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Right now I have a special interest in affixes! I've been trying to make Appendix:English prefixes as comprehensive as possible. I recently created Appendix:English prefixes by semantic category as an alternate sorting of it. I also have a third version that breaks it down by subcategory at User:Intersets/Categories, mostly as a place for me to experiment with subcategorization.

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Tasks

Current focus

• Figure out a way to start synchronizing the different versions of the appendix again so I can finish the subcategorization.
• Figure out subcategories for the category Abstract in Appendix:English prefixes by semantic category
  • Then work through any unsorted Abstract entries
  • Then cluster the subcategories until everything feels reasonable

Later but hopefully soon

• Check all of these are in the appendix
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arene_substitution_pattern
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_terms_of_location
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_location
• Adding the elements to Appendix:Chemical elements/English - could use examples, need to figure out a way to automate this
• Add examples to the appendix
  • https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol120312094thed/back-matter/appendix-i-anatomical-prefixes-and-suffixes/ ?
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_and_Greek_words_commonly_used_in_systematic_names
• Go through other lists
  • http://www.macroevolution.net/biology-prefixes-a.html - done A, 25 letters to go :)
  • https://www.oocities.org/warnerlessonplans/grammar/prefix.htm
  • https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol120312094thed/back-matter/appendix-i-anatomical-prefixes-and-suffixes/ - has examples
  • see talk page
  • Category:Translingual prefixes
• Consider scraping existing dictionaries
  • https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/index/Tabers-Dictionary/Entries/D
• Revisit questionable lists
  • https://www.learnthat.org/pages/view/roots.html - danger: this combines roots and prefixes, and that is something I have mixed up in the past
  • https://openmd.com/dictionary/word-parts/a - problem: turns out to be a list of root words. Some of them are flagged as [prefix] but many of the entries that don't have [prefix] on them are used as prefixes. Started going through this list and very quickly stopped. Not sure whether to return.
  • https://www-taylorfrancis-com.proxy3.library.mcgill.ca/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203421147-79/list-prefixes?context=ubx&refId=72293d0e-1746-4c34-bb3f-21874e8c67ca "Origins : an etymological dictionary of modern English" -- I did letters A through C and this source has a lot of root words listed as prefixes. The scan is also annoying to read. Probably won't return to.
• Add more lists if people send me more!
• Refactor my code for parsing Appendix:English prefixes and put it up on github so others can sort/filter/etc.
• Figure out how to set up a bot to automate sorting the content in Appendix:English prefixes into Appendix:English prefixes by semantic category

Entries

• don't forget about arseno
• figure out how to make entries properly
• make entries for the red links on Appendix:English prefixes
  • for finding examples: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Category:English_lemmas

Completed

• Went through all of Category:English prefixes and added entries to Appendix:English prefixes. Added 2048 prefixes in the process! 😯
• Have incorporated prefixes found in the following lists to the Appendix:
  • All of https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_medical_roots,_suffixes_and_prefixes&oldid=1208358797#E and added those.
  • https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy3.library.mcgill.ca/science/article/pii/B9780702072222000329 Dictionary of optometry and vision science - didn't add many
  • Warren: Dictionary of Psychology's table of prefixes https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1079363205 -- added a few
• Turned Appendix: English prefixes into table format and write a parser for myself to handle filtering by category / sorting / etc
  • Identified most common variant of each prefix
  • Set up a system of categories, subcategories, and a bonus column for doing things like sorting elements by atomic number.
• Added a column for examples to Appendix: English prefixes
  • Added all the examples from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_prefix
  • Added all the examples from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_roots,_suffixes_and_prefixes
• Added a bunch of proper nouns to Appendix:English nationality prefixes
• Created a categorization scheme for the prefixes that seems reasonable (or at least, I feel I'm being internally consistent), as well as subcategories for every category other than Abstract (which is ongoing), and a way to see the prefixes filtered this way at Appendix:English prefixes by semantic category.
• Separated out senses of the ~50 terms in the appendix that I flagged as "ToSeparate", most of which involved first updating that prefix's entry

References for myself

Links I don't want to lose

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Index_to_appendices
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Animals
• Appendix:English verbs with Latin prefixes
• JSON-formatted prefix data: https://kaikki.org/dictionary/English/by-pos-prefix/kaikki_dot_org-dictionary-English-by-pos-prefix.json

I just want on hand while editing

• Institutional log in to OED online: http://proxy.library.mcgill.ca/login?url=http://www.oed.com and to other reference materials: https://libraryguides.mcgill.ca/referencematerials
• Reference templates: {{R:Dictionary.com}}, {{R:MWO}}, and {{R:OED Online}}. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Reference_templates#English
• {{R:OED2}}) see https://archive.org/details/OXD1989ENEN
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Entry_layout
  • reminder:"A full definition should start with a capital letter. Because a definition is not normally a complete sentence, opinions vary on whether it is necessary to end a full definition with a period. However, in the current editing practice most definitions end with a period. "