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Talk:either

Is the sense "each" non-standard? It seems to contradict the sense of "one or other" (but not both). — Paul G 11:00, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't know such a sense? Can you give examples? — Hippietrail 12:21, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * I've checked - this is acceptable usage. I give an example in the page ("a door at either end of the room" = "a door at each end of the room") — Paul G 08:56, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * Oh you should've said, yes I know this usage. It's a different sense since it actually means "both" rather than "each", and of course only works with two things. — Hippietrail 11:05, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

SAMPA needs to be corrected. — Paul G 11:00, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I've improved the pronunciation section. — Hippietrail 12:21, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks. — Paul G 08:56, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Is "either" also an adverb, as in "I don't like him and I don't like her either"? — Paul G 11:15, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I guess so. It has such a specific set of grammatical functions that it's hard to put it in generic categories. If it weren't in a western European language it would probably be called a particle... — Hippietrail 12:21, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * Again, I've checked, and this is the case. I'll put it in now. — Paul G 08:56, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Pronunciations
My pronunciation might just be Americanized, but as a Canadian, I use both pronunciations interchangeably. I am about to remove the tags because after the addition of Canada, they are going to be the exact same. —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 23:12, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Why are there two pronunciations of either?
As this can be a heated topic, I feel that I best give all that I know right off the bat in the table below.

I would have to assume that, sometime after the early stages of the Great Vowel Shift, and before the meet-meat merger, the /eɪ/ in /eɪðɚ/ would have monophthongized to /eː/. Individual words do  sometimes shift. Anyway, this is what I know. From other sources, like dictionary.reference.com, it is said that until the nineteenth century, the standard pronunciation of either  was /iːðɝ/. So, how did the pronunciation /aɪːðɝ/ come to be?

I have heard the story: "Queen Victoria married a German who brought over the /aɪ/. In German, 'ei' is pronounced /aɪ/, and the word is spelt with 'ei'." However, around the Web somebody refuted the idea saying that German cognate is pronounced something like yay-duh. So, if the Queen's spouse was keeping true to his native language, he would have probably pronounced the word as something like /eɪðə/, closer to the German cognate. Also, other words spelt with "ei" never shifted, like received, weight, etc. (except the word neither, derived from either). The only other word that I can think of where "ei" is pronounced as /aɪ/(excluding proper names) is height. However, in Middle English, it was sometimes spelt "hight," suggesting it was pronounced /hiːxt/. So, the origin of their pronunciations have nothing to do with each other. And I am still left confused. Therefore, I humbly ask for clarity. I thank you in advance.

 * Doubtful. First, the German words for either are entweder or jeder, so no /aɪ/ there. Second, how a foreigner, even a king, pronounces an English word usually does not influence native pronunciation. Third, in earlier times, the written language did not have much effect on the spoken language, since many or most people did not read or write, and since there was not that much material to be read anyway. But in the spoken language, vowel shifts are not uncommon, and the English language underwent the Great Vowel Shift in the 1500s (extending through the 1700s). The word either in Middle English was pronounced [ˈæːjðər]. The vowel sequence [æːj] was not much affected by the Great Vowel Shift (which mainly affected the pure vowels aː, eː, iː, oː, uː and a, e, i, o, u), but soon after the main shift (but before the main shift was completed), a secondary shift caused the pronunciation of [æːj] to change to [iː], and then a third small shift soon after affected the pronunciation of [æːj] (which was still in the process of changing), changing the pronunciation of [æːj] to [aɪ] (hence [ˈaɪðɚ]). So large areas eventually adopted the pronunciation [ˈɪːðɚ], while some areas wound up with [ˈaɪðɚ]. The pockets in the U.S. where either is pronounced [ˈaɪðɚ] were created by settlers who originated in those areas of England where [ˈaɪðɚ] was the predominant pronunciation. —Stephen (Talk) 05:32, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Although I don't believe the story of Queen Victoria's spouse either, it is a  story told. And I simply have it here only so that somebody did not give the story as a response. However, fortunately, you, sir, and I both agree that this story cannot be true. However, I am still a little confused. That being said, do you, sir, happen to have another example, excluding derived forms of either, where [æːj] became either [iː] or [aɪ]? That would be helpful. Thank you.74.102.216.186 15:30, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * For one problem, unfortunately an unavoidable inconsistency, sometimes the alteration of the diphthongs, including [æːj], are considered a part of the Great Vowel Shift, and other times they aren't. But if we wish to say they aren't, then that's fine.  I have no objection.
 * Secondly, [æːj] in many other words such as day, vain, and weigh shifted to [eɪ].

 * The German story makes no sense, of course, but if it were true it could only have been spelling-based. The German person would have read out "either" with a diphthong because of German spelling conventions: the spelling "ei" being pronounced or archaic/regional . It has nothing to do with cognates because the related words "jeder" and "weder" have no "ei" in the first place, and they are also used rather differently from English "either", so people don't easily realise them to be cognates at all. Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840. The pronunciation is without doubt much older. 90.186.170.236 10:17, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Any
"When there are more than two alternatives, "any" is used instead."

What does it mean? So I'm supposed to say "Any you eat your dinner or go to your room or go outisde"? According to the any entry in this dictionary, any isn't a conjunction, so how can it replace either in this sense? Maybe add some explanation, person who added this nonsensical information?

 * No, you say "choose any of these three things", but "choose either of these two things". Equinox ◑ 18:47, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

He's very good with children and no slouch around the house either
Slouch: somebody who will not or cannot do something well (informal) (usually used in negative statements) He's very good with children and no slouch around the house either Microsoft® Encarta® 2009 What meaning is used in this example? --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:51, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
 * It's the adverb use, as in the example given. Your sentence is unusual in that 'no slouch' is positive in meaning, and is coordinated with another positive term, so you would expect 'too', as in: good with children and helpful in the house too. But evidently the word 'no' makes it formally negative and therefore allows the negative form 'either'. --80.169.223.146 12:02, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

unexceptionable even when it applies to more than two clauses.
When either is used as a conjunction no paraphrase with any is available, and so either is unexceptionable even when it applies to more than two clauses. https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=either --Backinstadiums (talk) 19:14, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
 * However, OR (conjunction) Used to indicate the second of two alternatives, the first being preceded by either/whether --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:09, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
 * https://oed.com/oed2/00072739 --Backinstadiums (talk) 20:57, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

1. Any one (of two).
However, any is definited as "at least one" --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:38, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:finger

Translations need to be numbered. — Paul G 11:18, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

In Catalan and Spanish we call "finger" that way which goes from the airport direct to plane, I thought it as a literal translation, isn't it?
 * It seems like a pretty unusual meaning, but it does seem to be in use, so I've added it. Kappa 17:34, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Strange
Translations for English "finger" does not include a category for the actual, real object of "finger" but instead only has idiomatic translations... What? What are the translations for the basical real, original object, non-idiomatic, meaning of "finger???65.74.122.43 03:45, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
 * See finger/translations, which is linked in the translation section; the translations are in a separate page to reduce Lua memory usage. J3133 (talk) 05:32, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Talk:finger


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Talk:fog

splice fugue gap interface joggle join joint junction juncture rabbet seam slit

 * Sorry, is this a list of copyright-violation Mountweazels, in addition to the fog/grass thing? --Connel MacKenzie 23:36, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Possible connection between 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 / 🇨🇬 / 🇨🇬?
, any other HU editor --

Considering some of the derivatives of the PIE term and the apparent overlap both phonologically and semantically, I am very curious if any Hungarian etymology researchers have posited any connection between the 🇨🇬 / and the 🇨🇬? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 22:01, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

 * I think it's far too distant past without any record or attestation to venture beyond the realm of speculation. Of course, the ancestors of these language families may have had contact some 8-10-12 thousand years ago, they might even derive from a common proto-proto-proto-proto-something 20 or 50 or 100 thousand years ago, but there's hardly any way to make meaningful hypotheses. On the other hand, it's nice to collect "suspicious" instances, just in case some day they might accumulate and start to point at some distinct direction... Adam78 (talk) 22:13, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

 * There are other Hungarian terms described as deriving from PIE, such as, , . I was curious if this term  might have any similar derivational theories, but it appears not.  Cheers!  ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 01:05, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:fog


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Appendix talk:Jōyō kanji by reading

For completeness, it would be worth having the list of Toyo Kanji too, even though it's not so much different. — Hippietrail 12:19, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

title: Appendix talk:Jōyō kanji by reading


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päronträd

Noun

 * 1) pear tree

title: päronträd


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være

Etymology
All forms except the present are from, from , from , from. The present tense is derived from a different root:, from , which is also the origin of 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. In Scandinavian, the singular has taken over the stem of the plural (with -z- > -r-).

Verb

 * 1)  to be
 * 2)  to be, exist
 * 3)  to be
 * 4)  to be
 * 5)  to have
 * 1)  to be
 * 2)  to have
 * 1)  to have
 * 1)  to have

Conjugation
Note also archaic plural form (Vi ere - "We are")

Etymology 1
All forms except the present are from, from , from , from. The present tense is derived from a different root:, from , which is also the origin of 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to be

Etymology 2
From, probably ultimately from.

Verb

 * 1)  to sense or feel

Noun

 * 1) an existence in a location
 * 2) a place or location that someone or something can exist

title: være


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opmærksom

Etymology
From, from and the adjective forming suffix.

Adjective

 * 1) alert, attentive, mindful, observant, observing, watchful

title: opmærksom


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flere

Etymology
From, from , derived from , compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, which are used with both uncountable nouns (quantity) and countable nouns (number).

Adjective

 * 1) more
 * 2) several
 * 3) multiple
 * 4) others
 * 5) other
 * 6) any more
 * 7) any others
 * 1) other
 * 2) any more
 * 3) any others

Usage notes
"Flere", in the first sense, is only used about countable nouns. Use for uncountable nouns.

Adjective

 * 1)  (countable)

Pronoun

 * 1) more
 * 2) several (determiner also)

title: flere


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fleste

Adjective

 * de fleste -
 * de fleste -

title: fleste


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mulighed

Etymology
From. Compare to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) possibility
 * 2) opportunity
 * 3) chance
 * 4) alternative
 * 5) option
 * 6) possible

title: mulighed


text:
män

Adverb

 * 1)  just; only;

title: män


text:
mulig

Etymology
From late, from. Cognate to 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) possible, feasible

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) possible
 * så langt som mulig - as far as possible
 * så snart som mulig - as soon as possible (ASAP)

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Talk:end

I sketched five different meanings of the English noun. Obviously, the translation need not coincide for those meanings. Andres 13:13, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

The English verb has different meanings as a transitive verb and as an intransitive verb. Andres 13:13, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

at the end of the day
How is it most appropriate to add a reference from the end article to at the end of the day? I'm not too familiar with the template used at en.wiktionary.org. Thanks. --DenisYurkin 11:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

 * A link to at the end of the day should appear under the heading Derived terms. Jonathan Webley 11:51, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

end
Rfv-sense for 2 senses: (1) Extreme part, and (2) Extreme line. Does anyone know what these are supposed to mean? -- Ghost of WikiPedant 17:39, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

 * The end of something is the extreme part of it. My toe is the extreme part of my foot. I'm not sure about "extreme line". Equinox ◑ 18:47, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

 * Hm, is your toe the end of your foot or would it be better English to say that it's at the end of your foot? And does this "extreme part" sense differ significantly from the existing and much clearer defn2: "The final point of something in space or time"?  I think defn2 covers this meaning adequately. -- Ghost of WikiPedant 00:34, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

 * Maybe "extreme line" was intended to be an improvement on a definition relating to "limit, border". Whatever the intent, it fails to communicate it. BTW, MWOnline has 7 main senses, 17 total lowest-level senses for "end" (noun). DCDuring TALK 19:11, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

 * RFV failed. Equinox ◑ 00:26, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

RFV discussion: November 2013–June 2014
Rfv-sense I think that this sense is ambiguous, and it should be split into two different senses. I've already added my proposal, which is one sense for "final point" (e.g. the end of a movie), and one sense for "extreme point, edge" (e.g. both ends of a cable; burn the candle at both ends; hold the end of the thread). I haven't touched the original sense "extreme part", but I already tried to move some translations into the new senses. I have to admit I don't speak Mandarin or Ukrainian, but I'm pretty positive that the people who added "qualifier:edge" were thinking the same thing as I do. I'm not a native English speaker, so feel free to suggest a better formulation than "extreme point, edge". Additionally, you might consider adding a corresponding sense to the main part of the article. Jenniepet (talk) 22:35, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Which sense? I can't see a tagged sense in . Also, since you're not disputing its existence, rfv seems like the wrong forum; perhaps WT:RFC. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:43, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I think (s)he split the translation tables along the lines mentioned. But RfC is a better venue for this. Sometimes (often ?) spatial and temporal definitions are better separated. DCDuring TALK 16:13, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I removed the WT:RFV request, undid the changes I had made to the translation senses and used some qualifiers in the original translation sense. I will not be making a clean-up request.Jenniepet (talk) 21:59, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * As a clarification, the difference is not spatial versus temporal. In spatial use, there are two cases. Objects with a start and a finish, e.g. books, and objects with two ends (or more), e.g. thread, table. To give an example in a better known language, in French you would say la fin du livre (the end of the book) and un bout du fil (one end of the thread). Jenniepet (talk) 21:59, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

 * I would say that a book is temporal. --WikiTiki89 22:09, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * This is the kind of discussion that could continue without reaching an end.
 * A physical (spatial) path can be looked at in two ways, something with a beginning and an end (as when one is starting to take it) or with two ends (as when one is in the middle or when one is looking at it on a map). Purpose or goal is sometimes involved but I don't think it is implied by the word itself. In the case of a spatial application of the word end, the distinction is often not made or not relevant. For something temporal, normal discourse requires a distinction between a beginning and an end. That often corresponds to a purpose or an achievement. Of course end can have an essentially telic sense that is completely non-spatial and inherently temporal, in that in normal discourse a purpose or goal is always after the activity required to achieve it.
 * I think the question is whether there is an additional telic vs non-telic or spatial vs temporal distinction that would make a useful English distinction and/or help with clarifying translations. DCDuring TALK 22:45, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * One relevant distinction between the spatial and temporal is that a physical path has two ends either of which could be called a beginning. A period of time has one beginning and one end, which are not interchangeable in normal discourse. DCDuring TALK 22:58, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Closed. Untagged by nominator. — Ungoliant (falai) 22:14, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

to no end
I'd like to know what meaning applies in to no end "without success, or without achieving useful results" --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:39, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

at end of
Appearing in "'ge' sound at end of 'mortgage'" or "'it ' at end of sentence" --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:45, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

no end to
https://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=no%20end%20to --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:47, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

RFC discussion: November 2013–February 2021
This definition: "The final point of something in space or time."

The use of the word "final" is too temporal and telic. "Point" is too limiting, to an instant or an event. This definition doesn't even fit one of the usexes: "At the end of the story they fall in love".

Spatially, end can be a point, a line, an area, or a volume. As an area it could be as half of a total area ("the West End"). Temporally, it can be an instant or, usually, a period or a sequence of events, processes, or states.

Though I dislike the wording, Webster 1913 took pains with their first sense: "The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part."

MWOnline breaks this apart. DCDuring TALK 23:25, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Resolved, RFC template no longer present and the definition has been changed since. — surjection ⟨??⟩ 21:42, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

adjective
[before a noun final or ultimate:] The end result is the same. --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:45, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

at an end
The rivalry between the words is not yet at an end. --Backinstadiums (talk) 20:56, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Quotations of the purpose-related sense
Quotations for the purpose related sense from Wikisource: Dan Polansky (talk) 13:41, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
 * For what end should I toil?
 * For what end mercenary forces are necessary in free states
 * what we are, and for what end we are born
 * For what end, then, were the other creatures made?
 * For what end does baptism serve, according to him?
 * For what end do endowed universities exist?
 * But for what end do you pile up riches
 * To what end did the king give his patent for coining halfpence in Ireland?
 * Year by year, as commercial rivalry grows more acute, they become more intimately bound up with the prosperity and prestige of their mother-countries. And to what end? To exist as pledges of peace, auspicia melioris aevi, or to fall an easy prey to the power that is supreme at sea and can strike hard on land?
 * when I pause to think of these things, I ask to what end I have lived
 * To what end or purpose is all this wonderful strategy on the part of the bird?
 * But to what end, in many cases, this was designed, I am unable to discover
 * What is the end of our laughter and singing?
 * What is the end of this universe? Intelligence, is it not?
 * what is the end of these things except that we persuade men
 * We ought to consider what is the end of government, before we determine which is the best form
 * What is the end subserved by the union of sperm-cell and germ-cell?
 * Of what use or sense is an immortality of piggishness? What is the end? What is it all about?
 * What is the end and object of their toils?
 * The end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship

title: Talk:end


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elitær

Etymology
From, after. . Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) elitist

title: elitær


text:
menneske

Etymology
From, borrowed from , from , cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬 and late 🇨🇬 are also borrowed from Old Saxon). The noun is derived form the Germanic adjective, compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. This adjective is derived from the noun (🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) human, human being, man
 * 2) person, people

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  a human or human being; man
 * 2)  man
 * 3)  man
 * 4)  mankind's
 * 5) an individual, person; human being
 * 6) the sum of a human's characteristics
 * 7) a particular or specific person
 * 8) a non-specific person
 * 1)  mankind's
 * 2) an individual, person; human being
 * 3) the sum of a human's characteristics
 * 4) a particular or specific person
 * 5) a non-specific person
 * 1)  mankind's
 * 2) an individual, person; human being
 * 3) the sum of a human's characteristics
 * 4) a particular or specific person
 * 5) a non-specific person
 * 1) an individual, person; human being
 * 2) the sum of a human's characteristics
 * 3) a particular or specific person
 * 4) a non-specific person
 * 1) the sum of a human's characteristics
 * 2) a particular or specific person
 * 3) a non-specific person
 * 1) the sum of a human's characteristics
 * 2) a particular or specific person
 * 3) a non-specific person
 * 1) the sum of a human's characteristics
 * 2) a particular or specific person
 * 3) a non-specific person
 * 1) the sum of a human's characteristics
 * 2) a particular or specific person
 * 3) a non-specific person
 * 1) the sum of a human's characteristics
 * 2) a particular or specific person
 * 3) a non-specific person
 * 1) the sum of a human's characteristics
 * 2) a particular or specific person
 * 3) a non-specific person
 * 1) a particular or specific person
 * 2) a non-specific person
 * 1) a particular or specific person
 * 2) a non-specific person
 * 1) a particular or specific person
 * 2) a non-specific person
 * 1) a particular or specific person
 * 2) a non-specific person
 * 1) a non-specific person
 * 1) a non-specific person
 * 1) a non-specific person
 * 1) a non-specific person
 * 1) a non-specific person
 * 1) a non-specific person
 * 1) a non-specific person
 * 1) a non-specific person

Noun

 * 1) human, human being, man, Homo sapiens;  people

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Talk:opmærksom

Are the Danish word and the German word just cognates? Might it be that the Danish word is sort of a translation loan from German? Andres 13:42, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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Talk:human

Latin humanus as noun
Has Latin humanus really a noun meaning? Is it a medieval usage? Andres 14:02, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * According to apparently not, though it could be medieval (I don't have medieval Latin sources offhand to check with)  —Muke Tever

 * According to your source, humani in Lucretius' natura humanis omnia sunt paria could count as meaning 'men, mortals'. Andres 23:07, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Homo (sapiens)
Are these words related to human? Homo means wis or something in Greek. Smiddle /  T  C  @  18:01, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Both and  come from. (I'm sorry it took an entire decade for you to get an answer.) AutisticCatnip (talk) 11:19, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Second definition

 * 1) Having the nature or attributes of a human being

Would this cover things like "his story was very human"? That is emotional, causing empathy (etc.) I know I haven't expressed that too well. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:33, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

 * Why in English other beings "having the nature or attributes of a human being" (like Vulcans, Romulans, Trill) are not styled "human"; and instead "human" equates to "Earthling"?--Manfariel (talk) 14:34, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Pronunciation
The IPA pronunciation for human is described as. Unfortunately, the ç does not appear on the IPA page.

 * It is an IPA symbol, but nobody has bothered to include it in that particular page. It is a voiceless palatal fricative, like the German 'ch' in or the Japanese 'h' in hito. It is the palatalized version of /x/ (loch, machen, ach). —Stephen (Talk) 14:19, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Is there a citation for this pronunciation? I personally find the /ç/ quite surprising (I haven't ever heard of that consonant being a feature of GA or RP), so I believe it would be worthwhile to provide a source. AutisticCatnip (talk) 11:23, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

 * It isn't /ç/, but [ç], meaning that this is not a phoneme in English but an allophone of /h/ before /j/. And since it's not a phoneme, it's not usually included in IPA transcriptions of English. But there's nothing unusual about it; [ç] is the normal pronunciation in most English accents and that has been understood for a long time.
 * However, some speakers say, losing the [j]. In that case, [ç] should actually be considered a phoneme in its own right.

only human
be only human is an idiom, right? --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:21, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Etymology
References to humans as opposed to human beings became predominant in AmE about 1978 and in BrE about 1985. --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:35, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:human


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snitch

Etymology
Origin. Perhaps an alteration of,. Compare also 🇨🇬. Alternatively, perhaps from a dialectal variant of, from , from. More at.

Verb

 * 1)  To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.
 * 2)  To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.
 * 3)  To steal, quickly and quietly.

Synonyms

 * ,, , ; See also Thesaurus:steal
 * ,, ; See also Thesaurus:rat out

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:, šlohnout, , , čórnout
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Macedonian: кра́де
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:, ,

 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, , bonznout, bonzovat, donášet
 * Danish: stikke, sladre
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, , , , laverrella
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:, fare la spia, fare la soffiata
 * Macedonian: по́ткаже
 * Norwegian: sladre
 * Old English: meldian
 * Portuguese:, dedurar, xisnovar ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, ,

 * Czech:, donášet
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Spitzeldienste verrichten, Spitzeldienste erledigen
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: ,

Noun

 * 1)  A thief.
 * 2)  An informer, one who betrays their group.
 * 3)  A nose.
 * 4) A tiny morsel.
 * 5) A ball used in the sport of Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.
 * 1) A tiny morsel.
 * 2) A ball used in the sport of Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.
 * 1) A tiny morsel.
 * 2) A ball used in the sport of Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.
 * 1) A tiny morsel.
 * 2) A ball used in the sport of Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.
 * 1) A ball used in the sport of Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.
 * 1) A ball used in the sport of Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.

Synonyms

 * , ; See also Thesaurus:thief
 * ,, , , ; See also Thesaurus:informant
 * , ; See also Thesaurus:nose

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:, tyveknægt
 * Esperanto: stukaĉo
 * Finnish:, , kähveltäjä
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Macedonian: кра́дец
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 抓耙仔
 * Czech: práskač, ,, donašeč
 * Danish: stikker, forræder
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ; kantelupukki
 * French:, , , , , ,
 * Galician: delator, delatora
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: מלשין, שטינקר
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Macedonian: ко́дош, потка́жувач
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: melda
 * Polish:, (coll.)
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:,  ,

 * Galician: napia
 * Macedonian: нос
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:,  ,  ,

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Talk:brand

Brand new
PaulG - I would think "brand new" is directly related to "brand". I believe both derive from the practice of branding (i.e., burning, the original sense), as

 * Brand originally means "to burn".
 * Burning in a design is used to mark ownership, cattle branding surviving to this day.
 * Brand extends to denote any mark of ownership or origin (e.g., an engraved name of a manufacturer).
 * Brand new refers to an item that still clearly shows its brand mark.

The first three are well-known, and I can't see how the fourth can be unrelated. -dmh 14:36, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * I agree.  has "Brand-new is c.1570 and must have meant "fresh from the fire" (Shakespeare has fire-new)." —  folk etymologies tend to have pretty common debunkings, and I can't find any offhand.  But if there's evidence to the contrary, I'd like to see it (I love a good folk etymology)  :)  —Muke Tever 14:23, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * I recalled, perhaps incorrectly, that "brand new" was a variant (now the standard) form of an older form "bran new". I have no evidence to present, but would be interested to see what the OED has to say. — Paul G 15:30, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * I couldn't find anything authorative for "brand new" on line, but the link Muke cites looks better than what I gave -- though I might not be the first one to re-analyze "brand new" the way I did. FWIW, Dutch has "splinternieuw", which strikes me as very evocative, though I'm not sure of what.  In any case, it seems very unlikely that "brand new" is unrelated to the usual senses of "brand".

 * Then there's always the google test. "Brand new" gets over 5,000,000 hits, "bran new" gets about 11,000.  Given that the 'd' in "brand new" is liable to dissapear in speech, it seems very likely that "bran new" is just a more nearly phonetic spelling.

 * Finally, I don't see an obviously plausible etymology for "bran new" ("so new a grain that the bran is still on it" seems like a stretch), while "brand new" has (at least) one. "Fire new" in Shakespeare, while circumstantial, looks convincing to me. -dmh 16:04, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * My guess is that "bran new" may be a contamination of brand new with span new (meaning basically the same thing).  implies that this expression has been prone to contamination before (its example shows: spank-span-new + brand-span-new = brand-spanking-new).  Possibly supporting this is that "brand-span-new" itself only appears to exist on that page and pages quoting it, and the usual spelling is "bran-span-new".  —Muke Tever 17:28, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * E.M. Delafield has "bran-new" in 'Diary of a Provincial Lady' and related novels (early 1930s). I think the earlier comment re 'bran' and 'brand' being related to 'burn', and therefore to branding by hot iron to denote ownership etc. is most likely the true provenance, making both "brand new" and "bran new" correct. -MaryonJeane 13:55, 12 Feb 2008

Poetic sense
So, what about "brand" being a poetic term meaning "sword" or "blade"? --67.185.172.158 07:13, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Do you know of an example work that uses the word that way? Rod (A. Smith) 05:06, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

brand
Rfv-sense: (advertising) A product's attributes — name, appearance, reputation, and so on — taken collectively and abstractly.

I have added a sense built around "reputation", which may have been what was intended because the example would, IMO, better fit a sense like "reputation". Perhaps this is indeed a widely accepted sense in the world of advertising. DCDuring TALK 00:01, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
 * a) I think "identifying reputation" would add meaning. b) would "a population" sound better than "some population" or is this just because  I'm British :) —Saltmarshtalk-συζήτηση 06:43, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
 * "Some" seems better. Thanks. Note that I have removed the advertising context for some senses, because the terms seems to be in widening use in business and politics and among employees in reference to themselves. I am not sure about the true extent of this widening. I think that "identifying" places more emphasis on the referring quality of a brand in this usage. Just as name: means both one's identifying moniker and one's reputation, so too has brand come to have the same distinct senses. There are some differences in syntax: one has a "reputation for X"; one's "name means X". DCDuring TALK 10:51, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
 * RFV-failed / deleted as redundant. - -sche (discuss) 02:57, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

bran
bran-new reads "Archaic brand-new" --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:30, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

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fot

Etymology
, from, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  A foot appendage used for motion and support
 * 2) The use of one's feet to move or stand.
 * 3) An animal's track or prints.
 * 4) foot unit for measuring length
 * 5) square foot unit for measuring area
 * 6)  A metrical foot
 * 7) The bottom or foundation of something e.g. stairs:
 * 8) The foot leg-like support of a table or chair.
 * 9) The end of a bed or tomb where the foot rests.
 * 10)  An individual; a human.
 * 1) The end of a bed or tomb where the foot rests.
 * 2)  An individual; a human.

Usage notes
By far the most common plural form is ; is relatively rare, and  is usually only used for the unit of length.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  a foot
 * 2) a foot (unit of measurement = 12 inches)

Etymology
From, from , from. Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  a foot
 * 2) a foot

Etymology
From.

Germanic cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬. The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of Sanskrit, 🇨🇬 (genitive ); Doric , 🇨🇬 (genitive ).

Noun

 * 1) a foot, in the following senses:
 * 2)  an organ in humans and animals used for locomotion
 * 3) a unit of length, especially a third of a yard
 * 4) the base or bottom of something
 * 5)  a metrical foot
 * 1) the base or bottom of something
 * 2)  a metrical foot
 * 1) the base or bottom of something
 * 2)  a metrical foot
 * 1)  a metrical foot

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) foot

Descendants

 * Hamburgisch:
 * Westphalian:
 * Lippisch:
 * Ravensbergisch:
 * Westmünsterländisch:
 * Märkisch:
 * Ravensbergisch:
 * Westmünsterländisch:
 * Märkisch:

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) barrel, vat

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  a foot; the body part touching the ground while standing or walking
 * 2) a foot; the part of something which is in contact with the underlying surface
 * 3) a foot; the end opposite to the head or the top
 * 4) a foot (length measurement unit; with various definitions)

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) forest

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Talk:at

Regarding the Swedish vid, isn't that closer to the English by than it is to at? Freso 14:57, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Which of the meanings? There are in general no exact correspondences:
 * At the table = Vid bordet
 * At work = På jobbet

Prepositions are a pain in (*a part of the anatomy*) to get right between sv: and en: - probably true for other lang's as well, but these are the two I'm somewhat confident in. \Mike 17:12, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Isnt this bad English? Ending with a sentence with "in?"  Would "...these are the two in which I'm somewhat confident" be better?

 * This is the case with every language. The little words (prepositions, particles, articles, postpositions, etc.) are always very idiomatic and seldom very logical. If we included all the possibilities along with examples and explanations for all these words in all languages, the Translations section would become virtually unusable.
 * I think that only the words or forms that would normally be listed in a dictionary should be included in the Translations section of the At article, and then all of the examples and explanations should be placed on the various foreign-language pages that the different translations link to. For Swedish, this would mean that pages or sections would be needed for vid, på, hos, i, till, över and åt, and then all examples and notes should be located on those pages and sections. —Stephen 06:39, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

 * A little bit slow on the response here, but ... Prepositions tend to be complex, but not necessarily illogical. Lakoff et. al.'s concept of radial categories is particularly helpful (though not all-powerful) in such cases.  Separate translations are most helpful in teasing out meanings and conversely, a reasonably complete collection of senses should make the translations less ambiguous and thereby more useful.  In the case above, at in at the table is not the same as at in at work.  The first indicates a specific location as with at the stopsign or at the altar while the second indicates a general location associated with an activity, as with at school or at the office. --dmh 07:57, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

 * And actually, He's at work is distinct from He's hard at work on defining "at" (you can substitute office or school or temple or whatever for work in the first case but not the second.) --dmh 08:00, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

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Definition 3 isn't clear enough. It indicates something more like "aim" than just "direction", hence the huge differnce between "he threw a rock to me" and "he threw a rock at me" in English. — Hippietrail 15:08, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * Let's see if we can assemble a corpus of examples and then make some sense of it. In no particular order.

 * Look at me.
 * Turn left at the next stoplight.
 * We will meet at the pub.
 * I stayed at the pub after the meeting.
 * We will meet at one o'clock.
 * Come here at once.
 * He threw a rock at me.
 * He threw a rock to me.
 * He threw a rock toward me.
 * He came at me with a sword.
 * He came toward me with a sword.
 * He came to me with a sword.
 * at the side of the road
 * by the side of the road
 * on the side of the road
 * I was at the store.
 * I was at home.
 * I felt at home.

 * Surprisingly, the three senses given seem to cover all these, if we change the third sense to "indicating a target.''

 * The other angle is to compare with other prepositions:

 * Toward connotes a target, but not an intention to hit the target. Toward can be used with directions (toward the North).
 * To connotes a destination as opposed to target (you can drive to a town, but one does not normally drive at a town).
 * Others?

 * -dmh 18:01, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Ought not the use of at as an infinitive-marker, related to the infinitive-markers of the Nordic languages, be mentioned in an English definition? ''Þis ilk bok es translate into Inglis tong ''to rede for the love of Inglis lede, ''Inglis lede of Ingland, for the commun at understand

English missing terms
This is missing loads and loads of meanings in English. --Itkilledthecat (talk) 22:04, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Probably. It would be a great contribution to add and cite valid senses and to revise existing senses. Take a look at this site for a useful set of resources to study polysemic words, especially grammatical terms like this basic preposition. DCDuring TALK 23:45, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

they loosed the dogs on him
Can at replace on in they loosed the dogs on him? --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:33, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

A game at ___
In archaic English people would play a game at something (cards, football, crambo...) rather than a game of something. We don't cover this; could we, somehow? (It's not the same sense as "engaged in, in the process of" since the phrase is "a game at football", not e.g. "they were at football"; the game is not engaged in anything.) Equinox ◑ 22:07, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Each boy stole a glance at the other
What meaning is used in Each stole a glance at the other? --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:19, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

at the
We use at the to refer to public places where we get treatments, such as a dentist’s or doctor’s surgery, hairdresser’s or spa: While Liz was at the dentist, I went shopping. --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:27, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

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klonken

Noun

 * 1) quaffle ball used in Quidditch

title: klonken


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seeker

Etymology
From, (also , ), equivalent to. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) One who seeks.
 * 2) Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation.
 * 3) In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to to catch the snitch.
 * 1) In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to to catch the snitch.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: hledač,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: serĉisto
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * German:, , Sucherin
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐍉𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ζητητής
 * Hebrew: מחפש
 * Irish: sirtheoir
 * Macedonian: ба́рач, ба́рател, тра́гач
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: buscante
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene: iskalec, iskalka
 * Spanish:

 * Slovene: iskatelj, iskalka

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eten

Verb

 * 1) break, separate
 * 2) stop, interrupt

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  to eat

Etymology 2
Gerund of the verb.

Noun

 * 1) food
 * 2) dinner

Etymology
From, from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Nowegian ete, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb
(past singular eet, past participle eten, auxiliary verb hebben)

 * 1) to eat

Derived terms

 * Eten
 * opeten
 * övereten

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) to eat

Etymology
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1) To eat, devour
 * 2) To consume or have a meal
 * 3) To swallow, ingest
 * 4)  To derive might from something
 * 5) To gnaw, scrape at
 * 6) To destroy, devastate (a person or of an object)

Etymology
Equivalent to

Noun

 * 1)  ethene, ethylene

title: eten


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mugglare

Noun

 * 1) Muggle (Harry Potter)

title: mugglare


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det

Symbol

 * 1)  determinant function

Etymology
Shortening of dialectal (South Gheg), from archaic Arbëreshë, , from , from pre-Albanian *dʰéubʰetos, enlargement of , from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). Hyllested proposes a loanword from Greek δέλτα.

Noun

 * 1) sea

Article

 * 1)  the (used before an adjective preceding a noun)
 * huset - the house; det gule hus - the yellow house

Pronoun

 * 1)  that
 * 2)  it
 * 3)  it

Etymology
and.

Pronoun

 * 1)  it
 * 1)  it
 * 1)  it

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) it; third person singular, neuter gender. Nominative, accusative or dative.

Pronoun

 * 1)  that

Article

 * 1) the; only used if there is an adjective in front of the noun
 * huset: the house → det røde huset: the red house

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) it; third person singular, neuter gender
 * er det det det er - is that what it is

Article

 * 1) the; only used if there is an adjective in front of the noun

Determiner

 * 1) that;

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) finger

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  finger

Etymology
From, ‚ from , from , from , nominative and accusative singular neuter of.

Pronoun

 * 1) it; third-person singular, referring to nouns of neuter gender. Nominative, accusative or dative
 * 2) it; the impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement
 * 3) it; the impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject or object
 * 1) it; the impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject or object

Usage notes

 * Impersonal pronoun: This is not used to declare what time it is: instead use either an explicit klockan ("the clock") or either of den or hon.

Pronoun

 * 1)  that

Noun

 * 1)  id

Article

 * 1) the (when an adjective is used with a neuter gender noun in the definite –  is used for common gender nouns, and  for plural nouns, regardless of gender)

Usage notes
See the usage notes for, which explain how to express "the [adjective] [noun]."

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) finger
 * 2) toe

Related terms

 * (hand)
 * (nail)
 * , (foot)

Noun

 * 1) right (all senses?)

title: det


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diazotroph

Noun

 * 1) Any microorganism that can fix molecular nitrogen (N2).

title: diazotroph


text:
pão

Etymology
, from.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) bread
 * 2)  food, sustenance
 * 3)  an attractive or hot man
 * 4)  punch

title: pão


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User:Dcoetzee

I'm D Coetzee. On Wiktionary I mainly add illustrative images to entries. For more, see my Commons user page.

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User talk:Dcoetzee

w:User talk:Dcoetzee

Redirects
Hi! You may wish to examine Wiktionary's policies regarding redirects. They are quite different from those used on Wikipedia, and unlikely to change any time soon. But thank you for your contributions on this project! - Amgine/talk 04:36, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Amgine - I'm a bit confused, because I don't believe I've edited Wiktionary in about 5 years. Can you remind me what you're referring to? Derrick Coetzee 19:23, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

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bijection

Etymology
From, introduced by in their treatise .

Noun

 * 1)  A one-to-one correspondence, a function which is both a surjection and an injection.

Translations

 * Catalan: funció bijectiva, bijecció
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 一一映射,
 * Czech: bijekce
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: dissurĵeto, inversigebla funkcio, bijekcio
 * Estonian: bijektsioon
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Bijektion, bijektive Funktion
 * Greek: αμφιμονοσήμαντη αντιστοιχία
 * Hebrew: פונקציה חד-חד-ערכית ועל
 * Hindi: एकैकी आच्छादन
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: gagntæk vörpun
 * Ido: bijekto
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 전단사
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: bijecție, funcție bijectivă
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, бијекција
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Etymology
From +.

title: bijection


text:
surjection

Etymology
From, introduced by in their treatise . Ultimately borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  A function for which every element of the codomain is mapped to by some element of the domain; (formally) Any function $$f: X\rightarrow Y$$ for which for every $$y \in Y$$, there is at least one $$x \in X$$ such that $$f(x) = y$$.

Translations

 * Catalan: funció exhaustiva
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: surjekce
 * Estonian: sürjektsioon,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, surjektive Funktion
 * Greek:
 * Ido: surjekto
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish: suriekcja
 * Portuguese: sobrejeção
 * Romanian: surjecție, funcție surjectivă
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish: función sobreyectiva
 * Swedish:

Etymology
Borrowing from. Compare, , with the same second element but different prefixes.

title: surjection


text:
confluence

Etymology
From late, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
 * 2) The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river.
 * 3) The stream or body formed by the junction of two or more streams; a combined flood.
 * 4) A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
 * 5)  The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
 * 6)  A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.
 * 1) The stream or body formed by the junction of two or more streams; a combined flood.
 * 2) A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
 * 3)  The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
 * 4)  A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.
 * 1)  The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
 * 2)  A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.
 * 1)  The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
 * 2)  A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.

Translations

 * Aromanian: measticã
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Melanau: kala
 * Cornish: kemper
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: kunfluejo
 * Estonian: liitumiskoht
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: confluencia, mestas
 * German:
 * Gujarati: વેણી, સંગમ
 * Hebrew: מפגש נהרות
 * Hungarian:
 * Iranun: minanga
 * Irish: suaithneamh
 * Japanese: 合流点
 * Latin: confluens
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Manx: co-strooan
 * Maori: pūau, pūtahitanga, komititanga o ngā wai, pūruatanga
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: samløp
 * Nynorsk: samløp
 * Polish:, konfluencja
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: sútok
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, konfluens
 * Tamil:
 * Tulu: kudala
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:, cydlifiad
 * West Coast Bajau: boa' soang

 * Bulgarian:
 * Cornish: kemper
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Maori: tūtakitanga
 * Norwegian: konfluens
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: konfluens

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Category talk:French nouns

Is this really what "categories" are for? Do we really want dozens or hundreds of categories for each combination of language and part-of-speech?

If it's not a burden on the server then it probably is a better way of making indexes than manually trying to keep them in synch.

If it is a burden on the server then I would be against this sort of thing. — Hippietrail 23:01, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Number of entries?
This seems kind of pointless since there's already a generated number- removing it. Nadando 03:13, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

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Latino sine Flexione

Etymology
in 1903.

Proper noun

 * 1) An artificial language based on a simplified version of Latin without inflections; also known as Interlingua

title: Latino sine Flexione


text:
tongue-twister

Noun

 * 1) A phrase that is deliberately designed to be difficult to say correctly, usually because of varying combinations of similar phonemes.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَنَافُر
 * Aymara: laxra chinja
 * Azerbaijani: yanıltmac
 * Basque: aho-korapilo
 * Bavarian: Zungabrecha, Bappndralla
 * Belarusian: скорагаво́рка, быстрамо́ўка
 * Bulgarian: скоропоговорка
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 急口令
 * Hokkien: 繞口令, 桀口話, 謔喙訣
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tatar: tezaytım
 * Czech: jazykolam
 * Danish: tungebrækker
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: langrompilo
 * Finnish: kielivoimisteluloru,
 * French:
 * Galician: trabalinguas
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Zongabrecher
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: tungubrjót
 * Indonesian: pembelit lidah
 * Irish: rabhlóg, casfhocal
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Komi-Zyrian: кывбертлас
 * Korean: 빠른말, 잰말놀이
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: ātrruna, mēles mežģis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: deslengualengua
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Tungenbreker
 * Macedonian: брзозбо́рка
 * Maori: pepe takimanawa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tungekrøll
 * Nynorsk: tungekrøll
 * Occitan:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: trava-língua, trava-línguas
 * Romanian: frântură de limbă
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бр̀залица
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: jazykolam
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kitanza ndimi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pamilipit-dila, pampilipit-dila
 * Telugu: టంగ్-ట్విస్టర్
 * Turkish:
 * Udmurt: ӝогверан, кылтӥян
 * Ukrainian: скоромовка
 * Uzbek: tez aytish
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: cwlwm tafod
 * West Frisian: tongbrekkerssechje
 * Yiddish: גיכווערטל

title: tongue-twister


text:
ako

Noun

 * 1) parrot

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) I

Pronoun

 * 1) I; me

Etymology
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) I first-person singular pronoun

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) I; me

Noun

 * 1) acceptance; admission

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) I, me
 * 2) ; I am
 * 1) ; I am
 * 1) ; I am
 * 1) ; I am
 * 1) ; I am

Usage notes

 * Subject (direct) pronouns are most commonly placed after the verb, or the first noun of the nominal predicate that they modify. Pronouns in this position are almost always in their short form (in this case, ); the full form may be used to make the sentence sound more formal, or it may be placed before the verb or noun which gives the same effect.

Etymology 2
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)  my; mine
 * 2)  I; me
 * 1)  I; me
 * 1)  I; me

Noun

 * 1) parrot

Etymology
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  to thatch

Pronoun

 * 1) I

Etymology
From. .

Noun

 * 1) son

Etymology
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) I personal pronoun

Adverb

 * 1) like, as

Conjunction

 * 1) like, as

Etymology
From aku, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) I

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to learn

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) garlic

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) I

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) I first-person singular pronoun

Etymology
.

Conjunction

 * 1) if

Usage notes
Ako is used to express indicative mood; to express subjunctive mood, or  are generally used instead.

Etymology
.

Conjunction

 * 1) as
 * 2) like

Adjective

 * 1) your second-person singular possessive adjective

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * : I; me

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) act of assuming the responsibility, obligation, or duties

Noun

 * 1) penis

Etymology
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) I

Noun

 * 1) mortar and pestle

title: ako


text:
portare

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) to bring, fetch, take, carry
 * 2)  to transmit; to relay
 * 3) to propose
 * 4) to lead or drive
 * 5) to wear
 * 6) to bear; to feel; to harbor
 * 7) to have; to bear
 * 1) to lead or drive
 * 2) to wear
 * 3) to bear; to feel; to harbor
 * 4) to have; to bear
 * 1) to bear; to feel; to harbor
 * 2) to have; to bear
 * 1) to bear; to feel; to harbor
 * 2) to have; to bear
 * 1) to have; to bear
 * 1) to have; to bear

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1) to bring
 * 2) to carry

title: portare


text:
porta

Etymology
Borrowed from. See.

Noun

 * 1)  The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilum.
 * 2)  The foramen of Monro.

Etymology 1
, from, from the root.

Noun

 * 1) doorway, gateway
 * 2) door

Noun

 * 1) bigger entrance door of courtyard, pylon

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) door
 * 2) doorway
 * 3) gate
 * 4) entrance
 * 1) entrance
 * 1) entrance

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) parcel of land (with a house on it)
 * 2) hotel reception, reception desk, front desk
 * 3)  household, house one's own home

Etymology
, from the root, probably as a feminine nominalization of. .

Noun

 * 1) door

Etymology 1
From, from the root.

Noun

 * 1) gate
 * 2) door
 * 3)  port
 * 4)  goal

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) door

Etymology 1
From, from , from. Cognate with,.

Noun

 * 1) gate, especially of a city
 * 2) entrance, passage, door
 * 3)  way, means
 * 1)  way, means
 * 1)  way, means

Descendants

 * Balkan Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Italo-Romance:
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Oïl:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Sardinian:
 * Italo-Romance:
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Oïl:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Sardinian:
 * Italo-Romance:
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Oïl:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Sardinian:
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Oïl:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Sardinian:
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Oïl:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Sardinian:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Sardinian:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Sardinian:
 * Sardinian:
 * Sardinian:
 * Sardinian:

 * Borrowings

Etymology 2
Inflected form of.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) door

Etymology 1
From, from , from the root.

Noun

 * 1) door
 * 2) entrance
 * 3)  gateway
 * 4)  solution
 * 5)  port connector of an electronic device
 * 1)  solution
 * 2)  port connector of an electronic device
 * 1)  port connector of an electronic device

Noun

 * 1) entrance

Etymology 1
..

Noun

 * 1)  porthole

Etymology
Shortening of, from and.

Verb

 * 1) to forbid somebody to enter, e.g. a shop, a pub or similar (often due to bad behavior during a previous visit)

title: porta


text:
portabilis

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) portable, capable of being carried

title: portabilis


text:
yob

Etymology
Backslang for. The second sense was likely influenced by and/or.

Noun

 * 1)  A boy.
 * 2)  A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.
 * 1)  A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.
 * 1)  A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , pauv'type, , ,
 * German:, , , , , Rowdyin, , , , Hooliganin, Hool, Hoolin
 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, , , , ,
 * Swedish: ,

title: yob


text:
tropaeum

Etymology
From the.

Noun

 * 1) a trophy, victory memorial
 * 2)  a victory
 * 3) a mark, token, monument

Descendants

Via :

title: tropaeum


text:
triumphatorius

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) triumphant, triumphing

title: triumphatorius


text:
phantasticus

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) imaginary

title: phantasticus


text:
flighty

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions.
 * 2) (of a bird) That flies easily or often.
 * 3)  Swift.
 * 1)  Swift.

Translations

 * Asturian: antoxadiegu, antoxón
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: nestálý, přelétavý
 * Esperanto: facilanima
 * Finnish: kevytmielinen
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew: קַל דַּעַת
 * Irish: aerach, aidhmeannach, arduallach, giodalach
 * Ottoman Turkish: خفیف
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Welsh: ,

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: hyvä lentäjä
 * Irish: eitleach
 * Occitan: voladís, volaire
 * Spanish:

title: flighty


text:
whelp

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  *kʷelbos, of uncertain origin.

Noun

 * 1) A young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
 * 2)  An insolent youth; a mere child.
 * 3) * July 13, 1713,, The Guardian
 * That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.
 * 1) * October 22, 2011, Princess Luna, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "Luna Eclipsed"
 * Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!
 * 1)  A kind of ship.
 * 2) One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
 * 3) A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
 * 1) One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
 * 2) A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).

Derived terms

 * ,, (foxling)
 * ,, (foxling)

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:, lupido
 * Faroese: hvølpur
 * French:,  , louvetelle ,
 * Galician:
 * German:, Welpin
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σκύλαξ, σκύμνος
 * Hebrew:
 * Ido: ,
 * Latin: catulus, catellus
 * Low German: Welp, Wölp, Wülp
 * Old English: hwelp
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, caduelo, cadillo
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük:, lupül

Etymology 2
From, from , derived from.

Verb

 * 1)  To give birth.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: окучвам се
 * Catalan: ,
 * Danish: hvalpe, få hvalpe
 * Faroese: hvølpa
 * French:
 * German:, Junge werfen, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: להמליט
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Old English: hwelpian
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh:

Etymology 3
Variant of.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A  a puppy or a baby dog
 * 2) A whelp the young of other animals, especially canids and felids
 * 3) A whelp
 * 4)  An unknown kind of mechanical machine or system.

title: whelp


text:
swine

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , from an adjectival form of , equivalent to.

Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, and more distantly to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A pig the animal.
 * 2)  A contemptible person.
 * 3)  A police officer; a "pig".
 * 4)  Something difficult or awkward; a pain.

Usage notes
In its literal sense, swine is often used, like, as an uncountable plurale tantum: 200 head of swine.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Middle English: swyn
 * Ottoman Turkish: خنزیر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

title: swine


text:
draconic

Etymology 1
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Relating to or suggestive of dragons.

Etymology 2
From the Athenian lawmaker, known for making harsh laws.

Adjective

 * 1)   Very severe or strict; draconian.

Usage notes

 * Superseded by.

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) draconian

title: draconic


text:
cretin

Etymology
From, likely from , an Alpine dialectal form of , from in the lost sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”. .

Noun

 * 1)  A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
 * 2)  An idiot.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:idiot

Translations

 * Catalan: cretí,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: creitín
 * Lithuanian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: крѐте̄н
 * Roman:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:

 * Belarusian: крэці́н, крэты́н
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: cretí
 * French:
 * Georgian: კრეტინი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: kretinacho
 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: крете́н
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: крѐте̄н
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kritin
 * Spanish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, крети́нка

 * Ido:

Etymology
, from ; doublet of the inherited.

Noun

 * 1) idiot

title: cretin


text:
reave

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Germanic cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), and Old English past participle, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. Outside of Germanic, related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). See and.

Verb

 * 1)  To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
 * 2)  To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
 * 1)  To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.

Translations

 * Arabic: نَهْب بِالْإِعْتِدَاء
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Irish: creach
 * Polish:, ograbić, , splądrować
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: грабувати, плюндрувати, спустошувати

 * Ukrainian:, відбирати

Etymology 2
Alteration of by confusion with the above.

Verb

 * 1)  To split, tear, break apart.

title: reave


text:
finger-fumbler

Etymology
From finger and fumble.

Noun

 * 1) The sign language equivalent of a tongue-twister; a phrase that is very difficult to sign correctly.

title: finger-fumbler


text:
Rhymes:English/eɪpi

Pronunciation
-āpi, /-eɪpi/, /-eIpi/

Two syllables

 * crapy, crepey, crepy
 * grapey, grapy
 * rapey
 * scrapie

title: Rhymes:English/eɪpi


text:
Rhymes:English/eɪsi

Pronunciation
-āsi, /-eɪsi/, /-eIsi/

Two syllables

 * basi-
 * Basie
 * Casey
 * lacey, lacy
 * Macy
 * pacey, pacy
 * precis, précis
 * racy
 * Spacey
 * spacey, spacy
 * Stacey, Stacy
 * Tracey, Tracie, Tracy
 * Tracey, Tracie, Tracy

Three syllables

 * O'Casey

Four syllables

 * theocrasy (one pronunciation)

title: Rhymes:English/eɪsi


text:
Rhymes:English/eɪsti

Pronunciation
-āsti, /-eɪsti/, /-eIsti/

Two syllables

 * hasty
 * pasty (adjective)
 * tasty

title: Rhymes:English/eɪsti


text:
Rhymes:English/eɪvi

Pronunciation
-āvi, /-eɪvi/, /-eIvi/

Two syllables

 * ave (one pronunciation)
 * cave (interjection)
 * cavy
 * Davy
 * gravy
 * navy
 * wavy

Three syllables

 * Agave
 * agave

title: Rhymes:English/eɪvi


text:
Rhymes:English/eɪzi

Pronunciation
-āzi, /-eɪzi/, /-eIzi/

Two syllables

 * crazy
 * daisy, Daisy
 * dazy
 * gazy
 * hazy
 * lazy
 * Swayze

Four syllables

 * Bel Paese

title: Rhymes:English/eɪzi


text:
Talk:label

What does "identification" mean here? Does this definition say anything that the others do not? — Paul G 15:25, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

The noun translations need to be numbered. — Paul G 15:25, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

adjective (U.S.): approved
adjective (U.S.): using or involving the use of a prescription drug to treat a condition for which the drug is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Microsoft® Encarta® 2009 --Backinstadiums (talk) 19:51, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2021
rfv-sense In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription. - not even convinced this is a separate sense Notusbutthem (talk) 15:27, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

 * I've added several citations of labels in medieval art, either 2D art, or 3D sculpture/vases, which speak of "labels or scrolls", "a scroll or label", and, perhaps most clearly, "While word balloons had been present in Europe for some time, from the phylactery (inscribed scroll) seen in medieval art to the 'labels' or 'banners' of nineteenth-century English satirical illustrator George Cruikshank". It's possible this should be merged into some broader sense, though; I'm not sure. What does anyone else think? (I also added another missing sense.) - -sche (discuss) 01:09, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 19:39, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:label


text:
unco

Etymology 1
From, shortening of.

Adjective

 * 1)  Strange, weird.

Adverb

 * 1)  Very.

Etymology 2
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  Uncoordinated.

Translations

 * Maori: ninipa

Etymology
Borrowed from, and.

Noun

 * 1) ounce

Verb

 * 1)  to growl

Conjugation
No perfect is attested.

Etymology
Shortening of.

Adjective

 * 1) unknown, strange
 * 2) unusual, odd
 * 3) great

Adverb

 * 1) very

Noun

 * 1) Any strange person or thing; an oddity.
 * 2)  News.

title: unco


text:
dissimilar

Adjective

 * 1) Not similar; unalike; different.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:different

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: башҡа
 * Belarusian: непадо́бны, адро́зны
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, неприличащ,
 * Danish: ulig
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: malsimila
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: disimilar
 * Georgian: უცხო
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀνόμοιος
 * Irish: éagsúil, difriúil
 * Latin: dispār, dissimilis
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Slovene: nepodoben
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: несхо́жий, неподі́бний,

Noun

 * 1) That which is dissimilar to, or does not resemble, something else.
 * 2) * 2012, Kathleen Lennon, Margaret Whitford, Knowing the Difference: Feminist Perspectives in Epistemology (page 35)
 * Whether or not the primary function of a good metaphor is the appreciation of the similarity of dissimilars, the naturalist philosopher, reacting to Platonic transcendence, insists that
 * Whether or not the primary function of a good metaphor is the appreciation of the similarity of dissimilars, the naturalist philosopher, reacting to Platonic transcendence, insists that

Adjective

 * 1)  not similar

title: dissimilar


text:
Limburgian

Noun

 * 1) A native or resident from Limburg.

Proper noun

 * 1) The Limburgish language.

title: Limburgian


text:
Wiktionary talk:Community Portal

Various

 * Shouldn't Community Portal be moved to Community portal? Ncik 15:17, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I think some of the stuff at the Main Page can be moved here: it can be put here and removed at the main page. The main page should stick to what a user expects from a dictionary, and here we can have the stuff that an editor wants to see. Of course, there will be overlap, such as the new entries, for which I've just created a template. Guaka 18:22, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I would like to see a dedicated search page optimised for PDAs. PDAs are not broadband and the pages here take too long to load.

I would like to see links to related wiki projects - Wikipedia, any others.

Is there a Wiki Thesaurus ? We need one, instead of multiple antonyms for each Wiktionary entry.--Richardb 00:07, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

There is a Romanian version of the Wiktionary (ro.wiktionary.org). How can one add a link to it under 'other languages' on this page?

Is there a standard place to report acronyms? Thanks you in advance.

page reform
This page needs some colour! --Dangherous 19:48, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Granted, 70 odd days later --Dangherous 21:22, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Utilities
I have just finished deprecating Index to Internals in favour of Utilities. In the course of doing that, I came to realize that there is much duplication between this page and the utilities page. My merger of the other two pages was certainly with a view to avoiding needless duplications. Since Wiktionary is not paper we do not need to worry about space for storing duplicate material. Nevertheless, duplication tends to encourage divergent and unco-ordinated views where a person who is ignorant of a similar page unwittingly develops conflicting policies.

We need to find some co-ordination between this and the utilities page. My first impulse was to deprecate the entire utilities page, but it may be enough for this one to include the most common links while the utilities page includes those that have less demand. I'll wait a few days for comments before proceeding with this. Eclecticology 19:18, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

New project
I'm relatively new to Wiktionary, and I wasn't sure where to go to propose this new project, so I came here. I think we should consider having pages in Wiktionary which will be more-or-less completely equivalent (in terms of listing the words on one page with etymologies given, at the least) to those controversial lists in Wikipedia: "List of English words of French origin", "List of English words of Spanish origin", "List of English words of Sanskrit origin", etc. etc., which in the opinion of many, many editors would have a better place in Wiktionary. But the argument against that was that Wiktionary's format was inferior, because we couldn't list them all on one page ("one click, see 'em all"). Well, let's fix that, start a new project, and unburden Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not an etymological dictionary. Opinions? Alexander 007 06:53, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

 * They can argue what they want; Wikipedia can decide for itself what it will accept. We can generate these lists with "Categories" Eclecticology 12:43, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Spellcheck
The "Contact Us" section says, "For general comments/question, see our Beer parlour." Shouldn't that read comments/questions (multiple comments and multiple questions)? --Elkman 21:06, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

logo !!
guys, that logo really needs to change. the worst bit is the grey text at the top - a lot of people arent getting that that comes from a supposed prior definition of Wikipedia, and confuse this place with an encyc.

other than that, it's just not a very nice logo is it? suggest a competition like what was done on wikipedia. --131.111.8.97 16:01, 16 May 2006 (UTC) (w:User:Alfakim)

 * Comments are appreciated at Wiktionary/logo. --Connel MacKenzie 21:46, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

AMA
Does anyone object to me starting a chapter of the AMA? Geo.plrd 21:34, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

 * The AMA? Sorry, we're tring to write a dictionary here...  --Connel MacKenzie 21:39, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Sorry,I meant Association of Members Advocates. Are there any objections or comments?Geo.plrd 21:42, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Do we need it? We don't have dispute resolution/ mediation/ arbitration/ mentorship/ probation/ conflict resolution/ request for comment/ surveys/ whatever Wikipedia keeps inventing. We don't even have userboxes. In that aspect, Connel's comment is correct. — Vildricianus 21:54, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * If these features like dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration, and others aren't needed or wanted in your community, it's worth discussing why. Each platform or community has its unique needs, and open conversations about their relevance can help shape the community's direction. Reelssaver (talk) 17:16, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

To do list
I just finished putting together a Wiktionary to do list based off Wikipedia's. I sincerely urge you to give your thoughts and ideas on it 'cause Rome wasn't built by one person. Foxjwill 22:10, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Spanish Translation Project
I have no idea where to put this in here. It needs to get a link on a well trodden page so that people will know that it exists and be able to contribute.

My idea is to link to a "Translation" page will all the translation project such as that and translation of the week.

Any help is a appriciated.

Bearingbreaker92 03:03, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Catching up with policy
Looking for an overview of policy, it was confusing to follow the "obvious" link to such from the front page (Wiktionary Policies- a list of all policy documents. Both established policies, and policies in development) to get presented with a big "nominated for deletion" scrawled over the top of the page.

I'd suggest removing this entry until and unless the CFD fails, and making the following one more clearly offer what I was looking for; something like:

 * Policies and Guidelines - an overview.

Hv 11:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Thank you. Yes, the bad link has been removed.  --Connel MacKenzie 14:36, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Text Speak Wiktionary
I don't know where to put this so I'm putting this here: Should there not be a text speak Wiktionary? It's almost a full language and would help people find what a word is in Txt speak?

 * See Category:Text messaging for some txt speak --Keene 16:53, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Txt spek Wiktionary
Should dere not B a txt spek Wiktionary? it full lingo u no?

 * See Category:Text messaging for some txt speak --Keene 16:53, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

New redesign needed
After the success of the new Main Page, this page would benefit from an overhaul. It's been like this for 2 years, and there's lots of stale links and less-than-helpful descriptions. Anyone interested? --Keene 03:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I quite like the appearance of it, so it would only be the links that need changing, though in several cases it may well be that the page at the other end of the link needs changing. I suppose it reflects well on the community that we concentrate so exclusively on the dictionary - but it is nice to keep the site running smoothly too. Conrad.Irwin 09:41, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I would recommend making a Medical wikitionary project
Medical dictionary would be great to have as free open source dictionary. I think it is a valid project if anyone is up for the challenge. I also think there should be a way to only search specific dictionaries - like only search the medical wikitionary.
 * I don't think we need a specific medical dictionary as Wiktionary can (and does) contain medical words. The think that needs to happen is for people to put at the start of medical definitions: this then adds the word to Category:Medicine. I don't think a special medical search is warranted as searching for a medical word will automatically return it. Conrad.Irwin 07:22, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Where do we put sources?
and references?150.140.227.137 16:34, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia

please add firefox search form extension suggestion
.-Qdinar (talk) 08:24, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Community portal or Community Portal?
The page is named "Community Portal" but the link in the main menu is to "Community portal". Shouldn't one of these change? Nurg (talk) 22:06, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

 * Seconded! --2001:14BA:804D:9F00:0:0:0:5D9 06:15, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Colours
I remember some dude put loads of colours on this page. It used to look good, man! WTF happened? --SimonP45 (talk) 02:48, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

lexicographic approach to learning
Hi, one the main uses of a lexicographic resource is that of educational learning, therefore it would enrich Wiktionary to create a discussion room to ask for advice from advanced users regarding the learning process itself. The feedback would enable discovering current weaknesses and so improve Wiktioanry on the whole. --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:24, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * What exactly do you mean? Asking questions about a particular language? — Ungoliant (falai) 12:27, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Not necessarily, but strategies to learn chinese characters and their respective pronunciation (homophones), or arabic broken plurals (unpredictability). Especially, personal advice from those who are already fluent, what they'd do differently knowing what they know now, mistakes to be avoided, grammatical aspects which the entry of a certain term doesn't clarify, etc. --Backinstadiums (talk) 13:14, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I think you can use the Tea Room and the Information Desk for these types of question, but having a special page wouldn’t hurt. — Ungoliant (falai) 13:31, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Then, I'd like to know the procedure to create such a page --Backinstadiums (talk) 07:02, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Make your case in the Beer Parlour; receive ideas and feedback. When you are pleased with the results of the discussion, create the page like any other and link to it from the community portal and main page. — Ungoliant (falai) 14:51, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Great idea! Creating a discussion room for educational learning on Wiktionary is a smart move. It can help users get advice from advanced learners and improve the overall quality of the resource. I'm all for it! Reelssaver (talk) 16:25, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

çapulcu
Hi! çapulcu is the word in Turkish from which chapulling (Q13417998) is derived.Please create thais item. Thabks abd best regards no bias — קיין אומוויסנדיק פּרעפֿערענצן — keyn umvisndik preferentsn talk contribs 04:35, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Category moved
Category:Wiktionary:Reference has recently been moved to Category:Wiktionary reference, so the link given under Reference should be updated accordingly. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 21:01, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Link to style guide
Could someone add a link to Style guide to the policy section? I was looking for it and had trouble finding it. A link to Category:Wiktionary policies could also work, and might be a good idea regardless. Thanks! -- Beland (talk) 18:39, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Theknightwho vandalizing articles to make a point / teach me a lesson.
I was going to be polite and say that they were making POINTy edits, but they object that POINT is not a thing on WT. So that leaves simple vandalism. In this case it's for Charonian, but they have a history of this kind of behaviour.

, instead of edit-warring over introducing purposeful errors, as if WT were a bad joke, would you please tell me what I'm doing wrong, e.g. by stating or providing a link to the guideline. Not that you make some oblique mention in the past, but for the specific instance of formatting that you object to.

In this case, Theknightwho is claiming that a synonym, formatted they way they themselves format synonyms, is formatted incorrectly, and have moved it up specifically under 'noun' despite it being a general synonym -- the illustration for it is actually an adjective.

This trollish behaviour is getting extremely tiresome.

Theknightwho knows the formatting guidelines far better than I do. But fixing formatting is not an excuse for introducing errors. Better to have a correct article poorly formatted than a perfectly formatted article that is incorrect. kwami (talk) 23:58, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

 * I reverted your nonstandard formatting, as I have already explained to you. We have a standard way of laying out entries. Theknightwho (talk) 00:00, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * You have not "reverted" my formatting. There's nothing to revert to. You've corrected it, but you've made factual errors while doing so. Instead of fixing your own errors, you've doubled down on them, as if formatting overrides content. kwami (talk) 00:03, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I didn't make any factual error. If you want a synonym to apply to two parts of speech, you need to mention it multiple times, or it is at best ambiguous. If you wanted it to apply to both, the obvious solution would have been to put it in-line under both after I amended it. Instead, you got defensive and decided to start flinging shit, which seems to be your MO. Theknightwho (talk) 00:09, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * You claimed that Charontian was only a synonym for the noun Charonian. That is a factual error. Arguing that you're not doing what you're doing is beneath you, but then that seems to be your MO. It would also help if you were consistent with your own usage. I can copy your formatting, and you will still edit-war with me over it (while introducing purposeful errors) because you claim that your own formatting is bad. That's not professional.
 * Anyway, User:Fytcha played the adult and fixed the article, which would've taken you all of 2 seconds to do yourself, and only a few more seconds to explain to me so I would know to do it. kwami (talk) 00:39, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I didb't claim it was "only" anything - I just can't mind-read that you intended a single synonym section to refer to multiple parts of speech, given that it's inherently ambiguous to lay it out that way and something that we don't do unless absolutely necessary. That's to say nothing of the fact I had to clear up your mess in the first place, given you seemed to just be using templates at random instead of making the effort to find out what each one is for.
 * Accusing me of making purposeful mistakes is utterly weird, by the way. It's not that I secretly think you're right and want to piss you off - I just think you're a blowhard who can't accept fault. The only reason your messes have been flying under the radar is because you're autopatrolled - something you definitely shouldn't be. Your comlete inability to handle disagreement is not doing you any favours, either. Theknightwho (talk) 00:52, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Accusing me of making purposeful mistakes is utterly weird, by the way. It's not that I secretly think you're right and want to piss you off - I just think you're a blowhard who can't accept fault. The only reason your messes have been flying under the radar is because you're autopatrolled - something you definitely shouldn't be. Your comlete inability to handle disagreement is not doing you any favours, either. Theknightwho (talk) 00:52, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Upcoming vote on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct

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Close all those tabs
On mobile, there is no point in making all the tabs open in a page. Nobody can read all the way down the bottom of most pages at all because they're all filled with open tabs. Okay, they're not called tabs they're called sections. Yes you can read all the way down, but it's a pain. And yes you can close each one but it's also a pain. If there's a preference to do this, then tell me. Jidanni (talk) 02:33, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

 * It's a known issue. The MediaWiki developers are not interested in fixing it and any solution we could make without them would be a hack that is subject to break at any time. — S URJECTION / T / C / L / 08:20, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * You can usually collapse or hide sections to make your reading experience smoother on mobile. Look for an arrow or icon next to the section title to do this. If not, it might be the app or website design you're using. Check for user preferences or settings related to section viewing. Reelssaver (talk) 17:03, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Edit request: Link to Todo
Edit request: Todo should be listed under Things to do. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 20:14, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

How to make a page
Hello I joined Wikipedia today and I want to know how to make a page.I’m not asking for all the thing I need to know I just want the basics. Rylan Huey (talk) 15:42, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

 * To learn how to make a page, go to >read >edit >>new page >learn. It will have all the instructions you need. 207.62.170.210 04:24, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Label template - Australian English varieties
Can an admin have a look at this talk page thread? 153.107.26.53 03:31, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Loi Punjabi surname
The surname Loi is predominantly associated with the Sikh Punjabi Jatt community, specifically within the Jatt caste. Originating from North East Punjab, the Lois constitute a relatively small Jatt clan known for their prowess in agriculture. Their heritage is deeply intertwined with the land, and they have earned a reputation for being robust and skilled farmers, adept at cultivating the fertile fields of Punjab. Within their community, the Loi surname carries a sense of pride and tradition, reflecting their longstanding connection to the agrarian lifestyle and the enduring resilience of the Jatt caste. Singhgill120203030 (talk) 18:21, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

title: Wiktionary talk:Community Portal


text:
theodicy

Etymology
, from +,  in his 1710 work  (Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil), commonly known as Théodicée.

Noun

 * 1)  A justification of a deity or of particular attributes of a deity; specifically, a justification of the existence of evil and suffering in the world; a work or discourse justifying the ways of God.
 * 2) * 2000 [Kluwer Academic], Charles Seymour, A Theodicy of Hell, 2010, Springer, Softcover reprint, page 195,
 * In general, my theodicy of hell is more congenial to those denominations with less rigidly defined doctrinal systems.
 * Does this mean I have allowed theodicy to encroach on theology, contrary to my avowed purpose?

Translations

 * Catalan: teodicea
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 神义论,
 * Czech: theodicea
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: teodiike
 * Finnish: pahan ongelma
 * French:
 * Georgian:, თეოდიკეა
 * German:
 * Hungarian: teodícea, teodicea, theodicea,, istenigazolás
 * Italian:
 * Occitan: teodicea
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: teodiceia
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: teodicéproblemet
 * Tagalog: palabathalaan, teodisea
 * Turkish:

title: theodicy


text:
deus ex machina

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1)  Any resolution to a story that does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and that is so unlikely that it challenges suspension of disbelief, and presumably allows the author, director, or developer to end the story in the way that they desired.
 * 2)  A contrived solution to a problem, relying on an agent external to the situation.
 * 3)  A deity in Greek and Roman drama who was brought in by stage machinery to intervene in a difficult situation (i.e., to resolve a crisis, or untangle issues surrounding it, a character logically expected to do so).
 * 4)  A machine used to bring an actor playing a god onto the stage, either up through a trapdoor or (e.g. by crane) from above.
 * 1)  A contrived solution to a problem, relying on an agent external to the situation.
 * 2)  A deity in Greek and Roman drama who was brought in by stage machinery to intervene in a difficult situation (i.e., to resolve a crisis, or untangle issues surrounding it, a character logically expected to do so).
 * 3)  A machine used to bring an actor playing a god onto the stage, either up through a trapdoor or (e.g. by crane) from above.
 * 1)  A deity in Greek and Roman drama who was brought in by stage machinery to intervene in a difficult situation (i.e., to resolve a crisis, or untangle issues surrounding it, a character logically expected to do so).
 * 2)  A machine used to bring an actor playing a god onto the stage, either up through a trapdoor or (e.g. by crane) from above.
 * 1)  A machine used to bring an actor playing a god onto the stage, either up through a trapdoor or (e.g. by crane) from above.

Usage notes

 * Rarely, the plurals dii ex machina, di ex machina, dii ex machinis and di ex machinis are found.
 * The plurals ending in literally translate to “gods from a machine”, whereas the plurals ending in  literally translate to “gods from machines”; in their usage, these plurals generally retain this distinction in sense, however figuratively.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 機械降神
 * Finnish: keinotekoinen juonenkäänne, deus ex machina
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός
 * Modern:
 * Italian: deus ex machina
 * Japanese:, デウスエクスマキナ
 * Korean: 데우스 엑스 마키나
 * Marathi: डेउस एक्स मॅकिना
 * Norwegian: reddende engel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: де́ус экс ма́хина, бог из машины, (lit: a grand piano in the bush)
 * Spanish: deus ex máchina
 * Swedish: räddande ängel,

 * Arabic: الحَلّ مِنَ السَّمَاء
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ihmeratkaisu
 * Italian: deus ex machina
 * Japanese: 急場しのぎ
 * Marathi: डेउस एक्स मॅकिना
 * Polish:
 * Russian: счастли́вая развя́зка

Etymology
. lit. 'god from the machine'.

Noun

 * 1) deus ex machina deity in Greek and Roman drama who was brought in by stage machinery to intervene in an inextricable situation

Etymology
, itself a calque of.

Noun

 * 1)   contrived plot resolution

title: deus ex machina


text:
chá

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) plain
 * 2) mesa; plateau

Noun

 * 1)  foilage; leafage

Verb

 * 1) to need
 * 2) must

Etymology
, uncertain whether via Portuguese or later lent to Portuguese.

Noun

 * 1) tea plant
 * 2) tea infusion made with tea leaves
 * 3) any drink made with an infusion of medicinal plants
 * 4) a late afternoon meal
 * 1) any drink made with an infusion of medicinal plants
 * 2) a late afternoon meal
 * 1) a late afternoon meal
 * 1) a late afternoon meal
 * 1) a late afternoon meal
 * 1) a late afternoon meal

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) tea plant, a bush whose leaves are used to make tea
 * 2)  tea drink made by infusing parts of plants
 * 3) a late afternoon meal
 * 4)  any drug made by infusing a substance

Etymology 1
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬 (as in ).

Noun

 * 1) price

Verb

 * 1) to ask for something's price
 * 2) to bargain
 * 1) to bargain
 * 1) to bargain

Noun

 * 1) mount (object on which another object is mounted)
 * 2) frame
 * 1) frame

Adjective

 * 1) not firm; weak; flimsy; frail

Adjective

 * 1) (before nouns, especially noun phrases with words of number) numerous

Etymology 5
From.

Adjective

 * 1) fake; not real

Particle

 * 1)  that's all; merely; only; just

title: chá


text:
brand spanking new

Etymology
Apparently a, with spanking coming to serve as an intensifier.

Adjective

 * 1)  Utterly new, as new as possible.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:new

title: brand spanking new


text:
public policy

Noun

 * 1)  The set of policies (laws, plans, actions, behaviors) of a government; plans and methods of action that govern that society; a system of laws, courses of action, and priorities directing a government action.
 * 2) * 1993 Henry H. Perritt, Jr. "Knowbots, Permissions Headers and Contract Law", paper for the conference on Technological Strategies for Protecting Intellectual Property in the Networked Multimedia Environment
 * "The licensee exceeding the use restrictions would argue that it violates public policy to enforce the restrictions and therefore that state contract law may not impose liability for their violation."
 * 1) * 2001 Ohio Revised Code TITLE [41] XLI LABOR AND INDUSTRY» CHAPTER 4113: MISCELLANEOUS LABOR PROVISIONS 4113.62
 * "Construction contract provisions against public policy.
 * "(A) Any provision of a construction contract, agreement, or understanding that waives rights under a surety bond is void and unenforceable as against public policy."
 * 1) * 2001 Plosker, JA "Privacy on thin ice? Considering the California Court of Appeal decision in Johnson v. Superior Court". Jurimetrics 2001 Fall;42(1):73-83
 * "In Johnson v. Superior Court, the California Court of Appeal determined that a provision of a contract limiting the discovery of the identity of a sperm donor was against public policy and that the privacy interest did not protect against disclosure of this information. Although the court's analysis of the public policy exception to the enforcement of contracts was unnecessary, the opinion properly balances California's and petitioners' interests against an anonymous donor's privacy right."

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 公共政策
 * Finnish: yhteiskuntajärjestys
 * French: politique publique
 * Georgian: საჯარო პოლიტიკა
 * Icelandic: opinber stefna, allsherjarregla
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: política pública
 * Thai:

title: public policy


text:
hierographicus

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) hierographic, of sacred writing

title: hierographicus


text:
cosmographia

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A description of the universe, a.

title: cosmographia


text:
cosmographus

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A cosmographer; one who describes the universe.

title: cosmographus


text:
prognosis

Etymology
, itself borrowed from, from +.

The  is a.

 * 🇨🇬 (modern 🇨🇬, )

Noun

 * 1) A forecast of the future course or outcome of a situation based on what is presently known; a prediction.
 * 2)  A forecast of the future course or outcome of a disease or disorder based on current medical knowledge.
 * 1)  A forecast of the future course or outcome of a disease or disorder based on current medical knowledge.
 * 1)  A forecast of the future course or outcome of a disease or disorder based on current medical knowledge.
 * 1)  A forecast of the future course or outcome of a disease or disorder based on current medical knowledge.
 * 1)  A forecast of the future course or outcome of a disease or disorder based on current medical knowledge.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: pronòstic
 * Danish: prognose
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: prognozo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: პროგნოზი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: tairngreacht
 * Latvian: prognoze
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: прогно́за
 * Norman: prog'nose
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: prognose
 * Nynorsk: prognose
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: prognose,
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh:, argoel

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: pronòstic
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: prognose
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: πρόγνωσις
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: horfur,
 * Irish: prognóis
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh:
 * Latvian: prognoze
 * Macedonian: прогно́за
 * Norman: prog'nose
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: prognose
 * Nynorsk: prognose
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: prognose,, pronóstico
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: การพยากรณ์โรค, คำพยากรณ์โรค
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh: prognosis

 * Estonian: ,

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) forecast, prediction

title: prognosis


text:
syzygia

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  syzygy, conjunction

title: syzygia


text: cinyphes

title: cinyphes


text:
hieroglyphicus

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) hieroglyphic

title: hieroglyphicus


text:
gryps

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) griffin

Etymology
, from. Alternatively,.

Noun

 * 1)  secret message

title: gryps


text:
tatterdemalion

Etymology
First attested circa 1608. An early spelling was tatter-de-mallion, rhymed with. The first part of the word is tatter; the origin of the second part is unclear; Ebenezer Cobham Brewer suggested it might be from.

Adjective

 * 1) Tattered.

Noun

 * 1) A person with tattered clothing.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: trhan
 * Estonian: kaltsakas
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Lithuanian: apdrìskėlis, apiplyšėlis, draiskalius, drìskius, drìskė, nudriskėlis, nuskùrėlis, nuskùrėlė, skarmalius, skudurius, suplyšėlis
 * Polish: łachmaniarz,, , , ,
 * Swedish:

title: tatterdemalion


text:
cyclopean

Adjective

 * 1)  Suggestive of a cyclops.
 * 2)  Fitted together of huge irregular stones.
 * 3)  Massive in stature.
 * 4) * 2006,, "Salutation to Walt Whitman," in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, edited and translated by , Penguin, pp. 198-9,
 * You were cyclopean and muscular, not pretty, / Yet your attitude toward the world was feminine, / And for you each leaf of grass, each stone and each man was the Universe.
 * See also quotation under cyclopian.
 * 1)  Created by combining two images.

Translations

 * Catalan: ciclopi
 * Polish:
 * Turkish:

title: cyclopean