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June 2024

capitaine#Noun

The definition specifies that this spelling, in English, is used by non-native speakers. But the last of the four quotations appears to have been written by someone who was proficient in English. Given that the writer was discussing the Montreal Canadiens, I believe their use of this spelling was a deliberate use of the French word, and therefore, the quote should not be used as an example of the (mistaken) use of capitaine in English. —⁠71.105.243.101 03:21, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

仔女 THANK YOU !!!

THANK YOU !!!

Artemis#Proper_noun

Definition 2 states The usual male variation is Artemios. Maybe that's true in Greek, but I think in English, it's Artemus or Artimus. Further, the quotations under definition 3 are from 1934, 2012, and 2009 (in that order). Shouldn't they be in chronological order? —⁠71.105.243.101 15:45, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Good eye. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:14, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Adding a new word to the dictionary

What is the criteria for a new term to be accepted as a word in the dictionary

See WT:CFI. Please don't try to add any words you made up, try Urban Dictionary for that. Justin the Just (talk)

Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/German_subtitles_1000

I just want to say thanks to whoever create this form!!!

cunt

How are two pseudonymous reddit posts from less than 2 years ago sufficient to establish their own definition? — This unsigned comment was added by 2603:7000:8c00:43e2:44d5:7d40:aa9:4018 (talk).

First off, it's not just based on that (as of this writing). Secondly, being pseudonymous is irrelevant: if a word is being used a certain way, you don't have to identify yourself to use that word. Odd line of reasoning. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:20, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

You misread the reasoning. It strikes me as very "urban dictionary" to add a definition to a foundational English word based on two anonymous reddit posts from less than two years ago. That said, the new link is somewhat more palatable: McNally 2016 (the p. 59 reference) never uses cunt as an adjective—only cunty—but at least it establishes a credible arrow pointing in that direction. 2603:7000:8C00:43E2:1A2:BA6A:A30C:3429 16:45, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

July 2024

leden

leden - serbocroatian there is a bad link down there. can anybody fi it who knows more? — This unsigned comment was added by Rasmusklump (talk • contribs).

Great point. I'm posting to the Grease Pit now. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:40, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

ماذا

also a relative pronoun? like in the citation? Justin the Just (talk) 05:20, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Appendix:Protologisms/Long_words/Titin

Wtf is that word with thousands of letters and how do you change it into Russian? — This unsigned comment was added by 178.122.242.146 (talk).

Bruh. Look at the page: it's a protein name and the Russian cognate is already listed. fr fr tho. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:38, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Category:English_three-letter_words

Hi, cool page, could you also include "sob" in the "S" section? Thanks! 2A02:8108:8380:30E4:A420:C57E:FF21:A32C 11:24, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

oko serbocroatian

Does oko have a Dual? I read in a songtext: Radost … na tvoje oka dva =happyness … in your eyes

Word of the day: pet shop

...and their first single, West End Girls, was released 40 years ago on 9 April 1984. On Wikipedia, only album titles are italicized; the titles of songs are enclosed in quotes. —⁠71.105.243.101 06:25, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Fixed. J3133 (talk) 07:58, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

update

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Ü Wikis are good things! :D Ü thx btw

durchfall

The form "Durchfall!" as an order seems strange to me. It should be "Falle durch". What does exist is der Durchfall, this is a diarröh. Rasmusklump (talk) 23:58, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Word of the day: enby

Pick a real word with a real meaning instead of this fantasy larp shit. You know, like the word 'larp'. 202.150.115.35 04:13, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

See “X isn’t a real word! Why do you have an entry for it?” in the FAQ at the top of this page. — Sgconlaw (talk) 11:38, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

ريال

Spain had no Geopolitical influence in Arabia, how come does wiktionary state the Arabic Riyal comes from the Spanish real when it was Portugal that controled key centres of trade in the region and thus influenced an handful of local terminologies, like the word for oranges and the real, the coin of the Portuguese empire.

2001:818:E3D4:9A00:10C7:D663:B190:E398 18:57, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

velicanstven

BY error I created the page velicanstven. I ask for delete it. Thanks. Rasmusklump (talk) 10:37, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

@Rasmusklump:  Done. Next time, you can tag such entries with {{delete|reason}}. — Sgconlaw (talk) 11:47, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

водоросли

Error Error Error anything that has to do with Kelp has error

What error? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:38, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

マッチ

マッチする • (matchi suru) suru (stem マッチし (matchi shi), past マッチした (matchi shita)) 86.41.246.98 10:43, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

This is a problem with a template that occurs in many entries. Justin the Just (talk) 12:36, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

pitch

I have been wondering about the etymology of a type of fruit tree variety known as a pitcher. I assumed this came from the pitcher = jug background, since pitcher varieties can be grown from cuttings (unlike most cultivars which must be grafted). I imagine someone putting fruit tree cuttings in a jug and spotting the roots emerging. However, it may be that the etymology is more to do with the 'throw' meaning of the word, i.e. pushing a cutting into the ground. Would be interested to know which is right... I noticed on this page that there wasn't a reference to pitcher, the jug or pitcher cultivars, so thought this might be helpful to mention. For what it's worth, I recently found out that the following cultivars are pitcher varieties. I believe they're a mixture of pears and apples: • Douthwaite • Guikian • Hainsworth • Hearty • Irish Pitcher • James Beauty • Langan's Pearmain • McCann • O'Gorman • Sac of Sugar • Sweeteen • Whit Moss Burg • McGrigors Pear This last piece of info is courtesy of the Irish Seed Savers Association which has a specialist orchard of pitcher varieties. "Jo Homan"

summit

WOTD: Can't find any cites for the "attended a summit" sense Justin the Just (talk) 03:31, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Blocking_policy

What do I do with all those thausands of contributions that are over there free to anyone and is it like that??

Wiktionary_talk:Main_Page

Is it possible to update the cantonese / Yue (粵) onto the english main page? it has 7000+ entries. https://yue.wiktionary.org/

Radiate7 (talk) 15:25, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 16:22, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

August 2024

Παναθηναϊκός

This entry should have a section for the modern Greek definition of this proper noun. —⁠71.105.243.101 02:49, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello guest. The Greek wiktionary wikt:el:Παναθηναϊκός is about Modern Greek (code el), which is indeed 1_ a proper noun (for the soccer team), and _2 in adjectival use: a fan of the team, or in lowercare wikt:el:παναθηναϊκός = someone overall related to "all Athens", "panathenian", or to the ancient Παναθήναια feast.

But here, the English wiktionary, does not have a Modern Greek section. The page wikt:en:Παναθηναϊκός has Ancient Greek (code grc), where adjectives are written -mainly- with capital initial letter. See “Παναθηναϊκός@ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝdictionaries” = "at the Panathenaea"

What we need to do now, is to add a Modern Greek section, with your proper noun. Thank you for your note. ‑‑Sarri.greek ^♫ I 07:04, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Ευχαριστώ! —71.105.243.101 14:48, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Word of the day: get in the boat and row

The inflections are totally wrong. The inflection entries were added by an IP in 2021. DonnanZ (talk) 08:39, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

That's kind of embarrassing. I fixed the main entry and I see you already marked the other entries for deletion. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 19:02, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

@Andrew Sheedy, Donnanz: ha ha, I didn't even notice. — Sgconlaw (talk) 19:11, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

whimsicalADDING IRANIAN LANGUAGE

--Siamak,ss68 (talk) 13:50, 4 August 2024 (UTC)'Hello and greeting Dears,many thanks for this amusing wikitionary but unfurtunaitly forgot add one of the important language for translation and it is persian or farsi that belong to IRAN please cosider and add this language .hope good things are coming for you. Regards Siamak Moradi

@Siamak,ss68: we do have a lot of coverage for the Persian language, but we're a site run by volunteers, only a few of whom know Persian- so we don't have Persian translations added for even a fraction of our three quarters of a million English words (see Category:English lemmas and Category:Terms with Persian translations). If you know the English word well enough to translate it, feel free to add the translation yourself. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:09, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Category:English_terms_suffixed_with_-cest

I feel like you forgot about the word "incest" — This unsigned comment was added by 108.45.56.188 (talk) at 23:02, 4 August 2024 (UTC).

Actually, -cest is derived from incest. It doesn't make sense semantically to analyze incest as in- +‎ -cest. Ioaxxere (talk) 01:37, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict) The suffix was created from the word. The word itself is from Latin incestus (“unclean, unchaste, impure”) from Latin in- (“not”) + Latin castus (“morally pure, chaste”), so the meaning of the "cest" in incest is pretty much the opposite of what the suffix means. The etymology of the word has been forgotten and no other well-known word uses "cest", so the syllable now carries the meaning of the whole word. Language change doesn't always make sense... Chuck Entz (talk) 01:43, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

vas

Serbocroatian vas ("your"). In the Table the form vaš is missing and/or a "usage note" what the differnce may be between vaš and was.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vas#Serbo-Croatian

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/va%C5%A1#Serbo-Croatian

--Rasmusklump (talk) 08:10, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

完稅

I felt this was Christmas when i opened it. Just a very heartfelt thank you to all the volunteers who so generously share their special knowledge. — This unsigned comment was added by 99.199.110.64 (talk).

Thanks for reading it and the kind words. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:30, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Talk:chronological_age

I am reaching out because I recently contributed to an article on your site that is highly relevant to my own website’s content. However, it appears that my contribution was removed without explanation. My website focuses on chronological_age, and including an external link to it in the article would greatly benefit both of our audiences.

Could you please assist me in understanding why my contribution was deleted and help me with the possibility of re-adding it? I believe that maintaining the link would provide valuable information to readers and enhance the article's relevance.

Thank you for your time and assistance. I look forward to your response. — This unsigned comment was added by Thomas Dennis Raymond (talk • contribs).

@Thomas Dennis Raymond: Thanks for writing. Your edit to the entry chronological age included a lot of information that you would not expect to find in a dictionary. Note that Wiktionary is a dictionary (with some similar reference works incorporated, like a thesaurus) and primarily focuses on words and how language is used and defined, not the broader social implications of a topic. Very rarely, usage notes can be included in entries if it's really necessary for contextualizing how a word (or phrase, etc.) is used and the etymology section of an entry may go into some detail about how a word was coined, originally used, etc., but the kind of information you added was not really appropriate. Additionally, you may want to see WT:EL for how entries are laid out in general. I've posted a welcome message to your talk page that may help you understand how things operate here. Lastly, the very notion of making any business decision contingent on the content of a wiki is a pretty bad idea, since the nature of wikis is that they are open to change. How any given entry looks today is very likely different from how it will look in a decade, even if those differences are pretty marginal. If you absolutely have to link to the permanent version of a page, there is an option for "permanent link" in the sidebar, so I guess you can link to that rev as long as it's live on the web. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:15, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Additionally, it looks like you wanted to discuss usage over time. Again, this can sometimes be included, particularly if there are obsolete or archaic definitions or forms of a term, but you may want to consider adding citations to show usage over time. If you have a handful of such citations, they can go in the main entry and a more-or-less indefinite amount can be added to a citations page. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:18, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Special:Search

Regex search does not work :(--122.164.84.37 20:40, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

stoje

Serbo-Croatian. The page stoje says that it was third-person plural present of stàjati. The declension table has an entry stȁjū where stoje should be...

--Rasmusklump (talk) 23:47, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

I want to skip to specific language's definitions!

I really want a way to immediately skip to a specific language in definitions, as 99% percent of the time, when I'm looking at a page, I either want to see the definition for Spanish or German, and it's annoying, and often confusing when I need to scroll through languages that I don't need, that auto-expand, when looking for definitions :) (I don't know if this already exists but I would love dedicated grammar guides for languages) Diacius (talk) 22:01, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Thesaurus:steal

Is there a hyponym of steal that is used when the victim is a combatant who was killed during war? —⁠71.105.243.101 10:28, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Probably loot, pillage, or plunder, which connote stealing during an armed conflict. I don't think there's a word which specifically means stealing from a person who has been killed. — Sgconlaw (talk) 22:27, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. —71.105.243.101 00:03, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

embronze

Category is wrong. 2600:8804:481:F300:1532:1130:76B0:2E9E 04:08, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

Please explain what you mean. — Sgconlaw (talk) 04:50, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

English terms prefixed with en- 2600:8804:481:F300:1532:1130:76B0:2E9E 10:38, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

That's actually correct. "em-" is just what you normally get from "en-" before a labial consonant like "b" or "p". Chuck Entz (talk) 11:29, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

Maybe it is time for somebody to inspect category:English terms prefixed with em-, then. (((Romanophile))) ♞ (contributions) 10:05, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

@Romanophile: I actually think it is better to retain "Category:English terms prefixed with em-" as a separate category, but perhaps with a usage note added to explain that em- is a variant of en-. — Sgconlaw (talk) 22:25, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

niesen

The form niesen is not obsolete at all. It is in regular use. See https://woordenlijst.org/zoeken/?q=niesen Jcwf (talk) 11:37, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

fniezen

This form is seriously obsolete. It already was in 1919. See https://gtb.ivdnt.org/iWDB/search?actie=article&wdb=WNT&id=M016780&lemmodern=fniezen&domein=0&conc=true Modern Dutch has either niesen or niezen. Jcwf (talk) 11:39, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Requested_entries_(Silesian)

Hello This Is Me I have been an enter-set for the mid-language for decided now and i'm interested to registering the Arthur but I don't where to begin?! --Maku586 (talk) 15:48, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

@Maku586: it is not clear what you wish to do, so please explain it again. Thanks. — Sgconlaw (talk) 22:23, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

keg

There is a Dutch word keg (f/m), meaning a wedge that is used immobilize objects like doors. There is also a verb keggen that indicate that action.see

It is probably a cognate of en: key. Etymologiebank 2603:6081:2200:36F:495C:1A21:2E1F:D936 11:27, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

September 2024

Special:Contributions/83.149.45.113

Unfortunately, I've got no paid subscribtion for the Exford Dictionary, therefore I cannot check its page for the word 'exile' as adjective or adverb, could some users, who might happen to have it, check it out and supplement the present page of the word? 83.149.45.113 10:55, 2 September 2024 (UTC)