage) tanki
• (deprecated template usage) tvennur
• (deprecated template usage) þrennur

missing gender, lemma is a redlink

• (deprecated template usage) býfur
• (deprecated template usage) dalla
• (deprecated template usage) epli
• (deprecated template usage) fífur
• (deprecated template usage) geimfari (etym 2)
• (deprecated template usage) pífur
• (deprecated template usage) skífur
• (deprecated template usage) tívar

missing gender, lemma entry lacks noun sense

• (deprecated template usage) drífa
• (deprecated template usage) dýfur
• (deprecated template usage) kippur (etym 2, lemma entry has no Icelandic)
• (deprecated template usage) merkur (no Icelandic in lemma)
• (deprecated template usage) vestra (no Icelandic in lemma)

just declension needed

• (deprecated template usage) kúnni
• (deprecated template usage) lunda
• (deprecated template usage) lita
• (deprecated template usage) samför

There's no rush I guess of course but I just said I'd list out all the problems/incomplete entries I found. 50 Xylophone Players talk 15:34, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

(deprecated template usage) sölt

Hi, could you check the Tbot adjective entry here? :) I came across it when adding noun forms. 50 Xylophone Players talk 15:34, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Could you also fix (deprecated template usage) öld? The declension just recently added seems wrong according to the Icelandic wikt. If it's not too much trouble, could you also try writing documentation for the Icelandic declension templates when you have some time? It really would make them easier to use; as an example, I couldn't quite figure out to fix this entry myself. 50 Xylophone Players talk 03:17, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

tölt

Hi. Can you add some Icelandic touches to the tölt page, please? Does tölt have other meanings apart for the horse gait? --I love ponies (talk) 11:44, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Proto-Germanic Appendix: language orders

Hi - for consistency, Swedish is always listed before Danish in order of descent from Old Norse; the full list of languages, in order, is found here http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:About_Proto-Germanic --Proto-Germanic Fan (talk) 02:33, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

I hadn't noticed that page before; thanks for pointing that out. – Krun (talk) 12:36, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

References

When you add references, like at *klainiz, could you add <ref> tags in the appropriate places in the entry (like on Wikipedia), so that it's clear exactly which part of the entry is referenced? Thank you. —CodeCat 10:25, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

afturbatapíka

Hi, could you check the pronunciation for this? We also need citations for it, for FWOTD, so if happen to know of any that would be great. Thank you. —CodeCat 23:04, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

More FWOTD requests: could you please translate at least one of the citations at afturbatapíka? Also, could you please cite and add a pronunciation section to jökulhlaup? Dank je —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:53, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

skeel#Etymology

Do you know anything about this? TIA --Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 02:18, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Why, certainly. I have edited the etymology accordingly. – Krun (talk) 19:51, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

谢谢！ --Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 01:54, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi there, thanks for helping expand my Icelandic entries. I'm only learning the lingo at the moment even though I've added quite a few words here so it's good to get a native speaker tidying up and especially adding the pronunciations (the books don't teach you how to pronounce the words, which is really annoying!). Cheers, BigDom (t • c) 21:02, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

No problem. Keep up the good work! :D – Krun (talk) 21:04, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Template:term

Why were you shocked at a change that was supported by everyone except you? Pretty much every Wiktionarian has voiced their opinion on the discussion page by now - how much more participation do you want? -- Liliana • 20:25, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

The only reason I noticed this to begin with is your change to the template. Five or ten people is not “everyone”. It has long been practiced here to use curly quotes and apostrophes for presentation, while using straight ones for page titles. This has never been explicitly required, as far as I know, nor has it been universally applied, but it has certainly been done in some of the more prominent pages and templates that use them (like {{term}}). This has always seemed a no-brainer to me: straight apostrophes in page titles make pages easier to find and curly ones in the actual page text make for a nicer, more professional look. In any case, this is an ideal that (some) people have been striving for here before I even arrived, and seems to be the norm, at least on non-stub pages. To decide a (new) policy on it is something I think should be discussed in a more prominient place (Beer Parlor), so that people can actually notice the discussion and take part in it. – Krun (talk) 23:20, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Template:lr

When linking to reconstructed terms, can you use this instead of {{lx}} from now on? Thank you. —CodeCat 17:58, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. – Krun (talk) 17:59, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

veik beyging, sterk beyging

Are these idioms? The Icelandic past-participle-declension tables link to them. I'm not sure if the entries should be created, or the links corrected.

Thanks in advance!
—Ruakh_TALK 05:34, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

They are certainly common collocations, but I would say they are SOP, the same as English phrases like strong declension or weak conjugation. By all means remove the links from the templates; I’ve never liked them. – Krun (talk) 12:42, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! So then, could you create the Icelandic entries for veik and sterk (or whatever the lemmata are)? —Ruakh_TALK 17:09, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Those would be veikur and sterkur. – Krun (talk) 19:25, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Perfect, thanks! I've updated the templates. —Ruakh_TALK 21:48, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

I think that they are missing grammatical senses. If I read "veik beyging" with the current definitions at veikur, I arrive at something that seems like a declension that is less strong, pliant, or sick, which makes little sense in this case. —CodeCat 21:50, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Grammatical senses have now been added. – Krun (talk) 10:16, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

is weak verbs

Hi there. Do you know any way to get the conjugation tables for weak verbs where the stem vowel changes? For example, I just created kremja and can't work out how to get the right conjugation to show. Cheers, BigDom (t • c) 22:28, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Sorry about that, but I simply haven’t created the templates for those yet. I’ll make them some day, along with the strong verb templates, but I don’t know when I’ll have the time. Nice work with the Icelandic entries, by the way. Are you living in Iceland? – Krun (talk) 10:26, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

No problem, I'd help out but think it would be beyond my capabilities with templates. Thanks, but no, I'm living in England but I'd love to come to Iceland one day. BigDom (t • c) 16:19, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

*aurī

How do you know that this is an ī/jō stem and not a normal jō stem? —CodeCat 02:16, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

I confess that I do not know, but aurî (= *aurī) is the form given by Torp. I see now that Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon in his Orðsifjabók gives *auriō (= *aurijō). What should we do if we cannot know which it is? – Krun (talk) 07:36, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Historical kana usage

I just saw your edit comment on this edit. Shogakukan's Kokugo Dai Jiten lists historical kana spellings in most entries that have them, and they use the small ゎ, small っ, and ゃゅょ. Do you have a source showing that these weren't used? -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 22:53, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:ja-kanji_reading

Going through and cleaning things up following discussions among other JA editors, where the rough consensus emerged that we should stick to the L3/L4 headers of Kanji and the POSes. I reworked しかり and removed a number of kanji that appear to be exceedingly rare and archaic / obsolete alternates for more established spellings. I then started working on にゃく and wondered where these came from -- /njV/ is not a common phoneme in Japanese to start with, so I was surprised to see such a list of characters. Looking at the history showed me that you'd created this page some time back; I presume from a data dump of some other source? If EDICT / KANJIDIC, I've run across the occasional mistake in their corpus, and numerous examples of characters listed with a reading that is vanishingly rare, off into "someone once used this as an ateji for XX" territory.

Do you have any strong feelings about how to handle such rare / archaic / obsolete readings? My sense is to get rid of them unless they can be shown as citable, but I don't quite know how best to go about finding citations of really rare uses, short of trawling through a dead-tree Japanese library. At the bare minimum, my sense is that rare or unusual readings should at least be marked as such, to avoid misleading users. What's your opinion? -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 22:30, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

I believe these have usually been aggregated from the reading data on pages for individual kanji. Personally, I feel that these are useful; it is my understanding and experience that readings are a very important way to find characters; also very rare characters, or rare readings of common characters, especially as part of archaic words which cannot be found as a whole in many dictionaries. Reading listings on hiragana pages should ideally work very similarly to form of entries, but instead of referring back to a POS entry spelled with kanji, they refer back to the ===Kanji=== section for individual characters. Many readings (chiefly on-readings) are not used as individual words, only word parts; they nonetheless have a meaning and are useful for look-up. – Krun (talk) 21:30, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

• If it's from Kanjidic, then, but nowhere else I can find, I'll mark it as rare. Part of my concern is that we don't adopt an "anything goes" approach to what kanji readings are allowed -- in large part due to the activities of one or two very troublesome anons.  :(   Mind you, I don't think that's what you're advocating; I just want clear guidelines. My thought too is to reduce editing load and confusion -- if a character is listed with reading X in, say, Kanjidic but nowhere else, I'm fine including that reading with a qualifier, but given the additional maintenance overhead and potential for user confusion, I don't know that it makes sense to add that kanji spelling to the entry with that reading -- unless we can cite it. Does that work for you? -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 22:46, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

vredeti/vrediti

Back in 2009 I created Ekavian form of vrijediti as vredeti, but you moved the Cyrillic spelling to vrediti and rectified the entry [10]. (with vrijediti still having Ekavian form listed as vredeti though) However, Zabadu under IP address complains that the proper Ekavian infinitive form is vredeti, which quick google search confirms. vrediti seems to have some usage but it appears to be improperly reanalyzed on the basis of present stem vred-i-. Do you remember whether you saw vrediti in one of the dictionaries? --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 16:58, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

I’m not sure. If I looked it up, it must have been in the Rečnik srpskohrvatskoga književnog jezika. I may have just assumed *vrě̄diti > vrijediti / vrediti, but what is it really, then? Is it perhaps *vrě̄děti > vrijedjeti > vrijediti through some sort of dissimilation? – Krun (talk) 18:41, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

According to RSHKJ the proper form is indeed vredeti. I think that the error occurred due to a mistake in the original entry [11] (linking to vrediti but displaying vredeti). I've relocated the entry. Cheers. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 01:55, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

JA entries 色々

Two things just came to my attention:

1. Your recent change to {{ja-kanji}}, while generally something I can support, now looks super-funny because of how inconsistent it is with all the other headlines for other languages. Perhaps we should look into having everyone adopt larger headword sizes?
2. Straight links using [[straight brackets]] don't add any linguistic information to the resulting HTML. Meanwhile, templates like {{l}} do add such information. This can be a usability issue for anyone using a screen reader or other technology. Examples:

''[[訓読み#Japanese|kun’yomi]]''

produces:

<i><a href="/wiki/%E8%A8%93%E8%AA%AD%E3%81%BF#Japanese" title="">kun’yomi</a></i>

No linguistic information means that any tech parsing this page won't recognize that kun'yomi here is Japanese.

{{l|ja|sc=Latn|訓読み|''kun'yomi''}}

produces:

<span class="Latn" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja" style=""><a href="/wiki/%E8%A8%93%E8%AA%AD%E3%81%BF#Japanese" title=""><i>kun'yomi</i></a></span>

Note the lang attribute. (Unfortunately, also the xml:lang attribute, which we shouldn't have anymore as it's apparently been deprecated (or even outright removed?) in HTML5, but which thankfully doesn't seem to do anything bad.)

If you changed this because you're seeing odd fonts on your end, that depends on your browser and how it's set up with regard to languages and fonts. On Chrome, get the Advanced Font Settings extension and you can configure this. On Firefox, click Tools > Options, select the Content tab, click Advanced in the Fonts & Colors section, and select the font in the top dropdown and the fonts below that.

HTH, -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 17:30, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Inflection Tables in Wiktionary

Hi!

Sorry to be a nuisance, but could you point me to a help page regarding inserting inflection-tables in Wiktionary. For instance, the code for the Icelandic word björn seems to be just:

"\{\{is-decl-noun-m-s3|b|ja|rn|u=u\}\}" (Backslashes added.)

How does this work - for nouns, verbs etc. A pointer to a help page would be enough if it exists? All the best 85.220.22.139 18:52, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Hello.

The inflection tables are slightly different for each language. I made the current ones being used for Icelandic, but I haven’t gotten around to making a help page yet. In fact, I haven’t even made templates for all the inflection categories. It’s a lot of work, and this is all a work in progress. I can make a brief summary for you.

All the templates follow traditional Icelandic grammatical categories. The nouns are divided first by gender, then by whether they are strong or weak (in weak nouns all cases in the singular end in the vowels -a, -i or -u), and then by numbered categories. The noun categories are as follows:

• m-s1 for masculine nouns ending in -ar in nominative plural and -s or -ar in genitive singular. The most straightforward example of this is words like hundur; but the template also covers words with an elided secondary vowel like böðull, humar, etc., words with a stem ending in -i, but losing the -i before plural endings, like læknir. It also allows for u-mutation if the stem vowel is -a-, as in garður, kaðall, etc.
• m-s2 for masculine nouns ending in -ir in nominative plural and -s or -jar in genitive singular. Words like hvalur, hylur, lækur
• m-s3 for masculine nouns ending in -ir in nominative plural and -ar in genitive singular. Includes words like hugur, siður, viður, litur, but also words ending in -aður/-uður, like söfnuður, and u-stem nouns (using the parameter u=u) like björn, vörður, etc. (these u-stem nouns have u-mutation in the nominative and accusative singular, as well as in the dative plural like all nouns do, and they furthermore have i-mutation in the dative singular and nominative and accusative plural).
• m-w1 for masculine nouns ending in -i with a plural in -ar, like skóli, hjólbarði, etc.
• m-w1a – declension identical to m-w1, but nominative in -a, like herra, séra
• m-w2 for masculine nouns ending in -i with a plural in -ur with i-mutation, e.g. lesandi, bóndi
• f-s1 for strong feminine nouns with plural -ar (or -r in those ending in á or ú), like vél, á, nál, trú, Gerður, ermi
• f-s2 for strong feminine nouns with plural -ir, like sál, kvöl, deild
• f-s3 for strong feminine nouns with plural -ur/-r with i-mutation, like bók, fló, kýr
• f-w1 for feminine nouns ending in -a with plural -ur (with u-mutation), like nunna, mamma
• f-w2 for feminine nouns ending in -i in all cases in the singular, with plural in -ir or -ar (the latter is indicated with the parameter ar=ar), like lygi, beiðni
• n-s for strong neuter nouns; these have -s in the genitive singular, and a nominative plural marked only by u-mutation, e.g. barn, þil
• n-w for weak neuter nouns; these end in -a in all cases in the singular and take a -u plural, e.g. auga

All of these have the stem inserted in three or five parts: the principal stem vowel is the second parameter, whatever letters precede it are the first parameter, and the rest of the stem is the third. When there is a secondary stem vowel, this is parameter 4, and then parameter 3 contains whatever is between the vowels and parameter 5 the rest of the stem. Sometimes extra parameters must be used, as explained above. Also the dative ending -i is somewhat arbitrarily present in strong masculine nouns (of all three classes). Its presence must be indicated with the parameter i, which can have the values i, -i, or i-, which means -i/-inum, -Ø/-inum, and -i/-num, respectively (indefinite and definite forms shown on either side of the slash). I can’t give you any more detailed info now, but you can take a look at the linked entries to check out the template usage. Maybe I’ll have time to explain the verb and adjective templates later. Good luck; I hope this helps. – Krun (talk) 22:55, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm Icelandic myself and am, among other things, interested in grammar and linguistics. Well, my own language is the one I know best, so I thought it could be worthwhile to learn the semantics of the templates to add inflections, where I see none, and am in the mood to add something. Bestu kveðjur 85.220.22.139 16:09, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

PS: I just looked at hvalur. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark there. All the best 85.220.22.139

Sorry, I was too hasty. I was looking at the Faroese declension. But still, the dative singular in Icelandic should be given as hvalur/hvali. Both varieties occur. Best of wishes. 85.220.22.139 16:18, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Another PS: I'm sorry for this flood of questions, but shouldn't it be possible to include the archaic forms of the masculine u-stems, where they can occur, mostly in fixed expressions, for instance á ýmsa vegu etc? All the best 85.220.22.139 16:27, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Enn eitt péessið. Ég skráði mig inn sem notandinn, sem birtist á eftir. Ég nota þetta nafn lítið og er raunar nokkurn veginn hættur að skipta mér af Wikipedíunni sem slíkri. Mig langar hins vegar að hafa áreiðanlega málmyndafræði íslesku á einum stað. Þar get ég a.m.k. lagt eitthvað af mörkum - ég finn orð, þar sem beygingu vantar og set hana inn. En þú hefur rétt fyrir þér - það er svo mikið af undantekningum og afbrigðilegum beygingum í íslensku, að sniðmátin verða geysimörg. Talsvert vantar af lýsingarorðum, og hvað sterkar sagnir varðar, svo tekið sé dæmi, má vissulega flokka þær eftir hljóðskiptum, en stundum verða undantekningar næstum jafnmargar og sagnirnar sjálfar. Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 16:47, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Hvað varðar sól og sál þá mun algengast vera, að eignarfall fleirtölu sé sólna og sálna, sbr. sálnaflakk. Skýringin á þessu er líklega, að veikar og sterkar myndir hafi verið til, og þær eru enn til, hvað sálina snertir, og að veika eignarfallsennið hafi smitast í sterku orðin. Orðið sála er a.m.k. til, það sver ég við sálu mína, það veit sála mín o.s.frv. Kær kveðja Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 17:41, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Rétt ein athugasemd, og svo læt ég þig í friði. Ég var að svipast um eftir "setningarfræði" sniðmáta og rakst á þannig greint sem lýsingarorð. Þetta er atviksorð. Atviksorð ættu raunar heima í þessum sniðmátum, þar eð þau stigbreytast eftir ýmsum reglum og sum eru óregluleg. En ég sá líka, hvert ógnarerfiði þessar töflur hafa verið. Ég man ekki í svipinn eftir jafnmörgum slaufusvigum í röð og hvað sviga almennt varðar lítur þetta út eins og LISP. Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 18:09, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

[reset indentation]

I assume you mean hval/hvali for the dative; that can be done, but I am not so sure it should. I think it might be better that we omit rare or erroneous/proscribed variants from the main declension table. We can still note these in a comment below. That allows us to further specify their status and context. I think we needn’t change the template or introduce a new class for such variants, as long as the regular form exists as well. You can see what I have done with vegur, where I have added the forms vegs and vegu in a comment below the declension table. Svo að ég skipti nú yfir í íslenskuna, þá væri ég mjög feginn að fá einn í lið með mér í þetta víðfeðma verkefni. Athugaðu að þú getur meira að segja bætt við orðum með beygingu án þess að setja inn merkingu þess (ef það er erfitt, t.d.); þá seturðu bara {{rfdef|lang=is}} í staðinn fyrir merkinguna (sjá snæri), og einhver annar (eða þú sjálfur) getur bætt henni við seinna. Það væri auðvitað frábært að koma inn sem flestum orðum og beygingardæmum. Hvað varðar þannig, þá er það útfrá nútímalegri greiningaraðferðum ýmist atviks- eða lýsingarorð, eftir því í hvaða setningarsamhengi það er, t.d. ég vinn ekki þannig (atviksorð), en þannig mál er erfitt að leysa (lýsingarorð). Sjá einnig BÍN. – Krun (talk) 18:20, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Rétt hjá þér, þannig getur verið lýsingarorð og atviksorð. Við, sem lásum Björn Guðfinnson á sínum tíma, erum bara vön að líta á þannig sem atviksorð. Hins vegar þarf svo sem engin ný fræði til að greina orðið sem óbeygjanlegt lýsingarorð. "Gamaldags" bækur, sem fjalla um setningafræði, segja í aðalatriðum, að lýsingarorð kveði á um fallorð og atviksorð um sagnir og svo er þessu háttað hér. Það var aðeins máttur vanans, sem fékk mig til að koma með þessa athugasemd, en ég er hér með leiðréttur. :-) Hins vegar sýnist mér óþarft að búa til beygingasniðmát fyrir allsendis óbeygjanleg orð. Það dugir að segja, að orð beygist ekki, og þar með höfum við það. Hvalur/hvali stafaði einfaldlega af athyglisbresti við innslátt.

Gott og vel, þá er flest komið á hreint. Ég mæðist raunar í mörgu um þessar mundir, svo að framlag mitt, ef eitthvert, verður stopult. Það væri samt ágætt að fá leiðbeiningar um, hvernig maður setur upp sniðmát. Vissulega má lesa eitthvað úr kóðanum, en þetta kraðak af slaufusvigum gerir manni býsna erfitt að ráða í hann. Fyrst þú kannt þetta, þá gætirðu e.t.v. sett saman stuttar leiðbeiningar. Ég hef þegar nefnt sterkar sagnir. Tvöföldunarsagnirnar að ganga og hanga þurfa t.d. hvor sitt sniðmátið, þótt þær sé annars í sama flokki. Hvorugt er nú til. Og ef eitthvað er missagt í fræðum þessum, er væntanlega um að kenna innsláttarvillum. :-) Kær kveðja Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 16:32, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

PS: Hvaðan hafa menn almennt frumgermanskar og indó-evrópskar rætur? Ég á nokkurt safn af þessu, frá Pokorny til Mallorys og Ringes, og sýnist sitt hverjum. Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 16:35, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Enn eitt péssið og svo er ég hættur í bili. Ef þú svarar mér, mætti það gjarnan vera á notandasíðu minni, sem er fremur tómleg sem stendur. Ég sé þá strax, hvort einhverjar fréttir eru. Annars finnst mér Wikipedían sjálf hafa stirðnað í skrifræði. Ef til vill var það nauðsynlegt, en gamanið er horfið. Í Wiktionary er hins vegar aðeins um að ræða staðreyndir, sem ekki er líklegt að standi styr um. Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 16:48, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Ég laug. Hér kemur eitt péess til. Ég bætti við íslenska hlutann í greininni um viðskeytið -a og bjó til færslu um íslensku í greininni um -um - enginn orðaleikur ætlaður. :-) Þetta var bara tilraunastarfsemi, en er þetta viðunandi sem fyrsta skref? Þetta er þar með komið á blað, og alltaf má bæta við. Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 17:27, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Bætti við "placeholder" fyrir endinguna -ur, sem þyrfti að taka vandlega fyrir. Kær kveðja Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 17:57, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Spurning, sem mætti svara

Sæll! Ég bjó til sniðmát fyrir orðið altari með hliðsjón af öðrum. Þetta kemur rétt út í sandkassanum mínum. Hvernig ber ég mig að við að setja það inn á sniðmátalistann (þ.e. Icelandic Neuter Nouns)? Hafi maður smíðað eitt, gætu önnur fylgt. Svo að þú vitir meira um mig, þá læri ég ekki neins konar hugvísindi í háskóla, þótt ég hafi verið jafnvígur á allt í menntaskóla og áhugi á tungumálum og sumum öðrum hugvísindum hefur fylgt mér alla tíð. Kær kveðja Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 19:39, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Já, ég skil, þú meinar að þú hafir sett inn beyginguna með sniðmátinu non-decl-noun. Tæknilega séð á aðeins að nota það fyrir fornnorrænuna, en þetta virkar svosem nokkurn veginn. Ég hugsa að altari þurfi sitt eigið sniðmát. Ég skal búa það til fljótlega. – Krun (talk) 23:57, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Ég bjó til sérstakt sniðmát fyrir altari: {{is-decl-noun-altari}}, og búinn að koma því í notkun á síðunni um altari. – Krun (talk) 14:24, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Takk fyrir það. En fleirtalan ölturu ætti líklega að vera á undan. Ég þekki engan ómálhaltan, sem notar fleirtöluna altari. Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 19:22, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Ég vona þá að þú teljir mig ekki málhaltan, því að ég hef aðeins tilfinningu fyrir myndinni altari! – Krun (talk) 19:37, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Úps! Hvernig stendur á því? Málhaltur ertu varla. :-) En ég hef aldrei heyrt altari notað sem fleirtölu - svona þegar ég hugsa um þetta, hvorki af málhöltum né öðrum. Þetta er að vísu ekki orð sem kemur oft upp í samræðum. Íslensk orðabók gefur aðeins upp ft. ölturu. Stafsetningarorðabókin er því miður stödd á vinnustaðnum, en ég held, að ölturu verði að teljast réttari, hvaða skilning, sem menn annars leggja í það orð. Við snögga uppflettingu reynast Kress og Stefán Einarsson a.m.k. sammála mér, þótt gamlir séu þeir vissulega. Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 20:08, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

http://bin.arnastofnun.is/ er auk þess sammála. Á Árnastofnun ekki að eiga síðasta orðið - nógu frjálslega fer hún með ýmislegt annað? Hve lengi hefurðu búið úti, ef ég má spyrja? Beztu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 20:13, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Stafsetningarorðabókin gefur upp hvort tveggja í fleirtölu. Þetta orð er heldur óíslenskt að forminu til, enda tökuorð. Þarna togast á tvær reglur eða mynstur í máltilfinningu manna: annars vegar eiga hvorugkynsorð með -i í stofni að vera eins í eintölu og fleirtölu, en hins vegar á ekki að geta verið a í nf./þf. ft. hvorugkynsorða. Það er því ekkert skrýtið að fleirtalan sé á reiki. Hún hefur líka verið það lengi. Dæmi úr ritmálssafni Árnastofnunar sýna myndirnar altari [alltare] og ölturi [øllture] (báðar frá 16. öld) og svo ölturu (frá 18. öld). Ónáttúran í þessu orði er náttúrulega sú að ekki á að geta verið -i í stofni án i-hljóðvarps. Varðandi beygingarlýsinguna hjá Árnastofnun, þá vantar ýmislegt þangað inn, og þar sem fleirtölunnar altari er ekki getið í Íslenskri orðabók kemur það mér ekkert á óvart að hana vanti í BÍN. Það gæti samt verið snúið að bæta þessu inn, því að kerfið á BÍN er svolítið erfitt. Ég er nú einmitt að fara að vinna við BÍN í sumar, svo að e.t.v. get ég komið þeirri lagfæringu til leiðar. Hér úti hef ég búið síðan um haustið 2009, en með hléum þó, því að ég hef verið á Íslandi á sumrin og dágóðan hluta vetrar 2011-12. Svo hefur annars verið svo mikið af Íslendingum hérna úti að þetta er eins og hálfgerð nýlenda. – Krun (talk) 20:45, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Ég tók mér það bessaleyfi að snúa ölturunum við. Fleirtalan altari særir máltilfinninguna ógurlega. Þetta eru að vísu hártoganir, en ég vona, að þú takir þetta ekki illa upp. En nú fer að líða að lokum 69. afmælisdags lýðveldisins og ég verð víst að búa mig undir vinnuvikuna, sem verður raunar 4 dagar að þessu sinni - blessunarlega. Ég slysaðist til að heyra hluta af ávarpi Sigmundar Davíðs. Ræðan var ekki slæm, þannig lagað, en að breyttu breytanda hafði maður heyrt þetta allt áður. :-) Góða nótt Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 21:48, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Svona sem verkefni

Sæll! Ég er eflaust farinn að reyna á þolinmæði þína, og ég biðst afsökunar. Samt sem áður datt mér í hug verkefni, sem væri prýðileg æfing, þ.e. að búa til mát fyrir karlkynsorð, sem enda á -all, -ill, -ull og -ann, -inn, -unn, þótt ekki komi þetta allt fyrir í töluðu máli. Til þess þyrfti ég örlitla tilsögn. Það, sem ég hef fundið dugir ekki til. Þú gætir e.t.v. bent mér á eitthvað sambærilegt. Ég væri þakklátur og ef við horfum fram á veginn, létti þetta af þér. Hins vegar verð ég að viðurkenna, að ég á afar bágt með að samþykkja djöfulinn sem lýsingarorð. :-) Ég get bætt við orðum með þeim sniðum, sem til eru, en íslenskan er svo litríkt mál í beygingum og undantekningar og undandantekningar frá undantekningum etc. svo margar, að þetta verður víst seint fullunnið. Annars er góðar upptalningar á afbrigðum að finna á ótrúlegustu stöðum. Bruno Kress tekur þetta allt rækilega fyrir, málfræði Valtýs Guðmundssonar er enn nothæf með varúð og - viti menn - í hinu fremur litla kveri, Móðurmáls-bókinni eftir Jón Ólafsson frá 1911 er að finna nokkurn veginn allt, sem höfundi auðnaðist að finna, og var ekkert smáræði. Það er raunar gaman að íhaldssemi hans. Sögnin slyngja, slöng í þátíð er þar talin lifandi. :-) En spurningarnar eru sem sé: Hvar nálgast maður "setningafræði" sniðmáta, ef einhvers staðar? Hvernig vistar maður nýtt sniðmát og þarf einhver sérstök réttindi til þess? Ég mun nú þegja uns hjálp berst. Ég hef náð mörkum þess, sem ég get - a.m.k. án þeirrar yfirlegu sem þetta kostaði þig á sínum tíma, og mér þætti tvíverknaður að finna hjólið upp aftur. Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 20:32, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Með hvaða -[a/i/u][ll/nn]-orð hefurðu lent í vandræðum? Það er kannski ekki víst að nýs sniðmáts sé þörf. Á Wiktionary:Templates ættirðu að geta nálgast allar almennar leiðbeiningar um sniðanotkun. – Krun (talk) 22:34, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Þessa síðu fann ég en ekki almennar reglur. Ég var að svipast um eftir beygingu fyrir djöfulinn. E.t.v. hefur mér sést yfir eitthvað. En það er svo annað mál, að einhverjar reglur þyrftu að vera til reiðu, svo að aðrir geti búið til þau sniðmát sem vantar, og þau eru mörg. Þarf maður sérstök réttindi til að bæta þeim við? Hafi maður þau réttindi, hvernig kemur maður þeim fyrir á viðkomandi lista? Þú segist vera möppudýr, svo að þetta hlýturðu að vita. Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 00:03, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Þetta var misskilngur minn. Enn fremur las ég ekki fyrstu leiðbeiningarnar nógu vel. Ég biðst afsökunar á því. Ég hef afritað þær í sandkassann, vonandi með góðfúslegu leyfi. :-) En mig langar samt, þótt ekki sé nema fovitninnar vegna, að átta mig á reglunum um gerð sniðmáta. Eitt hef ég búið til, fyrir orðið altari, en það er einföld upptalning og auk þess límt í heilu lagi á síðuna sjálfa, en samræmisins vegna ætti þetta að vera í safni. Já, meðan ég man, orðið möppudýr var ekki illa meint. Þetta var alhaft á Wikiheimild í árdaga. Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 13:55, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Ég tek því ekkert illa að vera kallaður möppudýr, enda er ég slíkt „dýr“ á íslensku Wikipedíunni. Ég er þó reyndar ekki möppudýr (bureaucrat) hér, aðeins stjórnandi (administrator). Það var bara einhverntíma ákveðið á íslensku Wikipedíu að allir stjórnendur yrðu möppudýr líka. – Krun (talk) 14:12, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Orðið djöfull er annars ekkert vandamál; beygingin fæst með sniðinu {{is-decl-noun-m-s1}}, svona: {{is-decl-noun-m-s1|d|jö|f|u|l}} – Krun (talk) 14:14, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Svo þarf engin sérstök réttindi til að búa til þessi snið. Við sem skrifum færslurnar þurfum bara að koma okkur saman um hvernig á að staðla þær. – Krun (talk) 14:32, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Takk. Ég var raunar búinn að ráða við djöfulinn. Ég er ekki búinn að komast að því, hvernig maður kemur hinni gömlu beygingu orðsins brún fyrir, en það skiptir svo sem ekki máli, þetta er afgreitt í athugasemd.

En hvað sem því líður, það sem ég átti við með réttindum, er, að fari maður t.d. á síðuna [[12]] og smellir á Edit, birtist þetta:

\{{tempcatboiler|is|noun inflection-table}\} - öfug skástrik mín

þannig að sniðmátum hlýtur að vera stungið inn annars staðar. Vissulega mætti sækja síðuna í heild sinni og reyna að ráða í kóðann, en reynsla mín af þeirri táknasúpu, sem þannig fæst er ekki góð. Kær kveðja Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 15:09, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Þess má til gamans geta, að ég er enn stjórnandi í Wikiheimild undir öðru nafni. Ég hef ekki fengist við hana lengi. Ég nota núverandi "alter ego" í lögmætum tilgangi, ef þú skyldir velta því fyrir þér, hvort ég sé "sokkabrúða". Þú færð auk þess býsna mörg prik, ef þú ræður í, hvaðan Þórður Breiðfjörð kemur - það fer sennilega eftir aldri þínum. :-) Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 15:21, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Gott og vel, eitthvað hlýtur að hjálpa manni bak við tjöldin, því að ég sá altarið á listanum yfir íslenskar beygingar. Þetta virðist sem sé auðveldara en ég hélt, nema einhver annar hafi fært þetta til bókar. Ég mun halda áfram að ráða í sniðmátagerð, en annars þyrfti ég helst að læra PL/SQL og fleira tengt gagnagrunnum, VBA fyrir Excel, rifja upp R og er þá ekki allt talið á sem alsnöggvast, þannig að tíminn er naumt skammtaður. Þetta skeytaflóð mitt stafar eingöngu af því, að það er þriggja daga helgi á Íslandi - tæplega þó í Utrecht. :-) Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 16:19, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Þórður Breiðfjörð kemur að sjálfsögðu frá Matthildi ;). Konan mín er nú alveg sérstakur aðdáandi Útvarps Matthildar, Úllen dúllen doff, og fleira gamals og góðs íslensks gríns, svo að ég þekki til hans. Þú hefur væntanlega séð, miðað við svarið hér að ofan, að það var ég sem setti inn sniðið á altari. – Krun (talk) 20:02, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Mikið rétt! Ég tók raunar mátið frá öðrum flokki sterkra sagna og sneri því í s3. Við sjáum, hvað kemur út úr því. Þú ferð eftir hefðbundnum hljóðskiptaröðum, sýnist mér, sbr. þá ágætu vísu

Bíta, rjúka, bresta, nema, biðja, fara.

Rámur skyldi róminn spara.

Ég á að vísu eftir að reikna þessa svissa út, en það kemur. Hafi maður einu sinni lesið og skilið illa samið C-forrit og endursamið það, þá hlýtur þetta að hafast. Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 20:58, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Ég get núna…

Sæll aftur! Ég vona að þér sé ekki farið að leiðast. En eftirfarandi get ég nú gert og gildir allt um nafnorð:

• Farið eftir sniðmátum, sem til eru.
• Búið til ný sniðmát með upptalningu.
• Sett inn ný orð, þám. framburð, uppruna og beygingu.

Þetta get ég ekki:

• Samið nýja tegund sniðmáts, þótt leiðbeiningar séu vissulega til - þær eru bara svo mikið torf, að ég hefi varla tíma til.

Þessu get ég bætt við:

• Lýsingarorðabeygingum, sé beygingin til fyrir.
• Sama gildir um sagnir.

Ætli við verðum ekki að láta þetta duga í bili, þótt mig langaði raunar að smala sterku sögnunum. Með þetta í höndunum ætti ég að geta lagt eitthvað fram, þegar andi og nenna leyfa. :-) Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 17:23, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Ég spreytti mig annars á sögninni að ganga með búa sem fyrirmynd. Eitthvað var þar rotið í Danaveldi, þar sem ég fékk aldrei annað en kóðann sjálfan á skjáinn. Jæja, látum það vera, en ég hefði gaman af að vita, hvað fór úrskeiðis. Ef þú nennir geturðu litið í sandkassann minn og farið í ".../sandbox/ganga", en þar er að finna það, sem ég var kominn með. Kær kveðja Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 18:18, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Ég lagaði þetta. Það vantaði bara einn hornklofa. Svo eru samt beygingarmyndir af búa enn þarna inni. – Krun (talk) 18:33, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Kærar þakkir. Já, ég vissi af beygingarmyndunum af að búa. Ég ætlaði að skoða þetta smám saman án þess að vista (nema hjá mér), til að sjá, hvort ég hefði ekki raðað rétt upp. En þú ert vonandi sáttur við að fá sniðmát inn. Bestu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 18:52, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Áður en ég þagna í kvöld er hér spurning um miðmynd og fleira sagntengt

Sæll aftur!

Ertu með einhverjar hugmyndir um sagnir, sem ekki geta komið fyrir í miðmynd, svo og sagnir, sem aðeins eru til í miðmynd? Núverandi sniðmát setja allan hauginn inn.

Enn fremur: Mun ekki reynast nauðsynlegt að setja inn sérsnið fyrir næstum allar tvöföldunarsagnirnar svo og hinar núþálegu? Það mun verða mikil handavinna, en það er þó hægt að gera fremur "slavískt". Ég gæti a.m.k. bætt við einni á viku eða svo. Beztu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 22:03, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Sagnasniðinu er skipt í parta, og það er hægt að afvirkja hvern fyrir sig með því að bæta við act=- (engin germynd), mp=- (engin miðmynd), eða pp=- (enginn lýsingarháttur þátíðar). – Krun (talk) 15:15, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Ég er smám saman að átta mig á pörtunum. Ég setti að hanga rétt í þessu. Það er hægt að stytta sér tíma með Search-Replace. En varðandi setningarfræði þessarar uppsetningar allrar, var ég að rekast á, að Lua, af öllum málum, mun vera undirstaða þessara sniðmáta. Þarf maður virkilega að læra það? A.m.k. notar Lua slaufusviga, sem hér koma fyrir í massavís - sem minnir mig á erindi Tómasar Guðmundssonar:

Þegar frá dauðum Dassa rís

Drottinn kemur í massavís. :-)

Tómas hafði gaman af svona rímbröndurum sem og ég (þetta þekkirðu):

Og alveg varð ég hissa

er herrann lét sér detta

í hug að nota þetta

handa foringjanum Hitler

og föður Jósef Stalín.

– Nú fá þeir að vera saman,

og rímsins vegna í peysum

frá prjónastofunni Malín.

Kær kveðja Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 16:26, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Lua er ekki notað í sniðmátunum. Svokölluð modules (sjá Wiktionary:Scribunto) nota Lua, og það er hægt að nota þau inni í sniðmátunum ef maður vill, en ég hef ekkert farið út í það. Þetta er frekar nýlega tilkomið fyrirbæri, og ég hef raunar ekkert kynnt mér kosti þess. – Krun (talk) 19:34, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Meðal annarra orða

Hvernig eyðir maður undirmöppum úr sandkassa sínum? Ég bjó til eina fyrir sögnina að ganga og sit nú uppi með hana. Það birtist síðan sem sniðmát á síðunni yfir íslenzkar beygingar en það hvarf þegar ég tæmdi möppuna. Nú vil ég losna við hana. Ég mun halda mig við .../sandbox/tilraunir héðan í frá. — This unsigned comment was added by Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk • contribs).

Þú getur ekki eytt neinum síðum sjálfur; aðeins stjórnendur geta það. Þú getur alltaf sett {{delete}} á síðuna, og einhver stjórnandi eyðir henni innan skamms. Ég er búinn að eyða þessari fyrir þig. – Krun (talk) 16:58, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Hvort telur þú betra?

Sæll!

Sjá titil. Hvort telur þú betra, að búa til lítt fágaða grein með, segjum, einni merkingu, framburði, beygingu (sem er þá tiltæk) og vonast til að aðrir bæti, eða sökkva sér djúpt í efnið? Fullsmíðuð grein verður varla til nema með yfirlegu. En fyrst hér eru til Íslendingar, sem allir hafa öðru að sinna, má ekki gera ráð fyrir "sjálfleiðréttingu" smátt og smátt? Beztu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 20:25, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Ég held að það sé betra að setja inn færslu með litlum upplýsingum en að vera alltaf að geyma sér það þangað til að maður getur gert það „almennilega“. Það er líka, eins og þú segir, ekki ólíklegt að aðrir bæti einhverju við. Það sem er erfiðast að setja inn eru nákvæmar lýsingar á merkingu, notkunarleiðbeiningar (usage notes) og tilvitnanir. Hins vegar er lauflétt að setja inn framburð með IPA og tengli á rímsíðu, og beygingu (í flestum tilvikum). Þetta eru enn fremur upplýsingar sem engar aðrar íslenskar orðabækur bjóða upp á. Því finnst mér að við ættum einmitt að einbeita okkur að því. Lokamarkmiðið fyrir hverja færslu er svo að sjálfsögðu að hún gefi nákvæma og því sem næst tæmandi merkingarlýsingu, nákvæmar upplýsingar um uppruna og merkingarþróun orðsins, upplýsingar um dreifingu og algengi orðsins og merkingartilbrigða þess í tíma og rúmi, nákvæmar upplýsingar um framburð þess, einnig svæðisbundinn eða eldri framburð, með hljóðdæmum frá fólki á ólíkum aldri, af ólíku kyni, og frá mismunandi svæðum, notkunardæmi og helst a.m.k. eina tilvitnun fyrir hvert merkingartilbrigði, alla beygingu, og aðrar upplýsingar eins og við á, svo sem upplýsingar um orðið sem tökuorð í erlendum málum (sbr. Geysir), lista af samsetningum þess og öðrum afleiddum og skyldum orðum í málinu, myndir af því sem orðið vísar til eða hljóð (t.d. fyrir kvaka), notkunarleiðbeiningar, o.s.frv. Þú sérð því að mikið verk er fyrir hendi. Það mikilvægasta er hins vegar að bæta stöðugt meiru við safnið. Lítið er ávallt betra en ekkert (svo fremi sem upplýsingarnar eru réttar og passa í orðabók). – Krun (talk) 10:34, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Sem sé, tvær flettur á dag koma skapinu í lag. :-) Talandi um flettur, þá setti ég orðið ösnu inn rétt í þessu, aðallega vegna þess, að mér varð hugsað til miðmyndarsagnarinnar að asnast. Sögnin að asna er vissulega til í germynd, en eiga þetta ekki að vera tvær flettur - hafi ég skilið það rétt, að fletta sé á íslenzku það sem heita mun lemma á ensku? Ef svo er, þá ætti þetta við ýmsar miðmyndarsagnir. Beztu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 15:32, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Meðan ég man. Hvaða kröfur eru gerðar til heimilda, a.m.k. í fyrstu útgáfu greinar? Ég er íslenzkumælandi og auk þess málhreinsunarmaður, og ég hefi fengið mikla þjálfun í heimahúsum (ég fór m.a. yfir fjölda stafsetningarprófa á unglingsárum) og hefi lesið meira um efnið en tíðkast. Má þá ekki setja inn orð heimildalaust í fyrstu atrennu? Ég sé, að þetta er algengt. Ég nenni varla að vitna í Íslenska orðabók eða Ásgeir Blöndal (eða Sigfús Blöndal, ef því er að skipta) hverju sinni, sem mér dettur orð í hug. Beztu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 16:01, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Í raun hefur vísun í aðra orðabók ekkert sérstakt gildi. Heimild fyrir orði er frumtexti þar sem orðið er notað í samhengi, ekki bara minnst á það eða fjallað um það. Orðabækur geta verið mikilvæg heimild um sjaldgæf orð eða afbrigði, eða um orðsifjar, merkingarþróun, o.s.frv. Einnig eru þær gagnlegt tól til að finna orð, en við þurfum alltaf að meta hvort við getum treyst þeim upplýsingum sem þær gefa. Ekki eru allar orðabækur áreiðanlegar, eða öll allar færslur í þeim. Þær kröfur sem gerðar eru eru fyrst og fremst að uppsetningin sé eins og miðað er við hér, tungumál og orðflokkur gefinn upp, og að upplýsingarnar séu réttar. Hægt á að vera að finna þrjár tilvitnanir eftir mismunandi höfunda fyrir hverja merkingu orðs, en það er ekki nauðsynlegt að færa það inn strax nema einhver efist um að hægt sé að finna slík dæmi og leggi fram formlega beiðni á WT:RFV eða WT:RFD um að láta staðfesta eða eyða viðkomandi upplýsingum eða færslu. Ef orð er algengt og við getum staðfest það (t.d. með Google-leit) verður því raunar ekki eytt þó að við setjum notkunardæmin ekki inn. – Krun (talk) 18:30, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Hjartanlega sammála. En - eigi að síður - er "málhafa" treyst til að hafa rétt fyrir sér? Eins og þú segir má oftast finna tilvitnanir. Það er sjálfsagt að gera þá kröfu. En - og nú fyllist ég ef til vill mikilmennskubrjálæði - miðað við eigin kunnáttu og þau heimildarit, sem ég á tiltæk, er mér sem sé treyst sem heimild unz annað kemur í ljós. Ég tók t.d. eftir því, þegar ég færði orðið ösnu til bókar, að þar er til orð úr retórómönsku sömu merkingar (og sama uppruna) svo og skozkt orð, sem mun þýða rif. Engrar heimildar er getið. Þú þarft svo sem ekki að svara þessu. Ég er smám saman að átta mig á kerfinu. Og loks, eins og ég sagði fyrr, að mig minnir, er ég ekki málvísindamaður að mennt - heppilega, þegar ég þurfti að velja háskólagrein kom samanburðarmálfræði til greina, en ég valdi þann kost ekki og slapp þar með við að sækja mörg námskeið í anda Chomskys, sem er, að ég tel, einhver ofmetnasti maður allra tíma. Joseph Greenberg gerði meira gagn, þótt flokkun hans sé vafasöm, og næstum með öllu hafnað, hvað snertir mál indíána. Afrískur fjöldasamanburður hans var betur heppnaður, en þó mun menn samt sem áður greina á um einstök mál eða málaflokka í þvísa kontítenti. :-) Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 19:59, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Samkvæmt síðustu talningu

Sæll og sjá titil!

Samkvæmt síðustu talningu, 28. apríl 2012, voru íslenzkar færslur 14.931 talsins. Ég hefi ekki séð aðra, sem eru augljóslega Íslendingar hér nema þig og hinn ágæta notanda BiT. Þetta getur varla verið allt eftir ykkur, nema með gríðarlegri vinnu af beggja hálfu. Hve margir eru þeir Íslendingar, sem við þetta fást, svona á að gizka. Beztu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 17:01, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Ekki er það allt eftir okkur, en ég hugsa þó að meirihlutinn sé eftir mig eða BiT (eða a.m.k. að við höfum komið eitthvað nálægt því). Í árdaga var Schneelocke (talk • contribs) virkur í íslenskunni, BigDom (talk • contribs) hefur sett inn töluvert nýlega, og svo eru alltaf hinir og þessir að setja eitthvert smotterí inn annað slagið. – Krun (talk) 18:06, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Gott og vel! Ég reyni þá að koma tveimur atriðum á dag, en það eru þá ríflega 700 færslur á ári. Ég snýst í öðru, þannig að varla verður meira krafizt. Einn nokkuð ýtarlegur bálkur um íslenzku er reyndar til eftir mig - í annarri Wikipedíu. Ég held þar með, að ég hafi lagt mitt fram - til þessa. Beztu kveðjur Þórður Breiðfjörð (talk) 18:37, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

is-conj-w1

Hi Krun, I have had a go at creating {{is-conj-w1}} in my userspace here. I think it's mostly OK judging by the results on this test page, but there's just a couple of things: the present indicative of berja is wrong, obviously the 2s and 3s should be berð and ber, not berur. Also, I'm not sure whether the middle voice conjugations are completely correct. Would you be able to have a look? Cheers, BigDom (t • c) 15:07, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Right, I've fixed the berja conjugation using #ifeq: but I'd still be grateful if you could have a look through the rest of it before I move it into template space. Thanks, BigDom (t • c) 09:45, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

More about JA 鶴 and KO 두루미

Thanks to Wyang, there's more detail in the etyms at JA 鶴 (​tsuru) and KO 두루미 (durumi, “durumi”).  :) ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 04:50, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

WT:ID#Principal parts of Icelandic/Old Norse nouns and adjectives?

Could you help out with this? —CodeCat 12:27, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi

Nice to see you back editing. What do you think of idea of mass-generating stubs for Serbo-Croatian words by a bot, with etymologies, pronunciations, inflection, reference to HJP, but without actual definitions, using {{rfdef}} instead (or some kind of "stub" definition generated from Google translate)? I.e. something similar to what Tbot was generating before, with a notice "this entry needs to be checked/completed". The idea is that editors should spend less time on the Byzantine wiki markup and inflection, i.e. something completely automatible from existing databases which could be easily be imported en masse, and should focus more on adding definitions/usexes. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 10:05, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

I would support such an effort (i.e. mass import without definitions). After all, why should stubs with grammatical info and pronunciation and without a definition be any worse than stubs with only an incomplete definition and without grammatical information or pronunciation? I personally don’t think any one kind of dictionary data is inherently more important than another. As to importing Google translate glosses en masse, I don’t think we can legitimately do that. – Krun (talk) 19:45, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

jarg

Hi. Could you please add an Icelandic definition to jarg? --Back on the list (talk) 08:43, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Proposing changes to Template:is-noun

I would like to make some small changes to how the parameters of this template work. You're the most active Icelandic contributor so I wanted to ask if you are ok with it. The changes are:

• Instead of using - as the second parameter to indicate that a noun is a plurale tantum, you specify it by using m-p, f-p and n-p as the gender. Most other languages' templates work that way already, so it makes things more consistent and easier to learn.
• The second parameter can't be - anymore. If the noun is a plurale tantum, then the second parameter gives the genitive plural instead of the genitive singular.
• The third parameter can still be -. But if the noun is a plurale tantum, it's ignored. So it doesn't give the genitive plural anymore, only the nominative plural.

—CodeCat 18:56, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

I would support such a change. However, I am not certain that genitive plural should be there at all, though it is currently supported. It is not usually given in dictionaries, and it doesn’t really give one much of a clue about the class/declension paradigm that isn’t already given by the nominative plural. Of course, all the words get a full inflectional paradigm below the definitions anyway. Then the second and third parameters would both be ignored in the case of pluralia tantum.– Krun (talk) 21:12, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

That's ok too, I can remove the genitive plural forms from the headword line altogther, if you prefer. —CodeCat 22:07, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes, please do, and while you’re at it, could you also change the text uncountable to no plural form or some such. I believe this was discussed somewhere and already implemented for some languages, but I can’t remember exactly. – Krun (talk) 16:53, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

I've made the changes, and updated the documentation to match. I also made it categorise the entry if the genitive and plural are empty, so that we can easily find entries that are missing inflections. But there are probably also nouns that have no inflections; should I allow the second parameter (genitive) to be - when it should show "indeclinable"? —CodeCat 19:56, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Template:is-adj and Template:is-adj-01

The second shows the feminine and neuter forms, while the first doesn't. Is there a reason to have two different templates? It seems to me that we could orphan and delete one of them, but which one? —CodeCat 22:40, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

The second one. There is no need to specify feminine and neuter since they can be inferred from the other forms. An exception would be góður and perhaps einn, aleinn, etc. Perhaps we could allow them (as named parameters?) for use in a few pages? – Krun (talk) 23:24, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Or, actually, {{head}} can simply be used for such cases. – Krun (talk) 15:07, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Ok, I've converted them all over, and deleted {{is-adj-01}}. —CodeCat 15:44, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

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Template:el-nN-α-2a

I am not sure why you reverted my edit - but it was inappropriate. Greek declension tables do not include the article! — Saltmarsh. 18:56, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

I am very sorry. I wasn’t aware that I did. I do recall taking a look at your edit from recent changes on my phone, so I must have just reverted it accidentally. Don’t know how it happened, but I’ll make sure to be extra careful. – Krun (talk) 00:37, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Sorry for my ott reproof - I should have assumed it was accidental :) — Saltmarsh. 04:54, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

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sneddí

You made a typo in the etymology here that has gone unnoticed until now. What ought it to be? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:52, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

It’s supposed to be Danish. I’ve corrected it. Thanks for letting me know. – Krun (talk) 20:24, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Icelandic abbreviation

Hi there. I'm doing a bit of research at the moment, and looking back through old newspaper articles they use some notation for dates that I can't quite work out. For example, what does the "f. m." stand for in "Hann hefur 17 f. m. fengið veitingu fyrir embættinu."? Similarly, I have also seen "s. m.". Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, BigDom 12:23, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

The s. m. means sama mánaðar (“of the same month”) and f. m. must mean fyrra/fyrri mánaðar (“of the previous month”). – Krun (talk) 12:51, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks. BigDom 13:04, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

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You might want to review this diff. —suzukaze (t・c) 04:24, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Icelandic Trisagion

I have a question: What would the Trisagion (that is, "Holy God, Holy Strong, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us.") be like if written in Icelandic? Thanks for answering, and peace/frith be upon thee. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 23:35, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

That would be Heilagi Guð, heilagi Sterki, heilagi Ódauðlegi, miskunna þú oss. – Krun (talk) 23:48, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, Krun! I've also been thinking of a Tibetan version of the Trisagion. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 00:52, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Icelandic pronunciations

Hi Krun. An IP user has added some requested IPA pronunciations for Icelandic words (see [13]), but some of them seem a bit dodgy to me. At the very least, they don't match up with our usual phonemic transcriptions for Icelandic words. The main one that stands out to me is geysa - is it really not a homophone of geisa? To be fair, it isn't on Rhymes:Icelandic/eiːsa either. Thought I would check with you as a native speaker though. Cheers, BigDom 10:34, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Yes, geisa and geysa are homophones. I’ve fixed the entries and corrected and standardized the IPA transcriptions. Still, one feature of this anon’s transcriptions might be a good idea, namely the explicit indication of dipthongs, as opposed to two monophthongs, e.g. /ai̯/ instead of /ai/. I suppose I might bring it up some time later, when I’ve finally gotten myself to create an appendix page on Icelandic pronunciation. – Krun (talk) 17:01, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing all those. Yes, I noticed the non-syllabic diacritics - they could definitely be useful but like you say it isn't urgent. BigDom 13:05, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Jólabókaflóð

This is a wonderful phenomenon. Do you think you could create this entry with IPA and a quotation in time for it to be featured as Foreign Word of the Day? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 23:12, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

@Metaknowledge: Sure. It should be lower-case, though: jólabókaflóð. – Krun (talk) 11:16, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! Could you please add a quotation as well? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 17:21, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

@Metaknowledge: Done. – Krun (talk) 16:22, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

koma í ljós

A new IP recently added koma í ljós as the Icelandic translation of bring to light. Is this correct or does Icelandic have the same distinction as English, where come to light is different? --Hiztegilari (talk) 15:32, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes, Icelandic has the same distinction. koma í ljós means “come to light”, whereas “bring to light” is leiða í ljós. – Krun (talk) 15:35, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

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Mabinogion

Hi I corrected an entry 'Mabinogion' which was wrong almost entirely and lacked references completely. I added references including one by a leading authority explaining all issues in a short online essay. I have done 5 years PhD research in this field myself and I often help others, so I do know its basic issues. About an hour later the page was reverted. I checked History and the editor responsible (Chuck Entz) had invited a comment on his/ her page if the reversion seemed incorrect. I duly put a comment there, giving the four main issues I had corrected, and stating my research knowledge. Although I am an expert it is possible there is something I have missed so I said if he/ she had knowledge unknown to the Mabinogion research community then we need to hear about it. My comment threw a pink error message. It does seem difficult to provide correct information for this page. What do you advise?

Fortunately the abuse filter that prevented the edit kept a copy of it, so I know what you were trying to say.

I gather you haven't read the message I left on your talk page. The first part was the standard welcome template, but at the end I explained why I reverted your edit. It had nothing to do with any disagreement about content. It had more to do with the formatting horrors you visited upon a poor defenseless dictionary entry by trying to cram things into it in random places. For instance, I don't know about you, but I'm a native speaker of English. Not "Welsh, later English", but English. Then there's the "1795 by Edward Lhuyd 1706,then 1795" bit. It doesn't matter how much you know- if you can't present it in a form coherent enough for people to understand, you're wasting everybody's time. Chuck Entz (talk) 08:04, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Icelandic pronunciation anomaly?

Hey, I just wanted to clarify, with the word guð, the pronunciation says /kvʏːð/, however, if I infer with the rules on Icelandic orthography, I would get /kʏːð/ (without the /v/). Is this some kind of anomaly? Or an error to be fixed? If it is something irregular, are there more words that act this way? Cheers with any of your help — ^{oi yeah nah mate} amazingJUSSO ... [ɡəˈdæɪ̯]! 02:02, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, it’s only in the word guð/Guð, the verb guða, and compound words with the element -guð-, such as guðlegur, hjáguð, etc., and also many personal names, e.g. Guðrún, Guðlaugur, etc. This is originally a regular sound change (/kʏ/ > /kvʏ/) that affected many other words and was actually quite widespread before it subsided again, but persisted in guð for some reason. – Krun (talk) 11:06, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

r before s

Hi Krun, just double checking whether the "r" in words such as bursti and fursti is voiced or voiceless? Currently, we give the former as voiceless /r̥s/ and the latter as voiced /rs/. Cheers, BigDom 13:13, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

@BigDom Hi. -r- is almost always unvoiced before /s/, and it certainly is in both of these words, which are rhymes. If voiced [rs] is pronounced, I would say it is ususally an indication of another phoneme being present between the two, e.g. /rðs/ or /rvs/, where the middle phoneme is only weakly realized, if at all, but prevents the /r/ from becoming devoiced. [r̥] and [r] really should be considered merely allophones of a single phoneme in my opinion, but we need to come up with a robust new system before changing our transcription system (which is more or less the standard system used in Iceland). – Krun (talk) 11:58, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, that confirms what I thought was the case (and thanks for updating fursti). What you say about allophones is absolutely correct, and as I'm sure you're aware there are other allophones that our system describes as phonemic (such as [ɲ]). I don't know if you'd noticed but I've had some "complaints" about our current transcription system at the Beer Parlour and on my talk page, specifically regarding the phonemicity of vowel length in Icelandic. While I understand that vowel length and the allophones mentioned above aren't technically phonemic, I think our current system strikes the right balance between user friendliness and accuracy so for now I don't have much motivation to change it. BigDom 15:28, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

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Icelandic phonemic vs phonetic

I've been doing some cleanup in Icelandic entries lately and stumbled upon the problem that all pronunciation sections seem to be phonetic using phonemic transcription (cf. Icelandic phonology). For example, the entry tveir gives the pronunciation /tʰveiːr/, while I would expect /tveir/, [tʰveːi̯r]. The problem is that simply changing all pronunciations form phonemic to phonetic (which I was inclined to do at first) will provide issues with the rhymes, since they are based on the current phonetic values, rather than phonemic, which they should be. What do you propose regarding this issue? Thanks in regard. Thadh (talk) 17:28, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

@Thadh: It is actually meant to be a phonemic transcription, although it is very close to a phonetic transcription. It did use to be notated with [], but I changed the norm to // some time ago because I felt that the transcription wasn't narrow or phonetically accurate enough to merit the []. For example, the “long vowels” ɛː and ɔː are actually glides, something like [eɛː] and [oɔː]. Sometimes multiple realizations are possible; e.g. /v/ may be pronounced either as a fricative or an approximant ([ʋ]). Depending on the circumstances, pronunciation can actually be quite a bit more lax for many words, e.g. /ˈmaːðʏr/ might be pronounced [ˈmaːð̞ʏɾ] (with a dental approximant) or even [ˈmaːǝɾ]. The preaspiration sound is now transcribed /h/ in all cases for consistency and because it is often pronounced that way even after /i/, /ai/ and /ei/; these vowel phonemes can be pronounced with varying degrees of tenseness and when they are more tense, the /h/ is actually realized as [ç]. Increased tenseness can be the result of emphasizing the word or drawing out the syllable with the preaspiration, or of a desire for a clearer enunciation. Syllable/morpheme initial /n̥ (m̥) l̥ r̥/ actually transition from unvoiced to voiced in many if not all cases. The current system here can be described as “phonetic” (as opposed to “orthographic”, in the sense that the choice of symbol is based on phonetic symbols rather than orthographic ones) and “maximalist”, according to the classification at Icelandic phonology.

There are many phonetic differences which many might not consider phonemic, but what a simpler or more “elegant” phoneme inventory would look like is rather controversial. In particular, how much overlap in allophones is to be allowed? /kʰ/ (or /k/ if one is more orthographically minded) could potentially have the allophones [kʰ k x hk], whereas /g/ might have [k x ɣ j] and /j/ would of course also have [j]. /ŋ/ must be considered a separate phoneme in some cases (e.g. in dingaling, gong), but would also be an allophone of /n/ (the same might be said of [m]). Although this is not necessarily illogical, it conflicts profoundly with the traditional idea that each phone belongs to only one phoneme. Although I don’t quite subscribe to that idea, I also don’t see any reason to go so far overboard. [x] could then potentially stand for /kʰ/ (orth. /k/), /g/, /kʰː/ (orth. /kk/), /ɡː/ (/gg/) and /h/. How is one then to interpret loan words or words of unknown origin that contain [xt]? Just following the orthography is not really sound and creates artificial differences and, indeed, would create separate rhyme classes for codas that sound identical! Such a system would also require us to indicate morpheme (or at least syllable) boundaries in our phonemic transcriptions, something we have not been doing hitherto. Also, vowels length does seem to be be phonemic in some cases in loanwords and it is very important for learners of the language to grasp the concept of long and short vowels in Icelandic, especially that diphthongs can be short (Icelandic and Faroese are the only languages that I know of where diphthongs can be short). Even linguists often erroneously state that a diphthong is by definition long or must “by nature” be long.

In short, I think a “minimalist” phonemic approach will be too problematic and controversial. I do think, however, that it might be good to make some modifications to our phonemic system. In particular, transcribing /cʰ, c/ as /kʰj, kj/ and h-initial words with /hn, hl, hr, hj, hv (xv)/ rather than /n̥, l̥, r̥, ç, xʷ/ might be a good idea, but I wouldn’t want to do that until we have a good phonetic transcription (with automatic template) to go with it.

Lastly, I have to point out that tveir is actually not pronounced as you phonetically transcribe it; the [e] is actually quite short and the [i] is lengthened. The same applies to /aiː/, /auː/ and /øiː/ (/øyː/) – Krun (talk) 11:32, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your clarifications. I would personally not support an orthographic transcription as well, since it's clearly senseless (in no approximation would <g> in eiga and gler be pronounced the same), but modifications in the same way as you yourself proposed seem a good starting point to ameliorate the current transcription.

I don't think Wiktionary aims to be maximally phonetic in any language (compare also Russian's complete lack of [e̞]), and thus I don't really see the problem of providing a more lax phonetic transcription. This also has the advantage that, since pronunciation differs per person and situation quite largely, we wouldn't need to add all possible renderings of the same sound (I would guess that that also is the case with Icelandic relisation of /ɔː/ > [o̯ɔː], although as you might have guessed I am far from a native speaker).

What would you say about trying to design a phonemic transcription that more or less resembles WP's one, e.g. /ɡ/ for [k] and /k/ for [kʰ], while not excluding such phone(me)s as the continuants /ɣ/ and /j/? I suppose that at least the native terms will be mostly predictable (e.g. <agi> always being /aji/ as opposed to */aɡi/ or */aɣi/, giving the possibility to devise an automatic template.

Now, on the question of vowels, although you are absolutely right that the last vowel is the longer one (I shouldn't have missed that), do you think that, for example, transcribing /eiː/ as /ei̯ː/ or /e̯iː/ (I think it's the former, but I'm not sure), might be better? Although I guess the English entries use double vowel for a diphthong, I see problems concerning syllable identification in such transcription. What are your thoughts? Thadh (talk) 13:12, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

I wasn’t suggesting that we include such very narrow transcriptions as I mentioned with maður; I was merely illustrating how far the transcription can be from actual pronunciation. There is not really much diversity in pronunciation in Icelandic and this is more a matter of “clearly enunciated” vs. varying degrees of fast/sloppy speech. Some dying dialectal differences remain (for the time being), but these are relatively minor. However, they will still require different phonemic transcriptions (at least in some cases), not just different phonetic ones. There is some difference between age groups, e.g. younger people tend to use [ks] instead of traditional [xs], and there is a new trend of weakening the stop in <rn> [(r)tn] > [dn] or almost [n], still preserving (I think) some small difference with /n/, although to other speakers it might seem to be just /n/.

As to the transcription system, I am of the view that we should use /kʰ/ and /k/, chiefly because the the differentiating factor between them is aspiration, not voicing (. For that reason, I think /k/ and /ɡ/ are likely to cause confusion with language learners. I also think that we need /x/ in the transcription as well as /ɣ/. Transcriptions with ai(ː), au(ː), ei(ː), øi(ː)~øy(ː), ɪiː, ʏiː are normal for Icelandic and can safely be assumed to be diphthongs unless there is a length mark, stress mark or syllable separator between the vowels. This is the usual way to transcribe these dipthongs (i.e. without the non-syllabic mark below); it is also the norm for English and other languages as far as I can tell. I have seen the non-syllabic mark somewhere on Wiktionary, though. I am pretty happy with the current system for the most part. There are just the couple of things that I have mentioned, and also I have a bit of an issue with [ɲ], [ɲ̊], which I would like to classify as allophones of /ŋ/, /ŋ̊/. – Krun (talk) 13:36, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarifications. By the way, when speaking of differences I was speaking of personal, rather than dialectal ones. So, to sum up, the proposed changes are:

1. voiceless consonant (e.g. /n̥/) > preaspirate consonant (e.g. /hn/)
2. /ɲ/ > /ŋ/, [ɲ]

Reconsidering everything you've told me, I do see where the current transcription is coming from. Although I personally find it quite difficult to the eye, there seems to be far too little space for improvement to implement any large changes... If you do want to go through with the changes named above and construct an automatic template, I'd be happy to help, but otherwise I would propose we put this to a rest for the time being. Thadh (talk) 22:44, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

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Beygingartöflur fyrir lýsingarorð dregin af lýsingarhætti

Sæll. Veistu hvort beygingartöflusniðin styðja lýsingarorð dregin af lýsingarhætti þátíðar (blessaður, syfjaður, eitraður, sjúskaður)? Mér sýnist að "is-decl-adj" sniðin sleppi því að senda breytur í undirsniðin, þannig að töflur fyrir t.d. veika beygingu og miðstig séu ekki studdar.

Annað tengt, hvernig lagar maður lýsingarháttartöfluna í orðum eins og hvetja (þar segir „hann er hvatinn“ en ekki hvattur) og flytja (þar segir „hann er flutinn“ en ekki fluttur)?

Með þökk, Hvergi (talk) 11:40, 29 January 2022 (UTC)