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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Vininn126 (talk) 10:48, 7 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Examples

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Please add exampoles using the formatting here. The templates categorize the pages and also makes it easier if there are bot changes. Vininn126 (talk) 18:09, 7 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

New Czech entries

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Hi, it's great that you are adding new Czech words from the WT:RE:cs list, but some of your entries are sometimes slightly misleading due to their brevity or "lack of feel" (no offense intended). If you could add this template to your entries and potentially do a cross-check, I think it would help a lot. Also, I suggest cross-checking your translations on slovnik.cz and slovnik.seznam.cz. Thank you for your interest in the Czech language, as a native, I really appreciate it. CaptainPermaban (talk) 14:40, 28 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Old Czech

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Hello, thank you for your contributions. Please use {zlw-ocs-noun} instead of {head|zlw-ocs|noun}. Thank you. Zhnka (talk) 20:22, 1 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi @Zhnka, thanks in advance for all your corrections & contributions. Are you systematically building Old Czech lemmas? As for etymology, I mostly turned to Machek. Do we have lit. for first attestations? Also, feel free to contact me by mail. Chihunglu83 (talk) 20:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Module errors

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Please stop leaving entries with module errors. If you can't get the declension template to work, leave the declension section out, or use {{rfinfl}} instead of the declension template. You should always preview your new entries and fix any serious problems before you publish/save them, or at least view them immediately afterwards and fix them right away. Going on to create 25 more new entries while there's still a module error calls into question whether you even care about getting things right. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:31, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Surnames in Estonian

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Please don't create tons of entries with wrong pronunciations in a language you don't know Auringonlasku (talk) 11:12, 9 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Animacy in Slovak

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Don't forget to add the animacy of masculine nouns F. V. Lorenz (talk) 18:55, 12 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

вагабонт

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The stress is wrong and how can you be sure it is a direct borrowing from French? Anatolijs LTV (talk) 17:30, 23 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

The stress is automatically transcribed so when the word is of foreign origin, yes, in this case, it was wrong to be in the first syllable, feel free to change it. Since we do not have an etymological dictionary yet, I guess it's better to put the ultimate origin, it might be a recent loan from English rather than French, but this is really a minor issue since English borrowed it from Old French. Chihunglu83 (talk) 17:57, 23 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Since you think it's better to put at least the final origin, you should put something like "Ultimately from ((der|mk|fr|vagabond))", saying that it is directly borrowed emphasizes that the etymology is correct or finalized. Anatolijs LTV (talk) 18:44, 23 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

My apology

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Hello Chihunglu83, I would like to apologize for what I said to you when I was editing Pilnáček, I was very nervous for personal reasons and I called you "čínštinanegr", which is Czech slang for chigga, I feel bad for saying that to you, maybe you didn't see it because my page edit history was deleted, but I hope you can forgive me and we can be good companions on this website. F. V. Lorenz (talk) 03:37, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

@F. V. Lorenz Hi, I did see that. I accept your apology. To be honest, I don't care and I am not here for that. We still have a lot to do for Czech entries, so let's keep going on to make quality stuff 🔥 Chihunglu83 (talk) 06:59, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ratь

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Chihunglu83, the reference that you have provided for Proto-Slavic *ratь is not for a different form of *ortь (war) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-). It is an unrelated term, apparently meaning "hoof", perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (to plough). Which of the two do you mean? 2A02:C7C:3848:1700:F8C5:F46D:DF87:C6B6 14:07, 13 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I guess you read some literature about it. According to ESSJa dictionary *ortь (“war”) and *ratь(hoof) may not be a synonym, but some scholars had doubts about it. ESSJ said that Franz Miklosich
cited ratъ as bellum(influenced by his South-Slavic background), Czech scholar Gebauer also used ratъ for war. As for *ratь meaning hoof, unfortunately I am in the process of verification. Since I don't have Kalál or other Moravian dialectal dictionaries with me right now. And maybe yes, probably using *ortь 1 and '*ortь2 might be better in the lemmas. I will definitely add more info in a moment :) Chihunglu83 (talk) 14:22, 13 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Old Church Slavonic рать (ratĭ) and Czech rať are the expected reflexes of Proto-Slavic *ortь, though. They don't require alternative *ratь (the metathesis *or- > *ra- in Czechoslovak and South Slavic is self-understood). 2A02:C7C:3848:1700:F8C5:F46D:DF87:C6B6 18:43, 13 August 2024 (UTC)Reply