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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 10:04, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

I'd like to thank you again for your contributions on Afrikaans. As you can tell, native speakers of Afrikaans are badly needed here. One thing to keep in mind is that Wiktionary is a descriptive (descriptivist) dictionary, so if a single word meets the criteria for inclusion (3 independent uses spanning a year) it's usually included (unless they're typos, scannos, uncommon misspellings, etc.). However, you are free to tag terms as nonstandard or uncommon as appropriate. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 13:10, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Voertsek

Feel free to create the Afrikaans lemma at voertsek, as that looks like the most common form on Google Books by far. The English should probably stay where it is, though. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 10:04, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Done. I also want to fix kolonist, the Afrikaans translation is without the "t" at the end. Can I proceed, or will it also be rolled back? Regards. Naudefj (talk) 04:55, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

 Done. That one was my fault. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:06, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

induna

It looks like you copy-pasted the trans-table from holonym, and you didn't change the gloss. I've now fixed it. Please be more careful. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 17:26, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Oeps, jammer! I understand the entry layout of the Afrikaans Wiktionary, but the English one is still a bit of a misery to me. Groete. Naudefj (talk) 19:58, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

No worries, just ask if you need any help. Your additions have been good, and I appreciate someone checking our Afrikaans content. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 01:11, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

changing t to t+

It is all right if you change {{t}} to {{t+}} (where appropriate, of course), but the same work is also regularly done by bots, so you can also decide to leave that to them. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 15:55, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Good to know, thanks. I'll focus on more productive tasks. Regards. Naudefj (talk) 16:13, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

regstaat

Do you know whether the Afrikaans is a calque/adaptation of Dutch rechtsstaat or German Rechtsstaat? ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 12:22, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Not sure, but if I have to guess, I'll say it is from German:

"Vanaf 1652 het hoofsaaklik Nederduitse en Hoogduitse immigrante hulle aan die Kaap gevestig."[1]

And from rechtsstaat: "Around the 1860s. From recht +‎ -s- +‎ staat, calque of German Rechtsstaat."

Regards. Naudefj (talk) 13:07, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Right, that isn't enough to decide the origin. Do you know of any good Afrikaans newspaper databases? ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 12:57, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

kikvors

I wondered whether you could help me with Afrikaans kikvors. Does it cover both frogs and toads, like padda does, or only frogs? ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 08:19, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

"Kikvors" is an old relic from Dutch that only exists in dictionaries. It is a synonym for "padda" (frogs and toads). "De herkomst van de Nederlandse naam kikker of kikvors is onzeker, maar hij wordt meestal als klanknabootsend beschouwd." Regards. Frank

Thanks for your response. It is indeed a rare and now seldom used term. It seems that some translation dictionaries specifically limit it to frog? ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 14:02, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

I guess it's possible. On a technical level one can differentiate between a "padda" (frog) and a "skurwepadda" (toad). But in the general sense, a "padda" is a frog or a toad. Regards. Naudefj (talk) 16:00, 15 January 2020 (UTC)