Talk:-lendingen

RFD discussion: March 2018–January 2022

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-lendingen

-lendingar

-lendingane

(Norwegian) Inflections of suffixes aren't usual in my experience, but I am not sure what the policy is in other languages. I doubt that this is of any use, users are more likely to look for inflections of complete words using the suffix. . DonnanZ (talk) 16:31, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Well, including the forms at the suffix lemma page is definitely useful. However, this doesn't look like a proper suffix to me, e.g. islending isn't is + -lending ("inhabitant of ice"?) but Island + -ing with a vowel change in land. Same for utlending (< utland), sørlending (< Sørland(et)). Same thing happens in Danish, but spelled -lænding.__Gamren (talk) 12:46, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Delete; per Equinox, inflected forms are made by inflecting the full word, not by inflecting the suffix. And per Gamren, it's even worse: -lending should be deleted too. --Per utramque cavernam 14:52, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

While I agree that both should probably be deleted (though without outright supporting it), I contest your statement that “inflected forms are made by inflecting the full word, not by inflecting the suffix”: in Germanic, especially Nordic, languages, nominal suffixes usually form the basis of the inflections of the words they derive, determining properties such as gender and countability. The same can be observed in much of the rest of Indo-European.  — J​as​p​e​t 20:11, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

There may be two schools of thought with -lending, “-lending” in The Nynorsk Dictionary., and for example “islending” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB)., where it asserts it is Island + -ing. Thus I am not proposing the deletion of -lending. DonnanZ (talk) 15:27, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

In Russian, which is heavily inflected, we also inflect suffixes where appropriate. For example, -ский (-skij). —Stephen ^(Talk) 05:27, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Keep: First, please ping the creator of entries that are nominated for deletion (anyone!).

Now, for the deletion request itself: suppose you look up a word in Wiktionary and have no luck. You may still be able to recognize that -lendingar is a suffix, and that way deduce the meaning of the word correctly by looking up the first part of the word and the suffix separately. While -lending might show up as a search suggestion when you enter -lendingar (currently it does not, in fact), by going to the page -lendingar you will be able to exclude the possibility that other suffixes have this inflected form.

In short, keeping entries for inflected forms of suffixes like -lendingar aids user navigation, just like keeping entries of other inflected forms does. --Njardarlogar (talk) 18:51, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Delete, not true suffixes. Ultimateria (talk) 22:12, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

RFD-deleted. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 19:09, 15 January 2022 (UTC)