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Etymologies
editHi! Because you don't interact beyond asking very similar questions repeatedly, several editors have started to feel that you should please refer to the answers to your previous questions, e.g. Wiktionary:Grease_pit/2018/June#Hittite_cognates and Wiktionary:Grease_pit/2018/June#Words_of_Provencal_origin, and at least show that you've tried to generalize those methods and figure out how to answer the question yourself (e.g., see if there is a category for "terms derived from Foobar"; perform searches, of a database dump or via the search function, for {{der|(code(s) of whatever borrower languages you're looking at)|(code of whatever source language you're looking for); etc) before asking more such questions. - -sche (discuss) 15:39, 3 July 2018 (UTC)