Nicodene

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I have gazed into the abyss of all that needs to be done and shuddered. I am going on indefinite leave. I will still be around to fulfil specific requests or offer suggestions if such are asked of me.

I mainly deal with Latin and Romance entries.

Appendices

• French terms inherited from Latin
• Italian terms inherited from Latin
• Mozarabic kharjas

Categories

• Romance terms inherited from Latin nominatives
• Latin terms with variable monophthongization
• Italian terms with voicing of Latin /-p t k-/
• Sardinian terms with /e/ for Latin /i/
• Late Latin prepositional compounds
• Catalan masculine forms with -o
• Georgian terms with /f/
• Early Medieval Latin

To-do

• Recategorize all 1099 Catalan words that are claimed to be 'inherited from Old Occitan' as either inherited from Old Catalan/Latin or borrowed from Old Occitan. ✓
• Remove hundreds of fake Mozarabic words added by Romandalusí, often through thirty or so different IP's. ✓
• Sort through categories for Romance words claimed to be 'inherited from Latin' and remove the ones that were evidently borrowed, either from Latin or another Romance language.
  • Catalan ✓ 15/08/23
  • French:
  • Italian:
  • Occitan:
  • Portuguese:
  • Spanish ✓ 03/09/22
• Move all 'Reconstructed Latin terms' which are in fact attested (in the appropriate time period) to the mainspace, with citations: (in progress)
• Recategorize Romance terms 'inherited from Medieval Latin' as one of the following: (in progress)
  • Inherited from Early Medieval Latin
  • Borrowed from (later) Medieval Latin
  • Inherited from a reconstructed 'Vulgar Latin' term
    • which may have later been borrowed from Romance into Medieval Latin in a perfectly etymological shape
• Neapolitan clean-up: (in progress)
  • Fix/check metaphonic plurals ✓
  • Harmonize/fix IPA transcriptions
  • Relemmatize verbs to ⟨-re⟩ spellings ✓
  • Sort out etymologies, particularly inherited vs. borrowed