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Erutuon (
talk·contribs) — I know a lot about Ancient and Koine Greek, and Classical Latin, and a little about old Germanic languages (Old English, Old Norse, Gothic). Pester me with questions if you have any.
Johanna-Hypatia (
talk·contribs) – Deeply into Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Uralic, Altaic, and Algonquian among others, proto languages in general. I have a habit of inserting etymologies, or improving them, wherever I see a chance to.
LingNerd007 (
talk·contribs) - Currently a BA. Ling., for all intents and purposes a hobbyest for anonymity's sake, interested in comparative/socio-historical and theoretical+typological+computational linguistics.
help clean up and reference our many frayed
lists of etymologies. Help organizing the category structure and the "etymological dictionary" part of Wikipedia into an accessible format.
Add {{wiktionary}} on articles dealing with specific etymologies. Conversely, link to these articles from wikisource using
wikt:Template:Wikipedia.
Current projects
At the moment, a number of editors are trying to standardize the etymologies for words ending in
-logy. If you want to be involved in this project, please join the discussion on the
talk page of -logy.
Tahash–accuracy of use and interpretation of sources is controverted. 45 centuries of semantic change represented. Needs expert evaluation. --
Michael Paul Heart (
talk) 06:07, 19 January 2011 (UTC)reply
Please check the stub
Meal ticket (idiom), which I created. I can't contribute because it's out of ma area of expertise, in fact I created the article because I wanted to know about the subject. Asinthior(
talk) 16:00, 20 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Tamil loanwords in Biblical Hebrew and the related
Tamil loanwords in other languages appear to have some pov issues around tamil nationalism, and the former is of very poor quality (the grammar is spotty, loanwords are cited only transliteration, sometimes unvocalised, and sometimes seemingly inconsistent with the grammar suggested by the translation). Several of the examples also seem to be stretched at best and, one of the cited works also calls several of the examples provided by one of their other sources "highly controversial", something the article does not bring up
Tristanjlroberts (
talk) 14:39, 1 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Please feel free to list newly created etymology-related articles here (newest at the top). Interesting or unusual etymologies can be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page; see
Template talk:Did you know.
Has anyone seen the
Classical article? It was a disambiguation page but I've beefed it up a bit and it now attempts to cover the etymology of the word and explain how the different meanings of the word are related. Maybe you could say it is being etymological about its disambiguation.
Yaris678 (
talk) 17:30, 10 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Templates
WikiProject Linguistics template
If an entire page is within the scope of the task force, the corresponding talk page should be tagged with the template {{
WikiProject Linguistics|etymology=yes}}.
The task force uses the
standard WikiProject assessment criteria. For the |class= parameter, use |class=FA/A/GA/B/Start/Stub/NA, and for the |importance= parameter, use |importance=Top/High/Mid/Low/NA.
Etymology section template
If only a part of an article is within the scope of the task force (e.g. an etymology section), use the template {{
Etymology section|class=class|importance=importance}}.
The |class= parameter has three possible values, "good", "incomplete", and "missing".
|class=good is for articles whose etymologies are complete and reliably referenced.
|class=incomplete is for articles where an etymology is given, but is unreferenced, or only one etymology is given when there are multiple possibilities.
|class=missing is for articles that don't give an etymology, but should.
The importance scale uses the usual importance values (Top/High/Mid/Low/NA), but is assigned in a slightly different way from other WikiProjects. It is based on how many other articles link to the article. This can be found by clicking "What links here", and is mapped to importance as follows:
|importance=top is for articles with more than 250 references to them (i.e. more than 5 pages of links in the "What links here" page)
|importance=high is for articles with more than 50 references, or more than 1 page of links in the "What links here" page
|importance=mid is for articles with 10 or more references
|importance=low is for articles with less than 10 references
User template
The template {{User Etymology}} can be placed on the user pages of members of the project.
Other templates
The template {{Etymology}} may be used to format etymologies within article text.
Categories
Articles about a particular word's etymology should be placed in
Category:Etymologies or one of its subcategories.
Articles dealing with the field of etymology itself belong in
Category:Etymology