cauda / PIE root *keh₂u-

Fragment of a discussion from User talk:Rua

Great attitude you got there. I spent about an hour trying to create that page, but yeah, flush it down the toilet instead of fixing / adding to it. Thanks.

EstendorLin (talk)00:26, 17 May 2017

I do that with all reconstructions lacking descendants. Descendants are absolutely vital for reconstructions, and lack of them makes the entry useless.

CodeCat00:28, 17 May 2017

So because I cannot at the moment spend another 3 hours reading through all the documentation of Wiktionary to add the bazillion templates required (which I am not at all familiar with), instead of being helpful or at least patient, you just delete everything I've done. The root is listed in IEW and I've provided the link. I undertand that you may prefer a different spelling, but instead of moving my work over to your preferred variant, you're deleting everything. (BTW the *keh₂u- version is listed on some entry, that's how I created the page. So then that needs correction.)

EstendorLin (talk)00:34, 17 May 2017

Codecat can't delete anything. Your edits are still accessible in the history.

DTLHS (talk)00:36, 17 May 2017

Thanks. :) I've copied the code to a TXT file and I'll get back to it when I have time to figure out how to add the derivatives.

EstendorLin (talk)00:38, 17 May 2017
 

The point is still that you didn't list any descendants, even though WT:AINE says they must be provided. I would have simply moved the entry if there had been descendants present. Instead of arguing with me, why don't you go an add some to the entry?

CodeCat00:37, 17 May 2017

Because it's past 2:30AM here and I'm about to go to bed. Again, I've tried to add descendants, but since I'm not familiar with the templates, it's not something I can do in just a few minutes. Anyway, I've saved my work to a TXT file and I'll get back to this another time.

EstendorLin (talk)00:40, 17 May 2017

I looked in De Vaan 2008, he lists no derivations from this root other than cauda itself. A single term is not enough to base a PIE root on.

CodeCat00:59, 17 May 2017
 

You can also build your new entry and experiment with the templates in a user page (sandbox) of yours, and then copy to main space when you get confident enough.

Julien D. (talk)01:25, 17 May 2017
 

I also created an entry for *kewh₂-, a similar root that is often related/conflated with this one.

CodeCat01:26, 17 May 2017