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I noticed that on the page forvicarious, both the Received Pronunciation & the General American pronunciations use /ɛəɹ/. if I am not mistaken, this is only true in RP, as in GA it is pronounced /ɝ/. if that is true, then why isn't the GA and RP pronunciations split in words that use /ɛəɹ/? Also, in GA, should /ɛr/ or /ɝ/ be used?
Thank you for your time.Quavix621 (talk)03:09, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
My German friend asked me (very indirectly) why isn't "disappoint" the opposite of "appoint"? I could only say "IT MEANS POINT LIKE IN PUNKT AND PUNCTUATION", and make a guess that "appoint" is putting somebody in a POINT which is a place or role! So I obviously went todésappointer and thenceappointer: there is no French sense that convinces me "this is the opposite of disappointment". Somebody convince me. How is "appoint" really like "disappoint"?2A00:23C5:FE1C:3701:780C:E197:3C9:DD4422:51, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
Hi, not sure how else to mark that this meaning doesn't appear to come up anywhere. For wo (English meaning), it states "A falconer's call to a hawk." I can't seem to find this anywhere online. Page atwo#English. Thanks!2A02:C7E:5F26:A100:9137:C35C:8842:C86F22:25, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
{{rfv-sense}} to the line in question, and post it toRequests for verification/English. This was added 19 years ago when ourCriteria for inclusion were different. It looks like it came from the Oxford English Dictionary.Here is the entry in an out-of-copyright edition]. You'll note that it's part of longer utterances like "wo ho"- these can be found here and there in older books and in poetry (Sa ho-sa ho-wo ha,Sa ho-sa ho-wo ha (quoted cries not in Shakespeare),wo ho hoWo ho ho. I could be wrong, but I don't think that would be enough for the single word.Chuck Entz (talk)00:42, 8 November 2025 (UTC)Hi, I started a new account, going byDijacz. Can I get the same perms on there as I have on this account? For all intents and purposes, it's just a username change. Same person, same domain of specialization. And I'm getting tired of having to do captchas every other edit because I'm adding a dictionary reference to an entry or something. Also page moving perms as well. Thanks.Insaneguy1083 (talk)05:07, 8 November 2025 (UTC)
Adverbsnorth /south /west /east are all currently set to(not comparable).
But shouldn't they use{{en-adv|+further}}?
As in "Latvia liesnorth of Lithuania, but Estonia liesfurther north than Latvia." -Vuccala(talk)12:42, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
DoneVuccala(talk)20:31, 12 November 2025 (UTC)It's my first time seeing this error and I cannot seem to find a fix for this, for example in日 - Wiktionary, the free dictionaryKlahrinzWBC (talk)19:04, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
.file.exists for each page instead of.exists. –wpi (talk)02:43, 12 November 2025 (UTC){{Han etyl}} (or at least of the first part of it, that shows images of the historical forms of the character), where editors could manually specify what images to show, and the template wouldn't need to use Lua at all, thus avoiding running into Lua problems?- -sche(discuss)23:21, 13 November 2025 (UTC)Hi @GinormousBuildings, @Sponge2490, @Rentangan, @TNMPChannel, @Xbypass.
Can you helpMickaël with his question?
How to apply affixes to plural? I would guess it should be applied to the very first term:
"buku-buku" -> "PREFIXbukuSUFFIX-buku"
"terung-terung ungu" -> "PREFIXterungSUFFIX-terung ungu"Renek78 (talk)05:34, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
I'm trying to make a number menu as seen in for example English entryeight or German entryacht, but for numbers in Ket (since we don't have that yet.) Can someone help me?Chrysanthemum1319 (talk)13:41, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
additional_number_types, something like this right underlocal numbers = export.numbers:export.additional_number_types = {{key = "counting_form", after = "cardinal"},{key = "multiplicative", after = "distributive"},}Why does the below not produce a proper quotation?
JulieKahan (talk)14:06, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
{{quote-book}}.Vininn126 (talk)14:08, 23 November 2025 (UTC)A month or so ago, I've created this pageкавет, but now I realize I've made a mistake, it should beкагавет instead. кавет itself is not a word/verb, so I cannot rewrite the page. Can I rename this page?Chrysanthemum1319 (talk)16:36, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
{{d}}, since deleting such redirects is non-controversial.Chuck Entz (talk)16:50, 23 November 2025 (UTC)I have a Midland accent and live in an area with many Southern and GenAm speakers. From all evidence I have in this area, none of them pronounce the vowel in "thing" or "sing" as /ɪ/, as Wiktionary reads, but rather /i/. This difference is demonstrated by the minimal pairs "sin" /sɪn/ & "scene" /sin/, and "scene" (not "sin") & "sing" /siŋ/.Soweli Rin (talk)22:32, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
please review the critiques of my recent contributions to the Latin wiktionary by the new reviewer, S. Have made many edits in the past without these types of responses. Am open to constructive criticism of course but the personal flavoring of this reviewer: You can be read for yourself... My intent on contributing to the Latin wiktionary is to expand upon the limitations of the current book sources so as to fit with modern translations of Latin prior to 1600. Admittedly my mother tongue is not Latin but whose is? With this type of response, you will start to lose contributors: Threatened with banning for trying to be forthright in referencing the actual sources in the editing process. Stating the obvious gaps in the printed sources that has led to my editing attempts, admittedly beginner grade. But all to what I perceive as the overarching goal of Wikimedia, to capture knowledge in its most complete form without self-aggrandizement. Trolling does not seem to be an appropriate response to well-meaning attempts. Perhaps S. has too much on his plate which can be read between the lines. Please let me know if this is now the acceptable means of critique so that I can stop contributing and relieve S. of any further expense of his/her valuable time. wlWilhelmlux (talk)03:16, 24 November 2025 (UTC)
About droughts~2025-36737-82 (talk)04:30, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
I'm currently interested in expanding English Wiktionary's coverage of Estonian terms (my native language), which currently consists of adding any words I can think of that don't have an article already. So far, this has been relatively smooth-sailing (with a lot of cross-referencing), but etymologies are something that I still don't quite know how to find. As a random example, the etymology forpõrand claims that it derives fromReconstruction:Proto-Finnic/përmanto. Looking at the references inthat article, it does indeed claim thatpõrand is a descendant of this reconstructed term, but why isn't this referenced in the article for the actual word? Furthermore, some articles include information in their etymologies that I cannot find inSõnaveeb norEesti Etümoloogia Sõnaraamat (in the case ofpõrand, Sõnaveeb has no etymology, and EES only contains cognates and a vague source with no actual etymon). I can only assume that such information comes from a less-accessible source (i.e. an actual book). In that case, it would at least be nice to know what that source is. I am not a linguist, so I'd just like to know if it's even worth it to try to look for etymologies if they're not extremely obvious (compounds, derivations, loanwords, etc), or if I should just slap an {{rfe|et}} on it and hope someone more qualified can figure it out.Zomg15 (talk)18:25, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
Never heard of it. Is this a US thing? Perhaps mention which countries have it.~2025-38083-82 (talk)09:05, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
Why would this be spelled Rouche- when the name it derives from is spelled Roche- ?~2025-38881-30 (talk)15:25, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
DoesGracious Professionalism (a registered trademark, official definitionhere) meetWT:CFI? The Wiktionary doesn't have any guidelines on the inclusion of terms that are trademarked other than brand names (WT:BRAND) or company names (WT:COMPANY). A quick Google search identifies that this term is used by sources that are unaffiliated with theFIRST community ([1],[2],[3]),where it originated, but I'm unsure whether or not it should be added because of the term's trademark status and the aforementioned lack of clarification on the addition of such words.𝕷𝖚𝖓𝖆𝖗𝖑𝖚𝖕𝖎𝖞𝖊☾𝕿☽⚸18:05, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
Hello, I was just wondering where the discussion is that it was decided Traditional Chinese will be used for the canonical version of Chinese words. I didn’t know where to look as I’m only a casual enwt user. Thanks!Postleftmobile (talk)01:18, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
Good morning. I wanted to add a quotation to thelimerence entry, but found that I could not: the page is locked from editing. Is there a reason for this? I see nothing on the associated talk page. Unless the page is experiencing current and ongoing disruptive editing, I would like to suggest that it be unlocked. Thank you.~2025-40198-35 (talk)19:13, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
After @VexVector changed Latinpropitiātiō topropitiātiō(n) in the etymology ofpropitiation, I instead changed it to “propitiātiō (stempropitiātiōn-)” and wrote in the edit summary, “‘propitiātiōn’ is incorrect, as it is the stem (cf. ‘propitiat(e)’ for ‘propitiate’).” VexVector reverted this edit, writing “Reversion. The brackets enclosing the stem is a more concise way to include such information.”
The mentioned “propitiat(e) +-ion” is used for the surface etymology, where the brackets indicate the omitted letter, but the usage of them for stem letters is a different case which I have not seen before. What is our practice on this?J3133 (talk)20:38, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
Box16 has been changing alternative forms from multiple lines to only one, including repeating the labels; e.g., atanteroom:
to
This includes cases where the label is for one form at the end but, as I have stated to Box16, seems as though it appears to all of them; e.g., atvideo game console:
to
- video-game console,videogame console,video games console(nonstandard)
I instead changed the label to appear before it to clearly indicate that it only applies to the last form. In another case, atpost office, Box16 only moved the label to after the form:
- postoffice,(dated)post-office
to
- postoffice,post-office(dated)
I reverted this edit, writing in the edit summary, “It appears here before the dated form instead of after both forms, as that would seem to indicate that both are dated.” As alternative forms have always been written in lists, I see no justification for moving them to one line (or if they are in one line, to insist on the label being after the term: we have both|q= and|qq=, and if one is clearer, we should use it in that case).J3133 (talk)10:27, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
Some editors add capitalization and/or punctuation to plurals, which we usually do not, e.g.:
{{plural of|en|fish belly girder|cap=1}}.)Is this acceptable or should these be changed (perhaps by a bot)?J3133 (talk)10:43, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
I could've asked this on many other Wikimedia platforms, but I figured I'd ask here because this is the one I visit most commonly. Can you insert a profile picture like other platforms let you?
If this DOESN'T fit here, lock it and let me know.EliteSlimeJumpingAround (talk)18:45, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
[[File:name.jpg|alt=|thumb|right|caption]], where "name.jpg" is replaced with the actual file name, "alt=" hasalt text, "thumb" is an optional parameter to make it a thumbnail, "right" is an optional parameter to make it float to the right, and "caption" is optional arbitrary text to contextualize or otherwise accompany the photo. You can learn more about Commons atc:Commons:Project scope. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯20:05, 14 December 2025 (UTC)Howdy! What is the standard/best practice for an entry's etymological depth that has more than 1 affixation or compound? Should it be a depth of 1, as seen:computationally,naskiĝtago? Or can it beuntil it reaches the root word, as seen:malsanulejo? I couldn't find clear guidance onWT:ETY nor within my quick search of the Beer Parlor archives.TranqyPoo [💬 |✏️]04:14, 16 December 2025 (UTC)