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January 2014

shark fin

Rfv-sense "To remove the fin from a shark, usually for use in cooking." The more correct form is "to fin a/the shark(s)". The gerund "shark finning" and the agent noun "shark finner" definitely exist and are not being RFVed. --Wiki Tiki 89 06:41, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Very common pattern of noun-verb conversion. Nothing guarantees that the process will lead to shark fin#Verb. You would think that such a verb could not be used intransitively and that the object would always be a shark. Something like "The fishermen sharkfin makos when ever they find them in their nets" might exist in the wild, but "The fishermen fin makos when ever they find them in their nets" seems more likely. DCDuring TALK 13:40, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose there could be uses such as "He shark fins all day," but I haven't found any. --Wiki Tiki 89 18:50, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Found one:

- 2008, Paul J. Mila, Fireworks, AuthorHouse, page 42:
  “Yes, perhaps long-liners or poachers illegally shark finning. […] ”

— Ungoliant ^(falai) 14:37, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I had accepted that we need to attest to the present-tense or 'infinitive' forms, I don't think that is really true. If manner adverbs, like illegally in Ungoliant's example, modify a form of shark fin or there is a true past or passive, that would seem to be sufficient evidence that it is used as a true verb. DCDuring TALK 14:47, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The poachers quotation above seems good; the poachers were illegally shark finning; "they were swimming" attests "swimming" as an inflected form of "to swim", unlike "swimming is my favorite sport", IMHO. DCDuring's adverb argument above seems convincing as well. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:58, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Here’s another:

- 2009, Fredric Archer, The New Shark Troller’s Bible, page 188:
  Once again, at the end of the day, everywhere you looked you could see at least one shark finning on the surface.

This one is ambiguous; it could be a verb ( […] at least one [of them] shark finning on the surface.), referring to finners mentioned in a previous sentence, or it could be a noun ( […] at least one [instance of] shark finning on the surface.). — Ungoliant ^(falai) 15:03, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- 1919, William Merriam Rouse, Peter the Devil in The Green Book Magazine, volume 22, Story-Press Association, page 22:
  […] and the nondescript few who wandered more or less aimlessly about the fifty-mile white beach that was Manaia, shark-finning, boiling bêche-de-mer, hunting hawk's-bill turtle.

Uses a hyphen. There you go: three cites, but two with issues. I’ll leave it to whoever closes the RFV to decide whether this term is verified.

If it passes, it definitely needs to be labelled rare. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 15:37, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I would still feel more comfortable if we could attest the infinite, simple present, or past tense forms. --Wiki Tiki 89 16:26, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Archer cite does not seem to be the same meaning, or even the same POS. It is a subject-verb use rather than an attributive noun-verb use. The shark is displaying his fin above the water, not chopping off his own fin with his pearly whites. Spinning Spark 18:12, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, it's talking about a shark that is "finning" (fin#Verb definition #2). --Wiki Tiki 89 18:20, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Archer cite does not work as pointed out above. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:58, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Here's another unambiguous one: You think the audience would be so forgiving if the fishermen were after humpback whales, or were shark finning? Usages of the infinitive, simple present, and simple past are evading me. There's a lot of interference from the noun shark fin and the adjective shark-finned. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 16:44, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- The fishermen quotation from Usenet immediately above seems good; the fishermen were shark finning. Thus, we now have two good quotations: the poachers one and the fishermen one. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:58, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

April 2014

allotted

Is this really an adjective? “allotted”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. shows that many dictionaries make allotted in effect redirect to allot. AFAICT only WordNet shows it as an adjective, "assigned as a task" her allotted chores, but this seems to transfer meaning from the word modified to the modifier. Consider his allotted share of the garden. DCDuring TALK 20:38, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think this is well suited for RFV. I would like to see a precedent of deleting adjective sections from past participles via RFV or a Beer parlour discussion supporting such deletion via RFV. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:09, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is perfectly well suited for a fact-based discussion. Either the word is attestably used as an adjective or it is not. The question of whether a term is an adjective is fairly clear cut and reasonable quickly resolved by resort to the facts of usage. The role of lawyerly argumentation is useful in evaluating the attestation evidence or in challenging the authority behind the criteria used. DCDuring TALK 11:23, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are no purely attestation-based criteria necessary for adjectivity. An adjective does not need to be comparable and does not need to be modifiable by "very" and the like. RFD is not forbidden from being "fact-based". All criteria listed at Wiktionary:English adjectives are merely hints; none of the criteria is alone necessary and the criteria are not jointly necessary. If Wiktionary:English adjectives were applied to "allotted", google books:"become allotted" would suggest this to be adjective; nonetheless, I do not take Wiktionary:English adjectives very seriously. In any case, this does not fit my idea of proper use of RFV, which should IMHO above all be used to find whether a term or a sense are actually used to convey meaning. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:29, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You seem to ignore our non-legislated practice of requiring that an English adjective be comparable/gradable OR be used as a predicate OR have a sense distinct from the sense of the noun or verb form from which a separate identity is to be established. The predicate case is that hardest to apply for adjectives that are alleged to be conversions of past participles, because it often requires a high level of sensitivity to the language to reliably distinguish passive use of the past participle from predicate use of an adjective. This is the kind of thing that interpretation of actual evidence rather than armchair introspection and gum-flapping (let alone legislating) is well suited to resolving. DCDuring TALK 15:46, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, the putative practice you speak of is a non-legislated practice, meaning it is, if it exists, not a result of a vote or a Beer parlour discussion. Now, any evidence of this being a common practice? Do you know of past RFV outcomes that fit this putative practice? How many are they? For the record, I oppose the use of RFV for this. --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:12, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, of course it can be an adjective, but I'm rather dubious about the comparative and superlative shown in the entry. Donnanz (talk) 10:21, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Why of course? It can be used attributively, but so can nouns and ing-forms and ed-forms of verbs.
1. Can it be shown to be gradable or comparative?
2. Can it be used after become or seem?
3. Is it ever unambiguously used as a predicate, ie, following a form of be with semantics clearly distinguished from a past participle used to form a passive?
4. Does it have a sense that is not present in the ed-form of the verb?
If it doesn't meet at least one of these tests we do not show it as an adjective. DCDuring TALK 11:04, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
All those hurdles? I'm virtually gobsmacked. Donnanz (talk) 11:42, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
If it doesn't meet at least one of these tests we do not show it as an adjective.

I share your skepticism about comparability, but can it be used with very or too (gradability)? I don't think so. I've never run into usage that meets any of the other tests either, but there might be such usage. DCDuring TALK 13:45, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The allotted tasks are less challenging than the other job expectations; the latter have no specific time set aside for their accomplishment.

My days seem allotted either as a series of disasters and bad news, or boring montages of the same-ol'.

Each is allotted a colour according to its priority. - Amgine/^t·e 06:45, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Amgine The first is attributive use of a past participle. (Would attested usage of "the circumnavigated globe" make circumnavigated an adjective?) The third is clearly a use of the verb in the passive. (Consider Each is allotted a color by rule of priority., which makes the agent explicit.) The second is the sole telling example. It could be argued that it is an ellipsis of the passive, but I think not. Three citations of such usage for each of the two senses would settle the matter. DCDuring TALK 13:13, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
There is enough sourcing on "This film has been modified from its original version to run in the allotted time" alone to support this as an adjective. Something can be an adjective while not taking comparatives or superlatives Purplebackpack89 ^{(Notes Taken) (Locker)} 14:36, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your reason would imply that (deprecated template usage) cicumnavigated should be considered an adjective, given usage such as:

Lua error in Module:quote at line 2659: Parameter "books.google.com/books?id" is not used by this template.

There is a clear path to justifying treating this as an adjective: that it attestably meet at least ONE of the tests of adjectivity, such as those listed above (There may be more.). There is no amount of attributive use alone that would compel treatment of this as an adjective. DCDuring TALK 15:31, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

While I don't have an opinion on the rest, wouldn't the modifying element be now circumnavigated in that quote? - Amgine/^t·e 18:28, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Amgine Yes, but circumnavigated is the head of the modifying phrase. I searched for "now circumnavigated" to reduce the portion of the ocean that I had to boil to find relevant citations. DCDuring TALK 18:43, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, as a sailor, I would certainly consider a circumnavigated globe as qualitatively different from an uncircumnavigated one, in a comparable way an explored region differs from an unexplored one, a painted versus an unpainted canvas. In a related manner, an allotted hour or day is different from one unallotted. And that's entirely apart from parliamentary usage (throughout the commonwealth), the standard euphemisms allotted span, allotted hours, or allotted days to indicate length of life (or 70 years, whichever comes first?), and of course Google Books—whether religious, poetic, or otherwise. On another hand, your position that allotted is not adjectival is disputed by OED, Merriam-Webster, Cambridge... just wondering which authority is the basis for your position? - Amgine/^t·e 20:43, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It appears there is enough sourcing to support allotted as an adjective. User:DCDuring, why do you fight words ending in -ed and -ing being defined as adjectives when they're clearly attestable as such? Purplebackpack89 ^{(Notes Taken) (Locker)} 16:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Purplebackpack89 To avoid the need to maintain English entries that convey no semantic information. All English nouns can be used attributively; all English past participles and -ing forms can be used in a variety of predictable ways. Perhaps you would enjoy adding complete adjective PoS sections to all (I do mean ALL) English noun entries, -ing-forms and past participles and complete noun sections to all -ing-form entries. In principle, each sense of the lemma form of a verb should have an appropriately reworded corresponding sense in the adjective section located on the same page as the section for the past participle and the -ing-form. Mutatis mutandis for nouns. DCDuring TALK 18:22, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just because it can be done doesn't mean it has to be done only by me, or immediately. What we just do is end the ridiculous deletion of -ed and -ing adjectives, and create more as needed. Furthermore, it doesn't have to be ALL, because, in practice, not all are used frequently enough to be attributable. Purplebackpack89 ^{(Notes Taken) (Locker)} 15:53, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed one sense as RFV-failed, and suppressed the comparative and superlative forms. The remaining sense has one good citation, and one iffy citation. It needs at least one more citation. Here's another iffy (rather verbal) citation: 1913, Engineering News, volume 69, page 344: As these lands became allotted, they were gradually cultivated through irrigation by a canal from the Yakima River, built in the earlier days by the Indians without outside assistance. - -sche (discuss) 21:13, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@DCDuring what do you make of the two citations in the entry and the one citation I provide above? - -sche (discuss) 21:07, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The 1969 citation and the one above, with usage after become, seem supportive of an adjective interpretation. The other citation in the entry looks verbal to me. DCDuring TALK 22:13, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Assuming we play this little game absent from CFI, legislated by DCDuring, opposed by me and supported by some others:

As for DCDuring's "Can it be used after become or seem?" (I don't know why it would matter, but anyway):

1854, Mary Elizabeth Charles, ‎Mary, the handmaid of the Lord:
Whilst to others, were there not the family of God in the world, and the grace of God in the heart, no necessary task might seem allotted.
1901, Evelyn Abbott, A History of Greece - Volume 2:
Other words which seem allotted to certain places in the line receive this position because they are part of an established phrase: ...
1917, author?, Yale Sheffield Monthly - Volume 24:
But such doubtful blessings as foresight are not vouchsafed to us and I started to fulfill my task as it seemed allotted, come what might.
1967, author?, Advanced Report - Issues 8-9:
During the first hundred years or so, as settlements gradually increased in size and the land available in the original grant became allotted and subdivided through inheritance, small groups split off from the parent villages
1996, Dorothy Whitelock, English Historical Documents:
... but the process by which dues had become allotted to the individual churches or minsters and ceased to be administered for the diocese by the bishop is obscure, ...
2002, F. B. Meyer, Jeremiah: Priest and Prophet:
... who would by that time have become allotted to their captors and would seek to win the smiles of their new lords by ...
More: google books:"seem allotted", google books:"seemed allotted", google books:"seems allotted", google books:"become allotted", google books:"becomes allotted", google books:"became allotted"

--Dan Polansky (talk) 22:45, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Verb forms are regularly used after "become" or "seem", so that test isn't helpful in this circumstance, where the alternative to "allotted" being an adjective is that it is a verb form. One can speak of "Other words which seem [assigned to / banned from / etc] certain places", "the process by which dues had become [assigned / bequeathed / etc] to [...] churches", etc, and the 1967 citation even directly parallels "allotted" to another verb, "subdivided". So we still only have two citations that are adjectival. I tried to search Issuu for citations citations of "very allotted" and other such collocations, but it's returning books that use "allotted" without very (must be an error on someone's end). - -sche (discuss) 21:01, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

thyme

Sense "(poetic) virginity, chastity." Sure. I'm putting it on my list of I wouldn't know where to start looking and I don't have a clue how it would be used if it is really used. Cites, please.--Prosfilaes (talk) 22:24, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Out of all 6 pages of Google Books results for "her thyme" -herb -garlic -cottonwood, these are the only results that look plausible to me: [1] [2] [3]. More context for the third result can be seen here. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 23:10, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The cites might fit a definition like "fertility or sexuality". I don't see "chastity". DCDuring TALK 00:53, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that it's hard to draw the line between symbolism and lexical meaning, and harder still to pin down the meaning of metaphorical speech- but a line has to be drawn. There are lots of poems that refer to beautiful women as roses, and also refer to the "thorns" encountered when they're "plucked" . That doesn't mean we should have senses at rose, thorn or pluck that capture this usage.

To put it another way: the plant known as thyme may symbolize virginity and chastity, but the term "thyme" doesn't necessarily mean "virginity and chastity" as a word. The former is the realm of an encyclopedia, the latter the realm of a dictionary. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:02, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Poetry provides the poorest attestation for contemporary English, ambiguity, allusion, metaphor, and prosody often confusing matters enormously. Also IMO metaphors are often given too much weight in our RfVs. The distinction between "live" metaphors and "dead" ones is worth keeping in mind, even though it is sometimes hard to distinguish between "live" and "dead".

I'm not exactly sure how to handle the symbolic meanings of colors and natural things, as, for example, seems to have been common in the Middle Ages, possibly especially in Christendom. DCDuring TALK 15:55, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I based this entry on the old Irish song "A Bunch of Thyme". There is a very detailed analysis of this song at http://www.irishmusicdaily.com/bunch-of-thyme which clearly states its use as a euphamism for virginity and/or purity.--Dmol (talk) 09:25, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Dmol Interesting article, but some of the other actual usage doesn't seem to me to quite fit "virginity".

Also, the song is in English. Is it an adaptation of an older Irish song? Did "thyme" have some specific association with virginity in Irish culture? DCDuring TALK 14:31, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article actually says: "Thyme represents the girl’s purity and consequently it represents her hopes and prospects for future happiness." This is metaphor, not a meaning of the word. Dbfirs 13:09, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is it lexical information to include as a definition the symbolic meaning of the thing represented by a word (and its synonyms), ie, a synset? Would only an entry be merited only for the language(s) of the culture(s) in which the symbolic meaning existed, at least at one time.

I would think that only when the symbolic meaning has somehow transferred from the referent itself to one or more of the synset would a definition be warranted. So if blue were at one time a symbol of sadness, at some time the meaning transferred to the word, which now has the sense "sad". I certainly doubt that thyme ever remotely approached that kind of meaning transfer. Note also that near-synonyms for the color blue are not near synonyms for sad. DCDuring TALK 13:44, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've added two quotes from traditional songs, one from the 17th century and another later one from (i think) the 19th. I also added two references, one as discussed above and another I found. There is another website, http://www.irishpage.com/songs/thyme.htm , that makes the same connection and give the original Irish language lyrics. I also changed the definition to say that it is "an allegory..." which seems more accurate. --Dmol (talk) 22:16, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

teinipeili

Finnish: "A selfie taken through a mirror, especially one that is published in the internet."

Nominated on 26 April 2014.

What about Finnish teinipeili and meitsie? Can you find the results on books or on groups? --88.251.11.42 05:32, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Teinipeili (lit. "teen mirror") has been around for years and finding three quotes in newspapers would be a piece of cake. First internet appearances of meitsie seem to be from January this year, and thus it does not fulfil our "spanning over one year" -criteria.--Hekaheka (talk) 17:53, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Turkish word 'sanalgı' has been around for years and you may find three quotes in newspapers [4] but it was deleted. Is it not same with 'teinipeili'?--12:46, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

If they were actually nominated, someone might check. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:45, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No quotations in the entry, no quotations in this RFV. Please add quotations or this will be deleted. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:19, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Hekaheka could you add some citations, please? I couldn't find any on Google Books or Issuu, and I only found one citation on Google Scholar, but you have better access to Finnish newspapers and the like than I do. - -sche (discuss) 01:50, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Allright, I'll get the quotes. Meanwhile, some numbers. Teinipeli gets 50,000+ Google hits in a direct search. English is at least 100 times as big as Finnish as measured by the number of speakers. Thus, an English word relatively as frequently used should get at least 5 M hits. --Hekaheka (talk) 07:25, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Now quoted, IMHO. @Dan Polansky, do you agree? --Hekaheka (talk) 11:08, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@User:Hekaheka: note that {{ping}} does not work lately for some reason; it did not ping me.

I see three quotations at teinipeili, formatted accoring to WT:ELE, providing the date and identifying the source. I do not know whether they are from permanently recorded media (WT:ATTEST), but I do not contradict the claim. The safe core of permanently recorded media is Google books and Usenet, which they are not from, but again, they may still be permanently recorded and lie outside of the core. What makes you think they are permanently recorded? --Dan Polansky (talk) 14:04, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No. 1 is a university dissertation published both in book format, of which ISBN is provided, and in pdf-format for which the URL is provided in the quotation

No. 2 is from the blog series of the Institute for the Languages of Finland, the official guardian of the purity of Finnish language. Their (electronic only!) dictionary is to Finnish what OED is to English. They archive permanently everything they publish.

No. 3 is from the pages of YLE, the national broadcasting company. They, too, archive everything that they have published in the electronic era, and they have also made a lot of their earlier productions available through internet, see here: [5] The pages are in Finnish, but if you type "teinipeili" in the search window you get links to the YLE articles in which the word is used.

--Hekaheka (talk) 21:00, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As for durability, I am not really sure, but I think it is fine with me; any other input?

However, the following is a mention, not use: 'This type of picture may be called "selfie" but also teinipeilikuva (lit. "teen mirror image") or more shortly teinipeili.' --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:54, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

True, it is a mention, but it is a mention in a linguistic article in the e-mag of Kotus. The purpose of the quotes in RFV process is to prove that the word exists. What would do it better than this type of an article? Anyway, I have added one more quote and there are three uses. I would very much prefer to keep this "mention" as well. --Hekaheka (talk) 05:04, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There have been no comments within a month. Shall i consider this "passed"? --Hekaheka (talk) 07:37, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Appears so: RfV passed. --Hekaheka (talk) 17:56, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

meitsie

Finnish: "selfie"

Nominated on 26 April 2014.

Hekaheka said in April 2014: First internet appearances of meitsie seem to be from January this year, and thus it does not fulfil our "spanning over one year" -criteria

Three quotations are in the entry but they are not from durably archived sources. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:19, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Define "durably archived", and explain to me in which sense they are worse than the quotes provided for "selfie". The quotes for meitsie are from the pages of three well-established newspapers. --Hekaheka (talk) 07:30, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If they're print newspapers, they're durably archived. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 09:36, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I remember cases where we have accepted postings from discussion groups. All but one of the current quotes for "selfie" are from non-print sources, one even appears to be a transcript of a radio programme. All three newspapers I quoted are print newspapers but the quotes are from their web pages. --Hekaheka (talk) 09:18, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@User:Hekaheka: The safe core of "permanently recorded media" (WT:ATTEST) is Google books and Usenet. Usenet is a collection of discussion groups. Not any and all discussion groups on the Internet are considered permanently recorded media.

Can you please format the quotations at meitsie as per WT:ELE, especially providing dates, author, and work title? --Dan Polansky (talk) 14:08, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Now done, sorry for the delay. --Hekaheka (talk) 15:17, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@User:Hekaheka It is now apparent that the quotations in meitsie do not meet the "spanning at least a year" requirement of WT:ATTEST. Furthermore, the quotations seem to be mentions, not uses: "Santtu Toivonen has claimed the fatherhood of meitsie. First, he asked for proposals from his Facebook friends. Other suggestions he got included omis, omakas, itsi, itsari, itsukka, meikkis, meitsis, meitzu, peilaus and peilitsu" talks about the word and mentions other words that could have been used instead of that word. Similarly, 'I wonder if "meitsie" will become to primarily mean such self portraits which the speaker doesn't take quite seriously himself…' seems to talk about what the word is going to mean rather than using the word to convey meaning. --Dan Polansky (talk) 22:02, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is a new word, still chiefly used in speech and in non-permanently recorded media. Therefore, it is not so odd if majority of permanently recorded uses are from articles that discuss the word itself. I would turn your argument upside down: if media such as the country's leading newspaper (Helsingin Sanomat) and the homepages of the guardian of Finnish language (Kotus) publish an article about it, it is most likely used. Also, 74,000 Google hits and hundreds of hits in picture search for e.g. "meitsie 2015" must count as something. --Hekaheka (talk) 05:25, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Further, you may want to reflect what the word "or" means in our definition of attestation criteria:

clearly widespread use, or
use in permanently recorded media, conveying meaning, in at least three independent instances spanning at least a year

--Hekaheka (talk) 05:34, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the previous paragraph (including "it is not so odd if majority of permanently recorded uses are from articles that discuss the word itself"), you are arguing against WT:ATTEST, claiming that WT:ATTEST is too strict, right? I am not convinced by the arguments; we should not include emerging neologisms at any and all costs; they should meet WT:ATTEST, IMHO.

As for clearly widespread use, my position is that "meitsie" is a Finnish neologism that is not in clearly widespread use, and that "clearly widespread use" item of WT:ATTEST is for such obvious cases as "dog" or "city".

Maybe the hot word lovers ({{hot word}}) will come here and arbitrarily declare this to be a hot word, and thereby defy most of attestation requirements (durably archived, used rather than mentioned, spanning a year); I don't know.

One more thing. Citations:meitsie does not get deleted even if this RFV fails. I have copied your quotations there to prevent their accidental lost. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:42, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@User:Dan Polansky I added three new quotes, which to my understanding will do the job. --Hekaheka (talk) 14:49, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first three quotations in meitsie seems to be uses, not mentions, so they meet this requirement of CFI. I make no comment about their being durably archived. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:58, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There have been no new comments within a month. Shall i consider this "passed"? --Hekaheka (talk) 07:38, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Appears so: RfV passed. --Hekaheka (talk) 17:58, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

May 2014

隱身

I couldn't confirm the existence of this word in Japanese. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 13:49, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I found a couple of works related to Shinto and Japanese mythology that use 隱身 in Japanese (not read おんしん but かくりみ, though): [6] [7] [8]. Whym (talk) 01:18, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Whym thanks. With this reading it makes more sense, it's also in 隱身@Weblio.jp. Apparently it's a Shinto term. Could you improve the definition, please? --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:36, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Our favorite IP strikes again. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:26, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Does this have to do with the above entry or related entries? What were the edits?

@Whym, @Eirikr I'll leave the above entry in your capable hands. :) --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:26, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict)If you look at the edit history, it was created by 2.220.125.207 back in 2012. Any time you find something in our Japanese entries that's wrong in ways that just don't make sense, the odds are it traces back to this same person. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:38, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note also that the initial character here, 隱, is the obsolete kyūjitai for 隠. As such, the entry at 隱身 should only ever be a stub entry marked as {{alternative spelling of|隠身}}, directing readers to the lemma entry content at 隠身.

FWIW, I find evidence for both the readings kakurimi (google books:"隠身"+"かくりみ", 81 hits) and kakuremi (google books:"隠身"+"かくれみ", 28 hits). ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 06:22, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Atitarev, Eirikr I tried my best at 隠身 and 隱身. Quotations are not yet added. Whym (talk) 13:34, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't done much research on this, but 隱形 (隠形) probably has the same problem. Whym (talk) 13:34, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Whym Thank you! I see you're using {{ja-altread}}. I haven't used it before @Eirikr has some other way to put together terms with multiple reading but I don't remember exactly. Just by repeating the headword on two lines? --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 13:40, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

düşerge

Allegedly a Turkish word meaning "camp".

Allegged inflected forms: definite accusative düşerge, plural düşergeler.

Someone doubts the existence of the word entry, so I request attestation. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:22, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cited since May, but the citations don’t have translations. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 01:33, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Düşerge is "pay, miras payı" at Turkish. But it is not "camp". "düşərgə" is "camp" and Azeri's word. A group try to show like Turkish. --123snake45 (talk) 14:54, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@123snake45 what do the citations at Citations:düşerge say? — Ungoliant ^(falai) 15:51, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've just added the translations. --88.251.163.12 09:32, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RFV-passed, it seems. - -sche (discuss) 01:54, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is mistake. Düşerge is pay, "miras payı" at the Turkish. It isn't "kamp". Camp is düşerge (düşərgə) at the Azerbaycanca. --123snake45 (talk) 01:29, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Sinek, Dijan can you take a look at the citations at Citations:düşerge and clarify if the translations are accurate / if düşerge is a Turkish word for "camp"? - -sche (discuss) 01:36, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

1966 Hüseyin Baykara, Azerbaycan'da yenileşme hareketleri: XIX. yüzyıl

This is Turkish: Bu eski ve zengin ülke, muhtelif ırklara mensup insan akınlarına asırlarca bir geçit ve düşerge yeri olmuştur.
If we adapt this to Azerbaijani it would be: Bu əski və zəngin ölkə müxtəlif irqlərə mənsub insan axınlarına əsrlərcə bir keçid və düşərgə yeri olmuşdur.

1997 Türkiye Halk Kültürlerini Araştırma ve Geliştirme Genel Müdürlüğü, ‎Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı, Milletlerarası Türk Halk Kültürü Kongresi

This is Turkish: Gelip bir dağın dameninde düşerge eylediler
If we adapt this to Azerbaijani it would be: Gəlib bir dağın damənində düşərgə elədilər.

2001, Ahmet Kabaklı, Türk Edebiyatı - 327-332. sayılar

This is Turkish: Ölüm ve rezalet düşergeleri" Bizim değil, sizin icadınızdır.
If we adapt this to Azerbaijani it would be: Ölüm və rəzalət düşərgələri bizim deyil sizil icadınızdır.

2005, Cabbar Ertürk, Erol Cihangir, Kızılordu'dan Kafkas millî lejyonuna: bir Türk'ün ikinci dünya harbi hatıraları

This is Turkish: Gündüz Esed'in gelişinden sonra yorgun halde düşergeye [kampa] döndük.
If we adapt this to Azerbaijani: Gündüz Əsədin gəlişindən sonra yorğun halda düşərgəyə döndük.

The Azerbaijani ones are not translations, some of the words that are used in the sentences are not frequently used in Azerbaijani. For example you may say: Bu köhnə və varlı ölkə müxtəlif irqlərə mənsub insan axınlarına əsrlərlə bir keçid və düşərgə yeri olmuşdur; Səhər Əsədin gəlməyindən / Əsəd gələndən sonra yorğun vəziyyətdə düşərgəyə qayıtmışıq, etc. --85.103.244.86 16:35, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Moved to düşərgə --Recónditos (talk) 10:29, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

June 2014

plum blossom

Rfv-sense: "The blossom of the Prunus mume."

I suspect that this was created because it was a translation of a species-limited CJKV term, not based on actual usage in English. As it stands it is misleading. DCDuring TALK 22:59, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia article on prunus mume has said for a long time that: "The flower is usually called plum blossom", and provides a citation for that proposition. bd2412 T 13:06, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@BD2412 That citation is a translation of an old Chinese work, which would probably support my suspicion as to the source of the term. I really don't think that hyponymic translations should be used to justify overly specific definitions, unless we are to completely write off our role as a monolingual dictionary. DCDuring TALK 13:24, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Moreover, the book does not actually use plum blossom as a translation for the flower of Prunus mume, but rather mei-flower, as the translator explains in the introduction (page lv therof). DCDuring TALK 13:33, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if that's the route we're going:

1969, Ernest Henry Wilson, ‎Daniel J. Foley, The Flowering World of "Chinese" Wilson, p. 63:
Japan holds flower festivals during many months of the year, beginning with that of the plum blossom (Prunus mume) in February and ending with that of the chrysanthemum in November, but the most popular is that of the cherry blossom which falls in early April.
1974, Yoshiaki Mihara, Agricultural Meteorology of Japan, p. 25:
The plum blossom is the earliest of all the flowers in Japan. The flowering date of the plum (Prunus Mume) has also been extensively studied.
1983, Edwin T. Morris, The Gardens of China: History, Art, and Meanings, p. 173:
Hsiang Sheng-mo (1 597-1 658), "Prunus mume" (mei hua) in "Landscapes, Flowers, and Birds." The plum blossom that bloomed against the naked wood was the sign of spring and renewal.

I can't say whether this is idiomatic, since the fruit of the plant is an apricot, which is technically just a pale plum. bd2412 T 13:48, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps context is an issue. Among native speakers, plum blossom would seem to be understood as "flower of the Prunus mume" only in the context of discussions about oriental flora, the Orient itself, and in reference to products or art associated with the Orient. I suppose it could all be done in a usage note. I can only hope that the translations respect the narrowness of the usage. DCDuring TALK 15:24, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your assessment. In any case, this only differs from sense one in that it identifies a specific species of plum blossom. bd2412 T 18:32, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: in the OED. Ƿidsiþ 18:35, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That the fruit of Prunus mume is called a Japanese apricot and the tree goes by that name as well is sufficient, I suppose. I have added some material to the entry to clarify some of what is idiomatic about it. DCDuring TALK 19:08, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, Prunus mume is really neither an apricot nor a plum, but something without a clear one-to-one English translation, except the lesser-known loanwords ume and mei. Botanically, it's definitely much closer to the apricot, but judging from the Wikipedia article, most of the culinary products use plum in the English name. From this I would guess that "plum" is the older, more established usage, but "apricot" is the current prescriptivist favorite. I don't think that the "it's an apricot, not a plum" argument is sufficient in itself to prove that it's idiomatic, but I'd be curious how references to the blossoms of Prunus salicina are translated, since that's the Japanese fruit most solidly identified in English usage as a plum- in the US (at least in California, where I live), it's actually far better known than the original European plum, Prunus domestica. The blossoms have deeply iconic cultural significance with both the Chinese and Japanese, and so are more likely to be found in English translations, while those of Prunus salicina are no doubt of secondary importance to the fruit. By the way, I'll have to see if I can spend some time sorting through our East Asian fruit tree terms, since many of them seem to be either confused or vague. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:21, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Prunus mume more or less specifies the bearer of the blossom. Simple vernacular terms often refer to more than one species, sometimes to different genera, families, orders, even classes and phyla. Chinese plum is an example, by no means exceptional. The set of English vernacular names that have a one-to-one correspondence to species names not only doesn't cover many species, but also is often not used except in limited contexts, though many of the contexts are in print. The English vernacular names for species not native to English-speaking lands are a challenge as there may be one or more "official" names; names based on similarity of appearance to a species that is native to English-speaking lands, qualified by one or more adjectives associating it with a region (eg, Japanese, Chinese); and transliterations of non-English names.

Plum blossom is one of a narrower set of terms that have a connection to vernacular names, but also a cultural meaning in a culture that has a strong cultural influence on the English language. DCDuring TALK 11:35, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Citations have been provided above; the question seems to be whether or not the term is SOP. Shall we move to RFD? - -sche (discuss) 05:40, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

skinnymalinky

This has the sole sense: "A very thin person." The quotations that I find seem to be adjectival. Worth attesting. google books:"skinnymalinky", google groups:"skinnymalinky", “skinnymalinky”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.. We have skinnymalinks, which I do not question, since that seems easy to attest using google books:"skinnymalinks". --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:17, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ap

Back in December 2013 someone questioned the existence of ap as an English adjective meaning "In or relating to the apothecaries' system of measures", but nothing more was done about it, so now I'm bringing it here. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 22:47, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

To start off, here are a few hits in reference works: here, here, and here, and one use: here. Maybe not complete by CFI standards, but at least enough to show it wasn't made completely up. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:11, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

July 2014

dioscliosta

It looks like the term is in use (e.g., Dioscliosta David Guetta), but I can't find anything permanent enough to count. Not in GBooks, GGroups, or Foinse.ie. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 04:42, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There's focloir.ie, but it's more of a mention than a use. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:58, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes... that's the 1959 English-Irish Dictionary, which is as near to the Official Modern Irish dictionary as is available. (Ó Donaill's Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla is the other half, from almost twenty years later, and doesn't include this word, although diosc and liosta are both present.)

Which leads to an awkward situation: anyone looking up "discography" in the closest thing to an official dictionary of Irish will find dioscliosta. And just because it hasn't shown up in print yet, it's appearing in other places and a print appearance would seem to be a matter of time. If someone can find it in a citable medium, then no harm, no foul. If not... I dunno. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 05:06, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, it is not listed in the 1959 English-Irish Dictionary; the link above points to Foras na Gaeilge's new English-Irish dictionary. Irish is an LDL, so a single mention is sufficient for it to pass RFV, but since Foras na Gaeilge coins its own Irish words in response to a perceived gap in the language (rather than waiting for speakers to develop terms naturally and then reporting them), I'm not inclined to take its word for the realness of this term. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 16:20, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. That's not exactly clear from that page. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 23:04, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is once you get used to how that site is organized. The pages that say "New English-Irish Dictionary" beneath the focloir.ie logo belong to the new dictionary. The Ó Donaill and de Bhaldraithe databases are at breis.focloir.ie, e.g. http://breis.focloir.ie/en/eid/discography. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 23:49, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mexican beer dermatitis

The phenomenon itself is thoroughly plausible, since many plants in the family that limes belong to contain photosensitizing substances- but I only found one usenet post, which linked to an online article, which referred to a journal article published in 2010. It looks like a one-off descriptive phrase that never caught on. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:19, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Journal of the American Medical Association - Dermatology: [9] 2010
New York Daily News [10] 2010
National Public Radio [11] 2010
"The Doctors" TV show [12] 2011
Canadian Dermatology Association [13] 2014

-- 65.94.171.126 10:31, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

margarita dermatitis

By the same user. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 16:01, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't rfv this one because this quote seems to point to there being actual usage, though Google Books and Google Groups don't show it. Chuck Entz (talk) 16:18, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

But even that quote is just a mention. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 18:46, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

BBC [14] 2006
ScienceDaily [15] 2007
KCRW radio [www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/good-food/modernist-drinks-geology-and-terroir-margarita-dermatitis] 2013
USA Today [16] 2013
About.com [17] 2013
Canadian Dermatology Association [18] 2014

New England Journal of Medicine [19] Margarita Photodermatitis - 1993 (yes this is a somewhat different term; seeing if it should be added or left alone, if these are being deleted; there's also the alternate meaning for "lime disease" being phytophotodermatitis from the fruit 'lime' (shown in some of the links above))

-- 65.94.171.126 10:31, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that any of these count. The BBC do sometimes delete web pages so they're definitely not durably archived. The Canadian Dermatology Association citation seems more like a mention because it says "Phytophotodermatitis – also called Mexican beer (or margarita) dermatitis". So... do we have any citations at all that definitely count? I think not. Renard Migrant (talk) 14:38, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Mexican beer dermatitis" is in the title of this scholarly paper without quotation marks, but I cannot access the full article to see how it is used in text. Spinning Spark 20:52, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Company names

These need citations meeting WT:COMPANY rules -- Liliana • 21:20, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Motorola

Nokia

(company sense only) -- Liliana • 21:20, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This already passes. Renard Migrant (talk) 11:25, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Where are the citations? - -sche (discuss) 15:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I mean it passes WT:COMPANY as "To be included, the use of the company name other than its use as a trademark (i.e., a use as a common word or family name) has to be attested." It's attested as town in Finland. It would seem trivial to type these citations up. I just said it passes, I never claimed to have typed the citations up. Renard Migrant (talk) 15:47, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

the use of the company name. The city sense is not the use of the company name. -- Liliana • 09:45, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Samsung

Hyundai

Toshiba

Mitsubishi

I oppose this RFV nomination. This is a very unwise nomination. These entries are single-word ones, capable of hosting lexicographical material such as etymology, pronunciation and translation into other languages; multiple of the nominated items already do. WT:COMPANY is not supported by consensus, as per Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2012-02/CFI and company names. WT:COMPANY is not a plain RFV regulation; it is one that places additional hurdles on company names, for reasons that I still do not undertand and that are IMHO not explained at Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2012-02/CFI and company names. The opposers have not explained why company names must be excluded while place names can be included. The arguing in the vote is along the line "we need some rules or else will have too many company names", but the opposers have not proposed any rules, and have not explained what is wrong with having a large number attested single-word company names. As for plain RFV nomination, all terms are clearly in widespread use, and RFV does not apply. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:32, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- We have a certain user here who often likes to say "no consensus -- status quo ante". — Keφr 08:50, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - For one thing, the status quo ante before this RFV for the nominated terms in the namespace is that Wiktionary has them. But let us look broader, at the status of company names in the mainspace in general, not just the nominated ones. As for most of the nominated terms, they are quite recent, so they are a poor indication of "ante": Motorola (since August 2012), Samsung (since August 2012), Hyundai (since September 2012‎), Toshiba (since March 2013‎), and Mitsubishi (since April 2013‎). However, Wiktionary had company names as early as in 2004 - Sony; Apple, BMW, FedEx, Gibson, Google, IBM,Kawasaki, Mobil, Nokia, Peugeot, Pixar, Raleigh, Toyota and Volvo are all from 2005, all as company names. More company names are listed at User talk:Dan Polansky#Company names. There were some deletions, including Atari, Exxon, Microsoft and Verizon, and probably other. As for the current WT:COMPANY text in CFI, it was entered there without a vote and even without a discussion AFAICT, so it never was supported by consensus by any stretch; the diffs that I found are diff (22 May 2005) and diff (21 November 2007). So I am not sure what your point really is. In any case, I consider this use of RFV to be an abuse of it, by a person who could not get his or her way by a proper consensus-based channel, in Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2010-05/Names_of_specific_entities and Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2010-05/Placenames_with_linguistic_information_2 under former user name Prince Kassad, newly Liliana-60. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:41, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    - It may have been added without prior discussion, but nobody removed it. The above-linked vote on your proposal has failed with 9 opposes against 8 supports. Which for me indicates that the community feels that WT:COMPANY is still in force, and supports keeping it in place for the time being. And even if the policy is changed, the citations collected here (or lack thereof) can still be useful to make drafting the new policy more of an evidence-based discussion instead of armchair consensus-building. — Keφr 12:56, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      - The fact that no one removed the offending part from the CFI after it was added is wholly immaterial. I for one never felt comfortable making changes to a policy page that said at the top of the page that changes should not be done without a vote. For some time, I naively thought that CFI was really based on consensus; I only discovered later that it was not so. As a result, I set up a multitude of votes to remove things from CFI that were not supported by consensus. Some were a pass, some were a fail. Some of the best examples of things that were in CFI for ages with most people not taking them seriously is the attributive-use rule, removed via Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2010-05/Names_of_specific_entities. The trick of adding stuff to policy pages and hoping that people will not remove them for the fear of edit war was tried in Wiktionary multiple times by various editors, with a considerable success. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:09, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know, which rule could be applicable here but I vote keep all and I think we should keep all notable one word company names for the same reason we keep countries and place names. People are likely to look them up, search translations or want to find etymology, pronunciation. The more linguistic info such entries contain, the more important and interesting they are. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:48, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A weak keep, if only to explain why at some international go tournaments one isn't allowed to bid "3 diamonds" in some of the bridge side tournaments. OTOH, I don't know whether I would write down my bid as "Mitsubishi" or "mitsubishi" (if I weren't allowed to write "3♦"). If proper nouns are used so often that puns with them are understood by relative outsiders, then we help our users by describing those secondary meanings. --80.114.178.7 20:07, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have added four citations for Hyundai which I believe meet our strictures for brand names. bd2412 T 15:12, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

big balls

Alleggedly means "courage". I request attesting quotations per WT:ATTEST. This was already once in RFV, but the RFV closure was irregular and no attesting quotations were provided. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:33, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify, the previous discussion DP refers to is at Talk:big_balls. Equinox ◑ 20:37, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't just "balls" mean courage? Purple backpack89 02:13, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Regardless of what "balls" means, I request evidence in the form of attesting quotations that the phrase "big balls" is actually attested to mean courage, as per WT:ATTEST. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:30, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Does that help? --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 08:22, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Let us have a look. I'll take the 1st quotation and replace "big balls" with X, and let us see whether the quotation suggests X means courage. The result is this: "Biffy says, “You've got X for a girl Bubbles. I like your style. Give it to him. Juicy's rotten, but Bubbles. You've got the scevusa on your hands now.” Bubbles drops the hot dog, and calls Biffy and Juicy some un-young ladylike words.". Now, do you think it can be inferred from the sentence that X means courage? --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:09, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I do, actually. Do you not? Certainly it is clear from two of those quotes that it's not a literal reference to body parts. The other quotes are similar: they are general approbations with a clear meaning. Unless you are demanding one of the quotes from a dictionary of slang, or a quote of something like "He showed that he had big balls by standing up by which I mean he was very brave" or something equally awful. (I'll grant that the quote you copied here could be reduced to the first two sentences, but I wanted to find a balance between excluding context, and including too much.) --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 09:19, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I certainly do not require dictionary quotations, since that is not what WT:ATTEST allows. I cannot really infer the meaning of "courage" from the quotations, but then I am not a native speaker. Let other editors comment on the merits of the provided quotations. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:25, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In my experience, [big] balls (without the) doesn't simply mean courage: sometimes it means assertiveness, but usually means gall, nerve or chutzpah. A former employer of mine used to say things like "you've got balls the size of an elephant to complain about that" Chuck Entz (talk) 16:00, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lugaid mac Con Roí

Cú Roí

Does mythology count as a fictional universe? 'Cause I really don't think these guys' names are used out of context in an attributive sense, in either English or Irish. (So this RFV applies to both languages and if it fails, I'm requesting that the whole pages be deleted.) —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:44, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oy vey, there are 74 pages in Category:en:Irish mythology, many of which could probably be subsumed under this RFV, but I just don't have the time to go through them all now. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:56, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't count mythology as a fictional universe. People misuse the word fictional to mean anything that (in their belief) is not factual, but really fiction implies a specific genre, in which the plot is intended to be understood as not being factual. --Wiki Tiki 89 22:37, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, old mythologies are different from fiction, and I dispute that WT:FICTION applies to old mythologies. Certainly, all of WT:FICTION's examples are works of (modern) fiction rather than mythologies. For new stories which are mythological/religious stories according to some and fictional stories according to others (e.g. the stories of Gerald Gardner or L Ron Hubbard), the situation is less clear.
We do have a separate policy that "No individual person should be listed as a sense in any entry whose page title includes both a given name or diminutive and a family name or patronymic." But there's disagreement on whether or not that policy should be enforced when the person in question was important to a mythology or religion — see WT:RFD#محمد بن عبد الله — so "Lugaid mac Con Roí" is potentially still in a grey area. (Bah.) - -sche (discuss) 01:30, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking as someone with an interest in Irish Onomastics, I'd say that the name elements are dictionary-worthy, but to include a full person's name as a name seems encyclopaedic and out of scope. See, eg, Badb: As a word, it's the name of a goddess. For further details, history, great feats, symbology, etc, etc; the Wikipedia entry exists.

In this instance, Lugaid is a name. Cú Roí is a name. Lugaid mac Con Roí is a person. He serves as an attestation of the name elements, an example of them in use, but this place is a dictionary, not a who's-who.

Similarly, I'd say that Finn is a lemma, definition "an Old Irish name, Descendants Irish: Fionn", but Finn mac Cumail, or Fionn mac Cumhail, or Finn MacCool are not. He's an attestation of the name, and there might be an argument for a (not-exhaustive) list of noteworthy bearers of the name, but I submit that we distinguish between names as words, and names as people. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 01:56, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Per User:Catsidhe's comments and my own, I've deleted Lugaid mac Con Roí but kept Cú Roí. What should be done with e.g. Conall the Victorious and Conall Cernach? - -sche (discuss) 22:29, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Conall is a name, cernach is an adjectival byname (from cern (“victory”, noun)), both are in scope. Conall Cernach is a person, and is something for Wikipedia to deal with.

At some point I want to go through and add Irish names in some sort of almost systematic way. I can probably work on decomposing some of these mythical names first. Names like Conchobar, Fergus, Finn, Conall, and Cairbre are not uncommon in the Annals, so that should be easy enough. Manannán is only a god's name as far as I know, but it's attested well enough as well. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 23:37, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

August 2014

make out

Rfv-sense: (intransitive) To succeed in seducing; to have sex. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 23:30, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think so. 'make out' = "succeed, turn out well/as expected"...I can certainly see this used in certain contexts. For instance: I took Jennifer out for the first time last night. As you know, I've been trying to get in her panties for a long time. (Friend): Yeah, so did you make out? --this could also be interpreted as "Did you kiss each other/have a make-out session. Leasnam (talk) 00:31, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

But that's just because of the context. You can't say that the word "succeed" means to "to have sex", just because it can also be used in that context. --Wiki Tiki 89 01:41, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

MWO has this as sense 2 a.[20]; vocabulary.com has a sense like this as well[21]. Some other dictionaries have senses involving necking. Making a deeper search for quotations could be worthwhile. --Dan Polansky (talk) 21:01, 30 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

paraskevodekatriaphobia

I don't seem to be able to find attestation (WT:ATTEST) in durably archived attestation sources: google books:"paraskevodekatriaphobia", google groups:"paraskevodekatriaphobia", “paraskevodekatriaphobia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search..

As a simple solution, paraskevodekatriaphobia should be moved back to paraskavedekatriaphobia, from which it was moved on 29 May 2014‎. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:16, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The only spelling I see in Google Books is paraskevidekatriophobia, which is based on Modern Greek, rather than Ancient Greek. Even that may very well be only mentions. Maybe it should be moved to Appendix:Unattested phobias. Chuck Entz (talk) 12:32, 4 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

For paraskavedekatriaphobia, there are Citations:paraskavedekatriaphobia from permanently recorded media, albeit somewhat mentiony to me. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:59, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It has no bearing on the rfv, but this term is an etymological train wreck. In Ancient Greek, παρασκευή (paraskeuḗ) simply meant preparation, and was probably closer in pronunciation to "paraskewe". In Judaic contexts such as biblical translations it could refer to the day before the Sabbath, when observant Jews would prepare everything so they wouldn't have to work on the Sabbath itself. Since the Sabbath is on Saturday, that makes the term a very restricted synonym for Friday, but probably not a common one outside those contexts. The widespread adoption of Christianity and thus the change to being the general Greek word for Friday approximately coincided with two sound changes: υ between vowels became v, and η became i.

That means that "paraskeve" meaning "Friday" would require combining elements from different time periods, while "paraskevi" would mean using Modern Greek in a context which is normally strictly Ancient Greek. User:Pyprilescu tried to avoid the issue by moving to a compromise spelling, not considering that we go by usage rather than by etymological correctness. I suspect that whoever coined the term looked up Friday in a Modern Greek dictionary, and the "paraskeve" was an attempt to normalize the Modern Greek romanization, "paraskevi" to the way Ancient Greek is romanized in scientific terms.

At any rate, I think the best course of action is to treat this as an rfv of all the spellings of the term. If any of them passes (paying careful attention to the use/mention distinction), it should be moved to the most common spelling that passes and any other spellings that pass should become alternative spellings. If none of them pass, it should be moved to Appendix:Unattested phobias. Chuck Entz (talk) 16:52, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is there even a (gentile) Ancient Greek word for Friday? Some calque of dies Veneris, perhaps, e.g. ἡμέρα τῆς Ἀφροδίτης? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 17:14, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. I shouldn't have talked about commonness without knowing anything about how the ancient Greeks referred to the different days. If I had to guess, I'd say it would be some derivation from ἕκτος (héktos). I vaguely recall reading something about the custom of naming days after gods being a later borrowing from a foreign source. Chuck Entz (talk)

Pedantic point, but I think the days were named directly after the planets and thus only indirectly after the gods. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 19:53, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

True. After looking at the article on the w:Attic calendar and w:Roman calendar, it occurred to me that there may not have even been a widely-used system of 7-day weeks in Greece until the Romans instituted theirs in the early years of the Roman Empire. The earlier Roman nundinal week was based on an 8-day system, but I see nothing mentioned for Greece except the division of lunar months into thirds. I'm sure the Greeks were well aware of the 7-day systems of the Near East, but I wonder if anyone really used them. The lack of an accepted Ancient Greek name for Friday would certainly explain why a Modern Greek name was used. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:47, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

superlua

Wonderfool entry. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 16:24, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hundreds from this year can be found like

[22] [23]. From 2012 we have this one. I haven't got the knowhow to put these quotes up --Type56op9 (talk) 21:03, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

These aren’t durably archived. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 22:31, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

superlúa

Wonderfool entry. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 16:24, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It exists for sure, we have this from 2012 but it's not a WT-valid use. --Type56op9 (talk) 21:05, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

gwaai

RFV of both senses in the English L2. I can't find any evidence of the cigarette sense, and nothing for the Haida sense that unambiguously uses it as a noun and not some sort of title. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:38, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Added three citations for the cigarette sense, but at least one has it in italics, suggesting code-switching. Equinox ◑ 16:55, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

nước mắm

Supposedly English. Needs cites in this orthography. DCDuring TALK 10:08, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's easy finding English sentences using this spelling, but much harder deciding whether the term is being used as English or as Vietnamese. I'll see if I can come up with some good examples. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:19, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I view this as a kind of test case. I won't challenge other terms with similar orthography if this turns out to be attestable. If it is attestable, we should create the category of which it is currently the sole member. DCDuring TALK 15:41, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Would Hà Nội or Việt Nam (with Vietnamese diacritics) be attestable as English terms? In any case, we have examples of Romanian, Turkish, etc., etc, spellings used in English, Japanese macrons, e.g. Tōkyō are also common. It's hard to verify, though. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:57, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Two tests I’ve seen people using to determine whether the author considers the term a loanword instead of a foreign word are:

the term is unitalicised;
the inflected forms of the term use English desinences.

Number 2 is inapplicable in this case, since nước mắm is uncountable. As for unitalicised uses, I’ve only found this one. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 01:22, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

blaspheme

RFV of the noun sense synonymous with blasphemy. I'm having trouble finding a single lemming at OneLook that lists a noun blaspheme or a non-scanno/typo usage of blaspheme as a noun at b.g.c. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 20:53, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Such blaspheme" finds a handful, but they all look like errors to me. Equinox ◑ 20:55, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In Middle English blasfeme (“blasphemy”). See “blaspheme”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. where it is a noun. DCDuring TALK 23:39, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- The Century Dictionary's noun (and adjective) entries list only Wyclif and Chaucer as authors, so maybe it should be moved to a Middle English section. If it can be found in Early Modern authors, then maybe it should be tagged "obsolete". —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 20:28, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - The OED marks this sense as obsolete, with the latest cite from 1583 (Poems of T Watson). It looks more like Middle English to me. Dbfirs 08:57, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    - If it's from 1583, that's well into Early Modern English.--Prosfilaes (talk) 09:05, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      - Yes, agreed. I wasn't convinced that Thomas Watson was using Chancery Standard because he also wrote in Latin and studied law, but he was educated at Oxford, so he would be using Early Modern. There's another cite from W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection in 1526, so I think you are correct that the word survived into Early Modern English. We should mark it as obsolete. Dbfirs 09:22, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

necker

rfv --kc_kennylau (talk) 10:20, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if it could be attested to mean one who necks a drink. I doubt it, I'm just musing. Renard Migrant (talk) 17:05, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

tragematopolist

One of those dictionary-only words, I suspect. I found one very dubious running-text citation in a book attempting to use as many unusual words as possible, but otherwise I can't see any evidence. Ƿidsiþ 08:26, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase

Rfv-sense: (pathology) a superbug strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria that produces carbapenemase
Rfv-sense: (biochemistry) a carbapenemase enzyme produced by Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria

The term exists; the question is which of the two senses is attested per WT:ATTEST. I propose you place the attesting quotations at Citations:Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase, since if the 1st sense is not attested, the 2nd can be later deleted as sum of parts via RFD. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:28, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that the biochemistry sense is used in w:Carbapenemase. It seems to include at least four types, which types may be subject to further division. IOW, the term reflects our current state of knowledge, but may not refer to a specific chemical whose composition and structure is well-established. As such I don't know in what sense it will really seem to be a term as more is understood. Perhaps users view it as SoP now. DCDuring TALK 13:00, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

From reading abstracts it appears that there is a gene which spreads among bacteria that enables them to create the K. pneumoniae carbapenase, so the notion that there is a strain the identity of which is stable enough to warrant treatment as a taxon seems unlikely. For example, {{w:NCBI}} does not have a taxon called Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase.

I feel that this is beyond my access to the scientific literature and probably my paygrade. If we do not have and cannot recruit a contributor with better access and knowledge, I would rather we deleted the pathology sense. The biochem sense would provide an interested user with a term to be used in further research. The pathology sense looks like it leads up a blind alley. DCDuring TALK 13:24, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OTOH, this may be an important gateway to the phenomenon or rapidly spreading drug-resistance among pathogens that we would be remiss to neglect. DCDuring TALK 13:26, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's all very nice (or not, depending on one's taste), but I really request attesting quotations; these absent, I request that this be ultimately deleted. --Dan Polansky (talk) 14:48, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I know you are only interested in formal procedure, so I apologize for boring you. I don't know how to cite this properly in this case. I'd appreciate someone else trying or offering constructive advice or support. DCDuring TALK 17:10, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RFV is not "formal procedure" in any pejorative sense; it is a process used to discover whether, as far as we know, a term or sense is attested. The material requested via RFV are usually attesting quotations, or at least links to them. You know that by now, having spent multiple years around here, so I not sure what to make of your above responses. --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:37, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

September 2014

çimerlik

Tagged but not listed by 123snake45 (talk • contribs), with the comment:"There is no that word at Turkish. It has been prefabricated! It isn't Turkish." A couple of cites have just been added to the citations page for the entry, so it looks like a good time to assess those cites and see if there are any others.

The definition in the entry is "beach".

This fits the profile of the type of terms that our anonymous Turkish protologism purveyor targets: the word for beach one finds in dictionaries is plaj, which is an obvious borrowing of French plage- they specialize in trying to substitute terms manufactured from items in various Turkic languages for common Turkish words whose etymology isn't Turkish enough for their taste. The dictionary app on my computer has a verb çimmek (“to bathe (in a creek, stream, etc.)”), which could be the source for this, along with -er and -lik. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:39, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are at least two citations from Google Books, so stop saying gibberish words and shut up. — This unsigned comment was added at 2001:a98:c060:80:7948:8701:2669:dbc5.

Your theory is wrong. There is already another word 'kumsal' for a beach as a Turkish origin word. --88.251.225.194 06:24, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In what way does that invalid his (Chuck Entz's) theory? Renard Migrant (talk) 13:32, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was aware of that, though it literally means sandy. As for the previous comment: the issue isn't whether it's gibberish, but whether it's really Turkish. If someone were to try to translate beach into Turkish as çimerlik, there's a real possibility that they would either, at best, come across as not knowing Turkish very well, or, at worst, simply not be understood. A language consists of what people actually speak or have spoken in the past, not what someone thinks might be a good idea. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:04, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Kumlu literally means sandy. The definition of kumsal is 2. Denize, göle vb. yerlere girilebilen genellikle kumluk alan, deniz hamamı, kumbaşı, plaj according to the TDK's (Turkish Language Association's) Up-to-date Turkish Dictionary. --88.251.163.12 10:37, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just my two cents. If a word, used in the given language, is attested, for CFI purposes, it's possible to include a word, which is quite rare and native speakers are not very familiar with it. It can be qualified as rare. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:44, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You can look at http://tdk.gov.tr/index.php?option=com_bts&arama=kelime&guid=TDK.GTS.540b8776ea62b5.08911904

plaj, kumsal, kıyı, sahil words are exist but there is no çimerlik. Because çimerlik is Azeri word. So originally is Azeri. Lie of "çimerlik=Turkish" is same personal who prefabricate words of "sınalgı, birdem, özçekmiş, haydavcı, yöndemci, köpyak, düşerge, eğleç, türküm, karabat, yağday, emes, öndürücü, haydamak, birak, dikuçar, beket..." e.t.c --123snake45 (talk) 22:53, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The rules we use are WT:CFI. RFV basically requires someone to cite a word for it not to be deleted. If someone is not offering cites, then there's basically no point in arguing against a word. If there is someone providing cites, then it's irrelevant what any other site says; the question becomes, among other things, if the cite is from an appropriate source and if the word is really used in the text. Words that are actually used will be kept, even if strongly disapproved of by whatever authorities there may be, though a note to that effect is appropriate.--Prosfilaes (talk) 09:16, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

123snake45 is behaving like this because he fabricated many words and those words were not accepted. After this he tries to delete other words that he sees on the forums which people discuss with him because of his absurd words. If you think that pan-Turkists or language purists use this kind of words it is irrevelant with if the citations are valid or not. A word can be used by the nationalists or the communists etc. A dictionary represents a word if that word really exists. I have just added the translations of the citations from Google Books so decide yourselves if they are valid or not. --88.251.163.12 09:28, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The citations look valid, so: RFV-passed. It gets no hits in this Turkish corpus, though, whereas plaj does get hits, so I've marked it as rare and added a synonyms section containing a link to plaj. - -sche (discuss) 21:54, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment about the citations: There were 6 citations:

I couldn't find one of them, the one of 1990: if anyone can post a link to the page scan, I'll take a look at that too.
The 2013 citation [24] is not at Google Books, but it is the website of a journal that's also printed; it shows the contents of that journal, so I'm going to assume that that's ok for CFI purposes.
The 1958 citation is on a non-durably archived website, here [25], but a certain someone (gee, who would that be? ;-) ) has copied that and posted it to Google Books. (!) Copying a forumpost and putting that on Google Books still makes it a forumpost; it's not a printed work as described in CFI.
The 1978 one is a mention (language purification guide of the Turkish Language Association).
The 2007 one has a different meaning. -- Curious (talk) 21:24, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand about the 1958 citation. Do you mean Google Groups? In any case, there is nothing about the form of any work in CFI; it's about whether it's durably archived. Forum posts, like personal letters and diaries, are perfectly eligible if they are durably archived (like the use of the diary of Samuel Pepys on camlet and cittern).--Prosfilaes (talk) 13:58, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think they meant Google Books. The mere fact of appearing on Google Books or Google Groups doesn't make something durably archived. We accept Google Books cites because we presume that they're just digital copies ofprinted works that are also durably archived elsewhere. We accept Usenet cites from Google Groups, not because they're on Google Groups, but because they're on Usenet, which is copied all over the place and impossible to really delete. If non-durably-archived material can be submitted to Google Books, its occurrence on Google Books doesn't, by itself, make it durably-archived- a copyright owner can have it removed. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:48, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not seeing anything on Google Books. Looking and thinking about it again, it makes no sense; how can a 1958 citation be a forum post?!? That page seems to have the entire (almost certainly illegal) copy of a book Yılanların Öcü by Fakir Baykurt, which is indeed on Google Books in several editions, though I can't get Google Books to bring up anything that looks like that citation. Yılanların Öcü is durably archived; Worldcat lists 45 libraries as holding copies, and I'm guess there would be a lot more if Turkish libraries were regularly listed by Worldcat (no Turkish libraries are in that 45). The question is if the cite accurately quotes the book and uses the word in that sense, not whether it's durably archived.

It's easy to post a message on Usenet, and that satisfies CFI. It's conceivably and easily abusable, and obviates worrying about people adding non-durably-archived stuff to Google Books to generate a cite for Wiktionary.--Prosfilaes (talk) 17:25, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I provided link to a scan in Citations:çimerlik for the 1990, Aziz Nesin quote.

As for the discussion about 1958, Fakir Baykurt quotation, here is a dubious looking entry in Google books, discovered via google:"Şehrin peştemal kuşanmış". Nonetheless, the 1958 Fakir Baykurt quotation is not independent of the 1998, Fakir Baykurt quotation per having the same author (WT:CFI#Independent)), so let's just leave it out of discussion.

Three suitable attesting quotations seem to be there in Citations:çimerlik: 1998, Fakir Baykurt; 2013, Reşad Mecid; 1990, Aziz Nesin. User:Curious, can you see the scan of the 1990, Aziz Nesin quotations? --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:23, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

salad tossing

Is this attested to mean anilingus? I find mentions in Google books, but don't know how to find uses. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:29, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Uses of the phrase "tossed his salad" are easy enough to find on b.g.c; is that close enough? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 18:55, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That would be the verb toss salad or toss someone's salad, IMHO. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:03, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Here are three uses of "salad tossing" as a noun: [26], [27], [28]. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 19:07, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

chicken liver

Any quotations attesting this to mean coward? Was in Wikisaurus, present in at least one online thesaurus for "coward". --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:19, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but offhand sounds quite dated. Evokes a sort of 'Classic Westerns' kinda feel, like something you'd hear in old movies made in the 1960's (but set in the 1860-1890's), or Gunsmoke. Leasnam (talk) 18:59, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Aside from hearing it said by other children in the US in the 60s, there's this, this, and this. There's also this and this, but they're hyphenated. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:01, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It seems like a childish blend of chicken and lily-livered, influenced by literal chicken liver. DCDuring TALK 22:26, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

atravesimiento

A Luciferwildcat entry tagged for speedy deletion by User:Peter Bowman as not existing in the Spanish language. I haven't had time this morning to check thoroughly, so I brought it here. Given LW's track record, I won't be surprised if this fails. Also included:

Chuck Entz (talk) 13:55, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the gramatically correct form would be atravesamiento (first conjugation ending -ar + suffix -miento = -amiento). Although not noted in the RAE dictionary, there are some hits in CORPES and CREA and the term (spelled with an a) seems to be used in Latin America. Peter Bowman (talk) 16:07, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah they're spelling mistakes; move to 'a' forms (atravesamiento) and kill the redirects. Renard Migrant (talk) 17:34, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

cervezería

Tagged for speedy deletion by User:Peter Bowman, so I brought it here, just to be fair. This one looks like it's attested, but it would be useful to know whether it's a misspelling or an alternative form (the authoritative RAE dictionary online only recognizes cervecería). Chuck Entz (talk) 14:03, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to be real but obsolete. Perhaps archaic would be a better tag because it seems to appear in at least one place name (hence the hits in running English texts). Renard Migrant (talk) 01:24, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Google hits I get seem to be chiefly in the names of pubs. --Hekaheka (talk) 23:48, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

October 2014

libertarian

Anarchist and socialist? Seems contradictory. WikiWinters (talk) 00:31, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It would probably help to have two more clearly distinct senses of socialism. There is the Marxist sense, which is The Government Owns Everything For Your Own Good, Comrade, which is the source of the American political boo-word ("Obamacare is creeping socialism!!")

The other is the softer understanding of a general ethos of helping your neighbours and them helping you: working for a generally social benefit. So a capital-S Socialist Anarchist is a contradiction in terms: someone who wants to pull down government in order to ... build an overarching all-controlling government. The soft sense, on the other hand, is someone who wants to bring down government in the expectation that people will naturally work together for communal benefit without a government getting in the way. (This tends to go with a belief that government tends to be captured by oligarchy sooner or later, so that corporate-controlled government is actively working against the common good as seen from street-level). As opposed to the "every man for themselves" anarchist; such as the Randian, for whom everyone should be selfish and greedy and unrestrained by the needs of those around them, and that this is a good thing; or the caricature anarchist who just wants to watch stuff burn.

--Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 01:18, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is such a thing as left-libertarianism. bd2412 T 03:29, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed: libertarian (= seeking individual liberty) does not necessarily mean Libertarian (= Ayn Rand was right about everything). --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 04:34, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good Hell, I hope that you are trolling. If not, then I am sad to say that you people are bloody ignorant. Socialists, communists, and anarchists (which I consider synonymous) seek the elimination of the state, not the strengthening of it. Look it up. Most anarchists therefore consider ‘anarcho‐socialism’ a pleonasm, in contrast to anarcho-capitalism, which is definitely oxymoronic because capitalism requires the state so that capitalism can sustain itself. The concept of ‘state‐socialism’ was a nonsense concept fabricated by Vladimir Lenin to attract the workers to his movement, and Leninism and its successor ideologies have very little to do with Marxism. Most people have no clue what socialism, communism, or anarchism are. Influential people obfuscated the concept because it could be very dangerous to their power. --Romanophile (talk) 04:12, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad you are so firmly convinced that Socialism as exemplified in the USSR doesn't mean what the Soviets thought it meant. (Or that it can't hold two, even potentially contradictory, meanings depending on context.) And that Socialism means exactly the same thing as Communism... in all possible contexts, I assume? Also that Anarchism means only what you think it means, and that there are not such things as anarchists who desire the loss of government so that they can as individuals do and take whatever they want, or people who may be unclear on the inherent contradictions between capitalism per se and anarchism per se, but still identify as "anarcho-capitalists". Are there any other political terms you think everyone except you gets wrong? --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 04:31, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The point is, anarcho‐socialism is not oxymoronic, and your idea of ‘Marxist socialism’ is obviously tosh. Even if you think that it’s still a valid meaning, it can’t possibly be the only meaning. Also ‘…everyone except you…’, that’s wrong, too. [29] --Romanophile (talk) 05:06, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I never said it was the only meaning. It would seem to be you having the problem with the concept of polysemy. The World Socialist Movement doesn't get to define what the word is and isn't allowed to mean either. (I am sympathetic to socialism myself, but the "About Us" page of the World Socialism Movement has as much of a monopoly on the word "socialism" as does the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. That is: none.) --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 05:14, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The sense of "libertarian" nominated for RFV is "An anarchist, typically with socialist implications." Please let us have attesting quotations, and, they absent, let us eventually fail this RFV. I am suspicious of the sense, since dictionaries don't have it. google books:"libertarian", google groups:"libertarian", “libertarian”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:41, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I've added a couple which clearly put libertarians, anarchists and socialists into the same semiotic pot, and a couple more which I'll add here rather than there, because they are not the noun, but used adjectivally:
- 2011 Carissa Honeywell, A British Anarchist Tradition: Herbert Read, Alex Comfort and Colin Ward, p. 146
  He highlighted libertarian traditions of socialism and linked them to anarchism in the British context.
- 2012 David Goodway, Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward p.15
  The Labour Emancipation League had been founded in the East End in 1882 and, while never calling itself anarchist, was always libertarian socialist and became anti-parliamentarian, as expressed in Joseph Lane's notable An Anti-Statist, Communist Manifesto of 1887.
--Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 04:10, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The three quotations present in the entry do not attested the sense, IMHO. I mean 1973 Eugene Lunn, 2009 Peter Marshall and 2012 Wilbur R. Miller. Consider the third one: "While anarchism and socialist libertarians have a rich history of revolutionary thinkers ...": how do you infer that "anarchism" and "socialist libertarians" are terms intended to mean the same in the sentence? --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:06, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Obviously, I think they rather do. They are all used in the context of Anarchist/Socialist theory, and are contrasting specific subtypes of that ideology. The last reference, the one you quote, is also contrasting socialist libertarians against right-libertarians. The preceding sentence reads "Socialist libertarianism sounds like anarchy, and for good reason; in fact anarchists began using the term libertarian in the mid-1800s, far before the right-wing usage in the United States that began in the 1950s."[30] Maybe that would have been a better quote? But it explicitly draws out socialism, anarchism, and libertarianism as different strands of the same basic ideology. The 2009 quote also explicitly contrasts socialist libertarianism against authoritarian socialism, which contrast Seth seemed to have such difficulty with in the conversation above. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 20:08, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also: "how do you infer that "anarchism" and "socialist libertarians" are terms intended to mean the same in the sentence?"

Semantics. If they were different movements, it would say that "... anarchism and socialist libertarians have rich histories ...". As it gives the two terms a singular history of revolutionary thinkers, it follows that they are different aspects of the same thing, QED. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 21:52, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
What about this: "The Asian civilizations of India, China, Korea, and Japan each have a rich history of design development extending back for thousands of years", boldface mine. Looks like a refutation of your argument to me. To find more sentences like that, check google books:"have a rich history". --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:25, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You yourself bolded the difference. Each: "The phrase beginning with each identifies a set of items wherein the words following each identify the individual elements by their shared characteristics. The phrase is grammatically singular in number, so if the phrase is the subject of a sentence, its verb is conjugated into a third-person singular form."

With the "each" the singular subject "a rich history" applies to each individual civilisation of India, China, Korea and Japan. Without it, "The Asian civilizations of India, China, Korea, and Japan have a rich history" implies a singular shared history between them as a group. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 22:44, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You must be kidding me by now. There is "Shreveport and Bossier City have a rich history [...]"; find other quotations at google books:"have a rich history". Your argument, which by the way was syntactic rather than semantic, is flawed. In general, a phrase of the form "X and Y have a rich history" does not suggest X and Y to be synonyms. As for "have rich histories", few people write that even when the subject is plural: have a rich history, have rich histories at Google Ngram Viewer. When the subject is singular, it is google books:"has a rich history", with "has" rather than "have". --Dan Polansky (talk) 06:33, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oh for Deity's sake: the references are giving the history of anarchists and socialists and calling them libertarians, and somehow you can't extract any meaning from that? Do you think that someone is talking about A and B having a history of C because there isn't a semantic connection between them? If that is the case, please describe the sort of source and/or wording which could possibly convince you.

Moreover, that more people fail to observe the singular verb with multiple subjects and 'each' doesn't stop it working in that way. Arguably the bit about verb conjugation in the Usage Notes of "each" is not accurate, certainly not for "has". I still maintain that "A and B have a rich history" implies a shared history between them; where the technically correct "A and B each has a rich history" and the more common in use "A and B each have a rich history" both imply separate and distinct histories. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 12:37, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

bol

The second etymology, "excrescence on the trunk of a tree usually covering a knot", has just been added by an anon. All I could find in a cursory search is bole (with an e) as another word for tree trunk. Since the IP also added a Maori translation, maybe this sense of bol is specific to New Zealand? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 09:59, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm think anon meant burl, which could easily be pronounced "bol", and may have such a pronunciation-derived spelling somewhere, though I haven't found it yet. DCDuring TALK 13:51, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

female penis

This failed RFV before; now there are quotations in the entry, which I have copied to Citations:female penis. The quotations are inadequate, IMHO. First, the quotation "The correct anatomical term to describe [...] is the female penis." is a mention; any quotation of the form "The correct term for X is Y" is a mention of Y, while it is use of X. The second quotation actually uses the term "miniature female penis" to refer to clitoris, not "female penis"; it becomes apparent if you try to substitude, and get "miniature clitoris", which was not intended; in any case, it is a one-off metaphor and not the use of the term "female penis" to refer to clitoris before clitoris was introduced to the context. As for the third quotation, substitution again clarifies what is going on: In "The female penis is something that physically disrupts the idea that men and women have sex because they were built to fit together", this is really an abbreviation of The [idea of clitoris being a] female penis ..."; substitution yields nonsense: "The clitoris is something that physically disrupts the idea that men and women have sex because they were built to fit together". I motion to speedy delete as unattested term that failed RFV before until the author adds acceptable quotations to Citations:female penis. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:24, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have added two more cites; not sure how acceptable they are but they do allude to the clitoris. Zeggazo (talk) 08:24, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As for "I stroked each side of her labia majora [...] before homing back on what had, by now, swollen to become her female penis with it's familiar Germanic helmet—albeit in miniature—which I now rolled around between my thumb and fore-finger": That is a one-off metaphor not using "female penis" to refer to clitoris; the sentence indicates that only after it has swollen has the clitoris become "her female penis", immediately continuing the metaphor with "familiar Germanic helmet", which does not attest "Germanic helmet" to refer to a part of clitoris. Also notice the word "become"; if "female penis" would mean clitoris, the sentence would suggest that clitoris has become clitoris, a nonsense. --Dan Polansky (talk) 06:48, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Dan Polansky about the inadequacy of the quotations; of the five currently at Citations:female penis, I think that only one ("...flails on the floor after having had her female penis savagely torn from her body...") supports the definition in the entry. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 19:59, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

house warming

Rfv-sense: The act of welcoming a person/family to their newly purchased or newly rented home.

Not found in Onelook. The only support which I could find for this sense is this comment in the Wikipedia article for Housewarming party: "In some communities, neighbors may bring the housewarming party to the new residents to welcome them." --Hekaheka (talk) 22:41, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The with-space spelling is certainly less common. “housewarming”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. and “house-warming”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. find just few lemmings. This is certainly attestable. DCDuring TALK 23:50, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

COCA has 84 instances of housewarming, 11 of house-warming, 5 of house warming. All three spellings are used as nominals and attributively. DCDuring TALK 23:58, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not doubting the spelling, but the sense. The first sense is "party to celebrate moving into a new home", which I think is the usual one. --Hekaheka (talk) 00:52, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'd not be surprised that it existed. I take it that any of the three spelling could provide the attestation, not just the least common one, which we call the lemma for some reason. DCDuring TALK 01:21, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think I understand the problem with the entry. We should not have an adjective section, as the term does not meet tests for adjectivity such as comparability/gradability or predicate use, nor does it have any distinct meaning when used attributively. The challenged noun sense is the original sense of housewarming, usually used attributively and usually uncountable when a nominal. This is the sense used in housewarming party and housewarming gift. The "party" sense is a countable sense derived from the first, when housewarming came to take formal shape as a party.

If my view is correct, the adjective section should be RfVed to confirm that it does not meet the tests and the challenged sense should have a label (usually used attributively) and should appear before the "party sense". DCDuring TALK 01:52, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Or not. A "feast/merrymaking" sense goes back at least to Samuel Johnson. So housewarming party is a pleonasm. The adjective sense should still be RfVed IMO. DCDuring TALK 02:33, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Etymonline says 1570. It looks to me like that's the original sense, which was extended metaphorically to mean a welcome, and the metaphorical sense is what's used attributively. The question is where along the way (if anywhere) has there been a split into separate senses or words? Chuck Entz (talk) 02:44, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Can one now have a housewarming without a party, a feast, or merry-making? I think so. Certainly one can give a housewarming gift without there being festivities. That Cambridge has housewarming (party) as an entry, even though it should be a pleonasm, suggests to me that housewarming has the challenged sense. Oxford has a definition "A party celebrating a move to a new home" and gives as examples sentences with "housewarming party", ie, its definition is not substitutable into the very usage examples it provides. DCDuring TALK 03:32, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think this noun sense is essentially the same as the first noun sense, where party should be interpreted broadly to include small social gatherings. Adjective should get terminated with extreme prejudice. Make housewarming the main form per DCDuring. Renard Migrant (talk) 23:24, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

thanatomicrobiome

There are purported cites in the entry, but each needs to be reviewed to determine whether it is "durably archived" and to be formatted to allow for broad participation in any decisions about whether this merits "hot word" status before it would otherwise be included (after a year has passed), assuming the validity of the cites. DCDuring TALK 13:22, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've formatted the citations from print journals. All are from articles reporting on the same piece of research. While I'd say we should keep this for now, the important part in a year will be seeing if other research groups use the word in scientific papers (or if the characters in CSI start profiling victim's thanatomicrobiomes...) Smurrayinchester (talk) 06:07, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Are you sure that they are in print editions? In the past, I've assumed that online content provided by a title that was also in print was in print/durably archived. I no longer think such an assumption is justified, but I don't know how to make a determination one way or the other. DCDuring TALK 06:19, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The journal citation: definitely. The New Scientist citation: definitely (it says "This article appeared in print" at the bottom. The Forensics Magazine citation: almost definitely (it's tagged with a reference to the issue it appeared in). In general though, I don't think having an even more restrictive criterion for web citations is really going to improve the quality or reliability of Wiktionary, since we're just going to lose whole swathes of high-quality sources of citations for relatively little gain. If nothing else, it's fair to assume that any reasonably well-trafficked website will be put in the Internet Archive and copied by a hundred spam mirrors. Smurrayinchester (talk) 07:45, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That's a matter for WT:BP and even a VOTE. It might be time to revisit the question. DCDuring TALK 12:48, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh come on, we've never made any effort to define 'durably archived'. It wouldn't be revisiting the issue of what durably archived means, it would be a start on the matter. Renard Migrant (talk) 13:11, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Renard Migrant We have what is more useful than a verbal definition: an operational one: We accept as sources any print work that would be found in a library, any print journal or newspaper, any Usenet group. Folks have made arguments for other things but haven't convinced very many people. DCDuring TALK 18:03, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello... does this work? . I am the author of the word "thanatomicrobiome". I created the original web page... however someone keeps changing it... Can we please leave the references as is...?

The other person keeps adding news paper articles... does the rag newspaper "Montgomery Advertiser" count as a real publication? I do not think so.. but I have NOT deleted it. Can we please discuss? panoble@washington.edu Thanks Peter

Here they are:

~~===References===~~

[31] Peter A. Noble, A NSF proposal I wrote: "Life after death: The role and composition of the thanatomicrobiome in the decomposition of mammalian organs", October, 2013.
[32] Can, I., G.T. Javan, A.E. Pozhitkov and P.A. Noble. Distinctive thanatomicrobiome signatures found in the blood and internal organs of humans. Journal of Microbiological Methods 2014 106: 1-7.
[33], Peter A. Noble, Introducing the Thanatomicrobiome, MicrobialWorld August 15, 2014
[34] Anna Williams, Death: the great bacterial takeover, Your death microbiome could catch your killer. New Scientist, August 28, 2014.
[35] Siouxsie Wiles, Monday Micro – the microbiome of death! SciBlog: Infectious Thoughts, September, 1, 2014.
[36], Jesse Jenkins, The Death Microbiome: Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Biotechniques - The International Journal for Life Science Method, September 11, 2014.
[37] Randall Mayes, The Death Microbiome Could Inform Forensic Science And Medicine. Design & Trend, September, 11, 2014.
[38] Gulnaz Javan, The Dirty World of Body Farm Microbes. Forensic Science Magazine, September 30, 2014.
[39] Brad Harper, ASU researchers hope to help solve homicides. Montgomery Advertiser, July 8, 2014
The Montgomery Advertiser is the largest daily newspaper in Alabama and it's won three Pulitzer Prizes, so it definitely counts as a real publication, though here at Wiktionary all that matters to us is that it's durably archived (a term which we haven't formally defined but roughly means you could go to a library and find the publication in question—in other words, we prefer print publications like books, magazines, and newspapers to websites). As for other people changing the entry you started, one of the most basic rules for participating in a wiki like Wiktionary is accepting that other people will edit pages that you start. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 17:05, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The added citations do not include quoted text from the article (evidencing use of the word), so they need checking and filling out. The user adding them has just been putting summaries in his/her own words. Equinox ◑ 17:19, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the putative quotations from the entry in the mainspace; no more elegant solution comes to mind. It was only when I read your comment that I realized that these were not really quotations. The items are still in the page history, so the information is not lost, and he who wants to provide proper quotations should have a reasonable easy time doing so. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:52, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first two citations on the citations page ("Distinctive thanatomicrobiome", "their thanatomicrobiome") are durable uses, AFAICT, but both are from August 2014. I reckon the thing to do is let this sit in hot-word limbo until late 2015 and then look for current uses. - -sche (discuss) 21:14, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

kol çekmek

There is no that word at the Turkish!!!! Somebodies are deleting rfv! --123snake45 (talk) 00:49, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are already citations. --198.27.126.148 08:12, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The entry was never de-tagged. 123snake45 I imagine you just forgot to list it (until now). Renard Migrant (talk) 11:50, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are already citations for the English senses, not the Turkish.--Prosfilaes (talk) 19:46, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You think the citations in Citations:kol çekmek are in English? Renard Migrant (talk) 20:05, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, got confused. I thought that was a comment on kodak.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:09, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RFV passed: some quotations at Citations:kol çekmek. I cannot judge their quality or fitness, but they do seem to be in Turkish, of the challenged term, and from permanently recorded media. Until someone challenges these quotations, this is a pass. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:29, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: The standard word that everybody uses for "to sign" is imzalamak (or imza atmak). Two of the citations are ok. Of the remaining 4 "citations", 1 is non-durably archived, and 3 are dictionary entries (Ottoman Turkish (2x), regional colloquial Turkish (1x)). If a third citation can be found, the entry can be kept, but needs to be tagged with "rare" (and possibly also with "archaic"?). -- Curious (talk) 20:50, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Added third citation from Google Books. --2001:A98:C060:80:5D7B:DD53:C14A:E234 09:35, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fourth citation from Google Books --2001:A98:C060:80:31EF:CEE0:F5AE:802E 09:42, 25 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"RVF passed" 's decision is false. --123snake45 (talk) 20:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV passed 2: the entry was tagged as rare and has "imzalamak" entered as a synonym; it now has additional quotations from Google books at Citations:kol çekmek. Above, native Turkish speaker User:Curious confirms at least two of the quotations. I have ranked the dictionary entry "imzalamak: kol çekmek, kol koymak" as a use, not mention, since the discussed term is in the definition rather than being the term defined, and thus is used to convey meaning. I remind the reader that the English Wiktionary is a descriptivist dictionary, describing language usage as it can actually be found in sources used as evidence, even rare usage, using WT:ATTEST as criteria. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:43, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

November 2014

phalacrophobia

This looks like another dictionary-only phobia- everything in Google Books seems to be a mention. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:11, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is what I found: [40], [41], [42]. The first one is solid but the other two are on the fence between use and mention. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 20:24, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

generative leadership

I read a fuck of a lot of books and this entry is a strange mystery to me. What does it mean? Equinox ◑ 03:16, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Read this to see an explanation using real English sentences that actually mean things. The term looks citeable, but the definition given is only decipherable if you already know what it means and read between the lines. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:40, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I overlooked the second definition, which doesn't seem to mean anything at all. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:45, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Creating patterns that enable adaptive capacity across a system" sounds more like a tortured definition of fault-tolerant network design than anything to do with leadership. Smurrayinchester (talk) 08:47, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's very difficult to understand. If it's an exchange, what sort of exchange? In the sense of a discussion, or the sense of a swap? Renard Migrant (talk) 18:12, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

smurfberry

Only in the Smurfs universe? Needs to meet WT:FICTION. Equinox ◑ 17:36, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have added some External links to meet the criteria of attestation. The smurfberry seen as a berry is, without any doubt, part of a fictional universe. The game curreny, however, isn't fiction at all. It was hard reality and quite a shock for a number of parents a couple of years ago.--93.193.8.229 19:25, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The links only provide support for the game currency. The fictional sense needs cites that do not explicitly refer to the fictional universe: that's what we mean when we say it has "entered the language". See, for example, kryptonite. Choor monster (talk) 01:23, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The usual interpretation is that the citations need to be on the page or the citations page, and they aren't. Renard Migrant (talk) 23:14, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

For 93.193.8.229 'fictional universe' refers to the content not the medium! A book made of paper, the paper isn't fictional but the information contained in the page may well be! Renard Migrant (talk) 16:12, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify. Citations don't actually have to be anywhere, unless challenged. There are only 2 kryptonite cites, for example, but since everybody knows it has entered the language, nobody is challenging it for the third to make it official. Referring to links is common during discussion, helping others judge the challenged term. At the moment, smurfberry the currency seems secure, but the fictional berry remains unsupported. Choor monster (talk) 16:31, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

sámi

I can't find any reference to this as a separate noun. The usual term for a Sami person seems to be sápmelaš, while sámi is only the genitive form of Sápmi (“Lapland”). —CodeCa t 15:33, 9 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

An additional note: Judging from w:se:Sámit, it seems that the plural sámit is used to refer to the Sami collectively, as a people. But I haven't seen it used in the singular with this meaning so far. —CodeCa t 15:43, 9 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sámi is unambiguously the accusative-genitive of Sápmi. This word in general is cited to have also the sense "a Sámi person" e.g. at the Neahttadigisánit dictionary, so I suspect citations for that can be found. I suspect someone has been confused with the attributive use of the noun though in adding a lemma for the inflected form. --Tropylium (talk) 16:44, 9 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We are now talking of sámi with minuscule "s". According to Finnish wiktionary (Northern Sami Wiktionary is still in incubator stage) and our entry Sami, sámi is an adjective, which of course does not necessarily exclude other senses. I changed the entry accordingly. --Hekaheka (talk) 18:35, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's not really any better, I'm afraid. The -m- in "sámi" is a weak-grade consonant, so it doesn't normally appear in the nominative form (gradation in Northern Sami is like Finnish, but all the consonants gradate), while it does appear in the genitive. So I think that Sápmi and Sámi relate to each other in the same way as Finnish Suomi and Suomen (and quite likely have the same origin too, but that's another matter). The difference is that in Northern Sami, the lowercase version also refers to the people, but only in plural. Maybe the genitive is an exception to that, and this is simply how Northern Sami handles plurale tantum nouns (i.e. no singular forms but there is still a genitive). —CodeCa t 19:01, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's true that sámi is the genitive form of sápmi, but that does not automatically make sámi invalid as a word. Flipping through the scarce information available of Sami language in the internet I found several occasions in which sámi is defined as an adjective. I would assume that the genitive has acquired a new meaning at some point of the development of the language. I'm not a Sami expert but I'm quite certain that you aren't one either. --Hekaheka (talk) 15:23, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It does exist as a word, but I think people are misinterpreting it as a separate lemma. This is not surprising given that many people interested in Sami languages and culture would be speakers of other languages which don't have such things as case systems. If an English speaker saw "suomen kieli" and knew that it meant "Finnish language" then they might be tempted to think that "suomen" is an adjective meaning "Finnish". I suspect something like that may be going on here.

My own interpretation is that sámit is a plurale tantum referring to Sami people, but its singular genitive form is used attributively. I think User:Tropylium knows more about this than anyone else, so his views would be welcome. —CodeCa t 15:53, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is what I was saying: sámi is, in the cited sense, definitely not a lemma. Northern Sami has both attributive and predicative forms of adjectives, the latter are taken as the lemma, and this is an attributive.

It'd still take further verification to determine if the adjectival use actually checks out though. I hope our small number of Category:User se-2 people might have better knowledge of this yet. --Tropylium (talk) 17:28, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean with "In the cited sense not a lemma"? The article was originally written of sámi as if it were a noun. However, based on what I've read, it seemed that it would be an adjective and I have changed the entry accordingly. Are you saying it's not an adjective either? --Hekaheka (talk) 00:56, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We seem to be mixing together far too many different questions by now. Let's try to be explicit about what we are discussing.

Semantics.
- Sápmi, uppercase, exists in at least one sense: 1. "the land of the Sami people" (proper noun) (NB: not "Lapland", which covers also traditional Finnish and Swedish territories!)
- The word (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /saːpmi/ is moreover used also in two other senses: 2. "Sami" (adjective); 3. "a Sami person" (common noun).
Capitalization.
- I am still not able to take a definite stance on if the two latter senses should be uppercase or lowercase. I have by now checked a couple other dictionaries, which all seem to only report the capitalized Sápmi (acc. Sámi); I have also checked some grammars, which seem to at least use the word in these senses as the lowercase sápmi (acc. sámi). Probably we should dig into some Sami media for citations.
- Another question I do not know the answer to is if there is any semantic difference depending on the capitalization.
- I do know that sámit, "Sami people", is always lowercase.
Lemmatization.
- If it turns out that lowercase sápmi "a Sami person" is valid, then probably sámit "Sami people" needs to be treated as simply its plural, and not a separate plurale tantum (cf. e.g. Brits, Finns).
- The form ‹sámi› is definitely not a lemma, but merely an inflected form of ‹sápmi›.

Am I being clear enough yet?

(I think we went off the rails already at the beginning — I interpreted CodeCat as asking whether the accusative deserves an entry as a separate lemma, while I now think she was asking if the meaning "a Sami person" is correct; and then Hekaheka introduced the question of capitalization.) --Tropylium (talk) 11:44, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

windjamming

Rfv-sense

I added this sense, but I wonder if it's "dictionary only" because I can't find actual usages, so I'm inclined to delete it unless someone else can verify that the word is actually used with this meaning. Dbfirs 08:56, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

One citation:

The circus band was elevated from strong-lipped windjamming to artistic renditions of classical overtures and standard selections

However, it looks like in the musical sense, it's usually written hyphenated. It also specifically seems to mean "playing a wind instrument badly" (possibly, it even refers to a specific fault that wind players make):

When he plays you hear no whistling and wind-jamming, none of the little mannerisms that ordinarily make flute-playing a trifle unpleasant.
Where Buescher True-Tone Instruments predominated there was a noticeable absence of that blatant wind-jamming that often makes the brasses sound a trifle unpleasant when amateurs play
This includes two French horns - played by troupers who are good - but the rest are all melophone or rain-catchers (bell ups) of the old style, and when they put on a wind-jamming contest you can bet the barking irons are there.

Smurrayinchester (talk) 14:35, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. (I obviously wasn't using the best search request in Google.) I'll leave the sense in the entry and remove the rfv.

... waiting until Thursday 20th in case anyone else wishes to comment here ... Dbfirs 16:39, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

stroef

Dutch for rigid. An anon removed it with the edit summary “That's wrong.” — Ungoliant ^(falai) 19:36, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think difficult, tight, stiff, rough , but better to wait for a native speaker...those can be synonymous with "rigid" Leasnam (talk) 22:10, 19 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The primary meaning is still "not smooth, not flowing/sliding freely" but this can be extended to meaning rigid in the sense of "difficult to move". It doesn't mean rigid in the meaning "not bendable". At least not literally; perhaps when referring to a person's willingness to cooperate, stroef and star may be close to synonyms (I'm not sure though). —CodeCa t 23:30, 19 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

postdisco

Tons of Google books hits, but when you click through, almost all of them are actually scannos of "post-disco" (and lots of them are actually from the same book of supposedly copyrighted Wikipedia-rips reuploaded hundreds of times to flood Amazon). I can only find one that's actually "postdisco": "Tina Turner, a veteran soul performer who had long fronted the band led by her one-time husband, the R & B and rock pioneer Ike Turner, refashioned herself into a postdisco diva" Are there any others? Smurrayinchester (talk) 09:16, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Actually there are a fair few unhyphenated occurrences in Google Books. Added two to the adjective, but they might apply to the noun too/instead. May look harder later. Equinox ◑ 13:33, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

שׂימחת־תּורה

I'm not sure about this spelling in Yiddish. --Wiki Tiki 89 18:40, 21 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like an error. Embryomystic (talk • contribs), what source did you use? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 21:47, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I can't seem to find a source, and it may be an error on my part, though there are a number of examples of it that come up if you google the phrase (and I don't mean just Wiktionary and mirrors thereof). If I've erred, feel free to remove the entry of course. I won't argue with you. embryomystic (talk) 22:24, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you found examples, what is your question? I checked, and it showed up on The Forward, and it's an entry in [43]. The non-Hebrew spelling reflects the Yiddish pronunciation. I was privileged to hear a friend last month, a week before his hasanah, do the complete song quoted in fragments at The Forward. And yes, his fluent-from-birth Yiddish pronunciations were distinctly non-Hebrew. Here are links to another song, along with this Yiddish spelling: [44] and [45]. The latter is a blog, but you can see it's quoting from a recording. Choor monster (talk) 18:35, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I looked it up in about 6 or 7 dictionaries, including Yiddish-Hebrew, Yiddish-Russian, Yiddish-German. Also, I looked up Chaim Grade Di Agune, since it has a big Simchat Torah scene. All of them had the Hebrew spelling exclusively. Choor monster (talk) 20:05, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yiddish dictionaries all copy each other, so it could be a "dictionary-only" spelling. Where did you look up Di Agune? Also, what do you mean by the "Hebrew spelling"? Both spellings are used in Hebrew, but the one with the extra yud is by far less common. --Wiki Tiki 89 00:12, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've only seen it without the yud, so I assume that is the Hebrew spelling, and the with-yud version, based on this discussion was, I presumed, a Yiddish-only spelling. As I said, the with-yud version was not in the dictionaries, and not in Grade's novel. I looked up Di Agune, like all the dictionaries (other than the linked-to online dictionary), in a library. Choor monster (talk) 15:42, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, so I misunderstood you. I have two Yiddish dictionaries, both of which are fairly prescriptive and spell it with the yud in the lemma, but give שׂמחה as an alternative form of שׂימחה. So I was referring to the with-yud spelling (the one nominated here) as the potentially dictionary-only spelling. --Wiki Tiki 89 17:28, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I will point out that the library had four editions of Harkavy; I only checked the most recent. I will probably look again later this week. Choor monster (talk) 14:14, 3 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The 1910 version is available online: http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/harkavy/index.utf8.html .--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:00, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The 1910 one gives the spelling שמחת־תורה. --Wiki Tiki 89 01:22, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

raon tionnsgalach

Scottish Gaelic. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 21:36, 21 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Its meaning is clear -- "industrial area" -- but I can't find any attestations online of that phrase. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 21:56, 21 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Came across it in Lochgilphead [46]. --Droigheann (talk) 23:02, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The given synonym, ionad-gnìomhachais, is clearly in use: a Google search turns up various Scottish tourist brochures, BBC news articles, etc. But, unhelpfully, there is nothing in Google Books or Usenet. I suppose if someone can find a physical book that contains a mention of either of these terms, that will be helpful (as Scottish Gaelic is LDL). This, that and the other (talk) 08:25, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

First Amendment

RFV the adjectival senses: "Of or relating to the US Bill of Rights" and "Of or relating to free speech in general". The second one should be relatively easy to do, but I doubt the first one is attestable at all. — Keφr 08:26, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relating not just to the First Amendment? I'd like to see both attested and as true adjectives in both senses, or even "of or relating to the First Amendment" as a true adjective. DCDuring TALK 11:58, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I have seen "First Amendment" used in contexts where there is no government involved at all, which means it cannot refer to the literal sense ("Congress shall make no law…"). Not that I like this usage, but I think it plausible that it can be demonstrated.

Also, does "attestation as a true adjective" mean that you require citations of predicative uses? Obviously "First Amendment" cannot be graded. — Keφr 12:45, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Are you some kind of Constitutional literalist? I suppose you don't believe in a Constitutional right to privacy either. But seriously, […] .

I think we can find use of the noun applied to free speech of all kinds, even in a non-governmental context (eg, school or university rules, non-governmental public meetings, child-parent relationships), ie, there is a missing sense of the noun. If there is such use, then that also covers attributive use in that sense. But I'm more skeptical about First Amendment referring to the entire Bill of Rights, either as a noun or an adjective.

Predicate use is usually the most abundant true-adjective use, though it can be a bit tedious to sift through the raw hits to find the good ones.

WordNet supports the more general 'free expression/free speech' sense of the term with this definition: "an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of free expression; includes freedom of assembly and freedom of the press and freedom of religion and freedom of speech;" DCDuring TALK 13:23, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think the de facto adjective test for English is gradable use, or non-gradable use where it cannot be a noun as no such noun exists. Renard Migrant (talk) 17:49, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Absence of gradability is not sufficient evidence that something is not an adjective. A sufficiently distinguished sense of the word when used attributively is sufficient to show something is an adjective. Use as predicate is less definitive because some uses as predicate of a word that is at least sometimes a noun don't feel (God help me!) like adjective use. DCDuring TALK 18:04, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just out of curiosity, can you think of an example of a predicative use of a word that doesn't feel like an adjective? —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 22:23, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In "The sidewalk is cement", cement doesn't 'feel' much like an adjective to me, but I'd be interested in how others 'feel' it. DCDuring TALK 23:43, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That looks to me like a predicate non-count noun, same as that blue thing is water or this food is fish. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 20:56, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This adjective represent two of the six ever edits by 88.198.175.78 (talk). Look at the other three in the main namespace. I'm sure we're wasting our time here and yet, due process. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:17, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, due process is the Fifth Amendment... ;) - -sche (discuss) 03:19, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

set phrase

2nd sense: "A common expression whose words cannot be replaced by synonymous words without compromising the meaning. " --- Isn't this the definition of "idiom" and actually a special case of the previous definition "A common expression whose wording is not subject to variation"? --Hekaheka (talk) 13:40, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dictionaries that define set phrase often have idiom as the definition or as a synonym. DCDuring TALK 14:05, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If we accept that "set phrase" and "idiom" are synonyms, we still need to judge how many definitions we need. The Onelook dictionaries which list "set phrase" use the following wordings:

Oxford: "An unvarying phrase having a specific meaning, such as “raining cats and dogs,” or being the only context in which a word appears, e.g., “aback” in “take aback.”"
Vocabulary.com, Rhymezone, Free Dictionary and Look WAY up: "An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up."

None of them has two definitions. I'm not convinced we should either. --Hekaheka (talk) 21:53, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If "idiom" is an exact definition of one way people use the term and others use it to mean a particular type of idiom, to wit, "an idiom which allows no substitution of synonyms or insertion of modifiers" and both are attestable, how can we exclude one? Very few people would accept the second as a definition of idiom.

The Gang of Four above are using the WordNet definition, which is exactly the same as one of the WordNet definitions for idiom and indeed for any in the synset consisting of idiom, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, set phrase, phrase.

The Oxford definition is more like the narrower definition, but "unvarying phrase" abstracts from inflection and pluralization, one or both of which may be possible, eg, rain can inflect in rain cats and dogs but neither cat not dog can be in the singular. I didn't find WP much help. DCDuring TALK 23:02, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Laughing while I think about it raining a cat and a dog... :) ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 23:44, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It appears to be essentially the same as definition #1, which is undisputed. Renard Migrant (talk) 10:43, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Part of what adds to the confusion are the usage notes, which present in prose what should be in synonyms and hyponyms sections, once the distinct senses are recognized and straightforwardly defined. DCDuring TALK 13:32, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

'Setness' is something that is not quite as absolute as a naive user of the entry might think. Word order, inflection, grammatical transformations (eg, passivization), substitution of synonyms, insertion of determiners, and insertion of adjectives or other modifiers are all departures from the strictest sense of 'setness'. The set of phrases what allow absolutely no variation is relatively small. ('Kick the bucket' allows some verb inflection. Some proverbs might be absolutely invariant, but are not typical set phrases.) Some of the use of the term set phrase seems to include semantically transparent expressions that are nonetheless "invariant" because of their role as speech acts, broadly defined, or simply by dint of repetition, eg, catchphrases. Moreover, some uses of 'set phrase' seem to refer to expressions that do allow substitution of synonyms though one form is often significantly more common, especially in a specific time period and usage context. Rather than incorporate specific criteria such as "substitution of synonyms" into the definitions, we could use multiple (at least two) definitions as stakes that are not too specific, but near the boundaries of the range of meaning.

How about replacement of the definitions as follows?

An ~~common~~ expression whose wording is ~~not~~ subject to little variation.
Any idiomatic expression ~~A common expression whose words cannot be replaced by synonymous words without compromising the meaning~~.

I know this is RfV, but I am not really happy trying to specifically cite the definitions as currently worded and I would like opinions before changing the entry. DCDuring TALK 14:13, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, your first definition corresponds to my understanding of the meaning. Spinning Spark 17:37, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

tintintin

Attestable?! Has anyone ever said this? It sounds like a joke made up for a book of tongue-twisters. Equinox ◑ 22:38, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is a definite known regional phrase, maybe in rare usage nowadays? (Actually, it was only recent that I've heard of this, so I thought I'd put it on Wiktionary.) Anyway, I've put a cite on the page, but I'm not sure if that's enough as I'm struggling to find it used in the media or books. CokeHanx (talk) 15:38, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think anyone who actually trying to transcribe the Yorkshire dialect (instead of just making a joke) would ever write this as "tintintin" though. It's "'t i'n't in t' tin" (although perhaps with fewer apologetic apostrophes), which means exactly wha i' says on't tin (sorry!). Anyway, found a couple of citations that could fit, but one is immediately explained afterwards and in both cases, the context is "Don't those Tykes speak funny?" 1 2. Smurrayinchester (talk) 16:29, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've added one of those citations (2004), but the other is a mention, not a use. CokeHanx's 2011 citation is likewise a mention, not a use. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 17:05, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a Yorkshireman and it looks like baloney to me. The pronunciation's fractionally off, and more importantly I see no reason anyone would ever write it that way. Renard Migrant (talk) 10:40, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, as another Yorkshireman, I agree that it's a mis-spelling and a misrepresentation, though it might well appear as a puzzle or joke. Dbfirs 17:25, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm finding it hard to understand how this could be a mis-spelling; I thought it were another one of those eye dialect spellings, like (laik = lek = layk) or (thissen = thee sen) for example. The way I see it, there's no standardised form of spellings such as these (as I choose to write them as 'laik' and 'thissen'). It seems alot easier to write it as 'tintintin' rather than ''t i'n't in t' tin' though, even when pronouncing it as just 'tin tin tin'. CokeHanx (talk) 19:28, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well Yorkshire spelling if fairly well standardised in the use of apostrophes, so I repeat my assertion that "tintintin" is both a mis-spelling (in that it doesn't follow established conventions), and a mis-pronunciation in that it sounds like a Southerner's attempt to imitate the dialect. Dbfirs 10:12, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot believe that this is actually up for possible removal. Do youngsters even know how common this used to be, or are they.even from yorkshire? Anyone can be from yorkshire and still never heard the term.

I used to live just outside the Barnsley area and by gum I am not going to see something as funny as this get removed from the internet. It has already been given a source as to where it was used in a book, therefore it is a known spelling, so leave the bloody thing already.

Thank you and goodbye. 94.197.120.170 11:50, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not removal -- that would be "Request for deletion". We are not doubting the existence, just questioning whether it is a dictionary word, and it is borderline. All it needs is one more citation to satisfy our criteria, so I've added one from the Sheffield area. Do Barnsley people actually pronounce it as a series of three stanna? I still think that the spelling is used as a deliberate joke. Tom Fletcher puts just one apostrophe in the "word" in his 1979 Bavarica Anglica. Dbfirs 13:54, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Dbfirs The quotation you've added is a mention, not a use. (See Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion#Conveying meaning.) The 2011 quotation is also a mention, so we still need two more quotations for this to be verified. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 14:06, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you are correct (I'd just come to the same conclusion). I'm not sure whether we'll be able to find actual usages, since it is a joke word. Dbfirs 14:16, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

katuko

Esperanto for "neutered cat". I can't find anything on Google Books, Tekstaro, or Google Groups, but there appears to be some interference from Finnish and romanized Japanese, so I may have missed something. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 18:55, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

bovuko

Esperanto for "steer" (castrated bull). Nothing but mentions on Google Books, Tekstaro, and Google Groups. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 18:58, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

-uko

Esperanto suffix supposedly meaning "neutered". I couldn't find any uses of "ĉevaluko(j)(n)", "bovuko(j)(n)", "katuko(j)(n)", "kokuko(j)(n)", or "porkuko(j)(n)" on Google Books, Google Groups, or Tekstaro, and a search for the string "inuko" on Tekstaro found no results. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 19:05, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, Google Groups and Google Books turn up only mentions for me too, in Usenet posts dating back as far as 1993, and PMEG (1985) (disaparagingly) mentioning it (giving ĉevalinuko, kokinuko, porkuko, bovuko, maskluko, an inuko as examples). One of the Usenet posts is an inquiry what "samideano Eikholz" meant by the affix, so perhaps someone named Eikholz used it somewhere, whoever that is. Seems perhaps amusing, but pretty useless. ~ Röbin Liönheart (talk) 15:24, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

kıyın

Rfv tagged but is not listed. --81.213.46.19 21:44, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

December 2014

gloss

RFV of the noun sense "A deliberately misleading explanation." and the verb sense "To give a deliberately false interpretation of." It's not in the OED, but it is in M-W. Anyway, it would be nice to have quotations. --Wiki Tiki 89 15:37, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The OED has "to veil in specious language". This is the same sense, isn't it? This sense seems to be derived via both etymological routes. Dbfirs 16:41, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's a verb, so it's not exactly the same sense, no. Renard Migrant (talk) 20:29, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ZF

The "Zero Force" sense specifically (set theory sense should be easy). — Keφr 18:07, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cited. Equinox ◑ 18:11, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The citations look rather adjectival; maybe the definition should be changed to "zero-force" (and put under an "Adjective" header)? — Keφr 19:33, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

googolfold

One strong citation for this on Google Books:

The situation is about to get a googolfold worse.

The only other one I can find there is absolute word salad, which I don't think can be used to cite anything:

Mickey King Kong was a vampire, who was minutely one of the more than supermillionfold, millionesque, submillion, googolesque, googolfold, googolplexesque, and googolplexfold quasi-reincarnations of the great cone and Janie Seymour, being combinations of supervampirism, superlyncanthropy, super-O, superstigmata, piezoelectricity, superelectricity, tertiary abiogenesis, superabiogenesis, tertiary carmot, and supercarmot.

No sign of any adjectival use (e.g., no "googolfold increases"). Can anyone help? Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:02, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Usenet yields a couple of results: [47], [48]. There’s also one for googlefold: [49]. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 15:33, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) I've added three citations for the adverb sense, including the first Google Books quote that you gave above. I note, though, that the Google Books quote uses a hyphen ("googol-fold"), but the hyphen occurs at a line break, so it's unclear whether the intended spelling is "googolfold" or "googol-fold". —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 15:34, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

allotroph

Pursuant to the post in the TR, I couldn't find anything in BGC that was actually the exact word "allotroph" once I clicked on it that wasn't in fact a mention or the second sense, although I'm RFVing the whole thing since I'm not sure the second sense should be included either, as it is not exactly a misspelling but certainly not accurate, either. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 23:00, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WP treats allotroph as a redirect to w:Heterotroph.

Our definition seems silly: where else would energy come from, the nuclear reactor one was born with?

I see apparent uses of allotroph more often in German scholarly works, with a meaning something like heterotroph, I think. I must leave that to someone with better German and biology/biochemistry than mine.

I saw English use at Google Scholar of allotroph where allotrope seems to me to be what was meant. DCDuring TALK 01:06, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The definition might be simultaneously silly and true. Renard Migrant (talk) 22:33, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Would you like to wager that the definition in German would not translate to ours? (Not to say that one would not be able to see the source of the error.) DCDuring TALK 00:37, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

enoyigar

Ido, by Embryomystic. --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:01, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Three quotations added. embryomystic (talk) 20:33, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

These are not from permanently recorded media. Furthermore, the second and the third are dependent (WT:CFI#Independent), since they are by the same author. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:41, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

bijwerkinkje

— Ungoliant ^(falai) 15:35, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a bit rusty on Dutch, but I think it's attestable. Unfortunately Dutch Wiktionary doesn't list the diminutive. Diminutives do not always follow the ending of the parent noun. This is something DrJos can answer, I imagine. Donnanz (talk) 19:53, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging User:DrJos: is this (rather than, say, bijwerkingje) the correct diminutive of bijwerking? I do see one citation on Google Books:

2010, Mike Boddé, Pil: hoe een cabaretier zijn depressie overwon:
Eerst geloofde ik het niet; het zal wel een bijwerkinkje zijn van de pillen of zo, dacht ik.

- -sche (discuss) 22:09, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The rule is that if there is a stressed syllable before the syllable with the "-ing" suffix, the last -g- turns into "-kje" to make it a diminutive. If the stress is earlier in the word -g- becomes -etje. So "bijwerking" becomes "bijwerkinkje" --DrJos (talk) 23:03, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The question is now whether one citation is sufficient to attest this (which those who view diminutives as inflected forms have argued), or whether the diminutive needs 3 citations. - -sche (discuss) 01:35, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

olinguito#Italian

Last time the arguments about whether or not to keep olinguito and the like came up, we agreed to keep it provisionally as a "hot word" to see whether usage satisfying CFI would appear once the term had existed for more than a year. This worked out for the English term, but I'm not sure there are any durably archived citations of this in Italian (I tried "gli olinguiti" and "l'olinguito" and did not find a single Italian use in a book), and more than a year has passed since Italians first used the word. This time, if we come up short we must delete the Italian entry. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:42, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Books are not the only source of citations. One definite print use from May 2014 here and one I'm uncertain about here (the website is "Partnered with la Repubblica", but I dont know whether that means la Repubblica reprints anything from it) which would push it over the one year mark. Smurrayinchester (talk) 09:29, 26 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think it’s spelled wrong for Italian. The Italian should be olinghito, as mentioned here. —Stephen ^(Talk) 06:22, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ènals

ènal lists ènaux as a plural. Neither seem to be attested. I can only find ènal in combination e.g. "pent-4-ènal" (Chimie Organique, 2002) and never on its own. Énal is what I'd expect it to be called if it ever was used on its own, but perhaps it isn't. Renard Migrant (talk) 20:28, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ma

Tagged but not listed. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 20:30, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

affor

affor

Rather than.
I would die affor giving up my virtue.

I can find no citation for this usage as a conjunction meaning "rather than". It's not in the OED, and the example sentence (also unsourced) is perfectly compatible with meaning given in the OED: a variant (Middle English) spelling of "afore" (= before). Gordonofcartoon (talk) 23:50, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relatedly, some of the quotations for the verb sense of affor look to me like they are actually uses of the preposition meaning "before" (though I don't know enough Middle English to be sure about all of them). If someone familiar with Middle English and Early Modern English could sort those out, that would be wonderful. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 00:59, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, and not just some - nearly all of the verb citations match afore (before) rather than "afford". A look at Google Books also finds no hits for "afforring" except an obvious OCR error for "affording"; nor for "afforred" (similar errors for "afforded"); nor for "affors", which appears as various misreadings such as "affors'd" (i.e. "aforesaid"), OCR error for "actors", and similar. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 16:07, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, there is no such verb. Why has it been sitting there in our entry for seven years? We need to delete this part of speech, but we can keep the cites as prepositions. The OED has afore as a conjunction meaning "before", but marks it as "Now archaic and regional". In my native dialect, "afore" is used to mean rather than where others might use "before" with the same meaning (see our entry: "rather or sooner than") at our entry for before (conjunction). I've never seen it spelt affor, but the OED has one cite with this spelling (as a conjunction in 1470). Dbfirs 20:06, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

bağdarlama

There is no that word at the Turkish! --123snake45 (talk) 19:58, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever the result of this, it would be nice for this, in Kazakh and Turkish (if that survives) to get an actual definition. program is decently polysemous, and thus a poor definition.--Prosfilaes (talk) 01:44, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The people doesn't use/speak it word at Turkish. So it is invalid. --123snake45 (talk) 21:56, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kazakh is correct, if it's written in Latin. The Cyrillic spelling is бағдарлама (kk) (bağdarlama). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 22:55, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sending the Kazakh Roman spelling as well, бағдарлама is attestable, "bağdarlama" is not. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:01, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

as

Rfv-sense (Portuguese): (Non-standard, Fast Speech) but

— Ungoliant ^(falai) 14:23, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rfv-sense

https://twitter.com/grupovolareijui/status/263297880809435138 (a reply)

https://twitter.com/SCHvaleria/status/210911651069829120

hard to find it written. even harder recorded without a search tool. maybe that's indeed a wrong sense because I see myself using it instead of "mas" but not with a "but" sense.

— This unsigned comment was added by 191.5.159.213 (talk) at 18:18, 29 December 2014 (UTC).[reply]

selfie stick

Tagged by User:LoveLoveHat, not listed. Equinox ◑ 21:41, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This word definitely seems to exist—see, for instance, the many selfie sticks for sale on Amazon. But I can only find two durably archived citations, which I've added to the entry. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 21:55, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've found another quotation in a social science journal—however, all three quotations are from late 2014, so they don't meet the requirement of spanning more than a year. Should we call it a hot word? —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 16:36, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Seems appropriately labelled as hot word. DCDuring TALK 17:42, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In my imagined to-be-eventually-written-down criteria for hot words, I actually explicitly exclude "inventions" — since I think these are more likely to be temporary fads than other neologisms. — Keφr 17:54, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There's a case for that, but this probably will either be deleted or no longer be hot by the time that gets voted on.

I found a cluster of cites from the website of various print newspapers and CNET that dates from late August 2014 and another from another one dated in 2013 from an Australian website that looks like it is web-only, but might not be. Do others share my estimation that none of these meet our "durably archived" criterion? If so, the "hot word" calendar begins with the 18 December 2014 Usenet citation. DCDuring TALK 19:09, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just tag it with hot word. Renard Migrant (talk) 22:30, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, but we need to check on it 15 months or so after the first cite (a book published December 2014) to confirm that it has become a lasting part of the language, unless you'd like us to flout that part of CFI. DCDuring TALK 23:17, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Like you said that's 12 months from now. Renard Migrant (talk) 23:33, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Less if there the possible cites above are valid. DCDuring TALK 23:58, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Found newspaper cites going back to March 2014. Seems that selfie sticks became popular in Asia around that time. Whereas they didn't become popular globally until late 2014. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 19:31, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

January 2015

bashustuné

Ladino. Attested per WT:ATTEST? --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:14, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

One mention in snippet view here. It seems to be a word list with definitions and some etymological information. As far as I can tell, the Turkish seems to be a compound of baş (“head”) + üstüne (“above or on top of”), so the Spanish gloss of encima de la cabeza fits the literal meaning of the Turkish (I suspect the Turkish is equivalent as an expression to something like "yes sir!" or "you're the boss!", but I don't speak Turkish). This shows the word in use, but the semantics require some stretching to make it work- close enough to be plausible, though. Since Ladino is no doubt an LDL, the one mention should be sufficient if we accept it. As I said earlier, Ladino is tricky to attest, because the orthography is far from standardized, and because there's geographical variation, too. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:30, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Should it be a language with limited documentation? Renard Migrant (talk) 18:59, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is, since it's not on this list. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 00:45, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

bashustoné

Ladino. Attested per WT:ATTEST? --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:15, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

One use here. I'll let others judge whether it fits the definition (this is the alt-form, so see bashustuné). Chuck Entz (talk) 23:38, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

抺

Rfv-sense for the article's following definitions: apply, smear, plaster and to put on. I couldn't find any sources for these definitions but I thought maybe one of our native Chinese editors might have more insight into the situation than I do. Bumm13 (talk) 05:11, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Probably why you can't find sources is because in general I would say the word means sweep or brush (its pretty close to uses 3,4 and 5 of brush when used as a verb) and that it describes the movement of the hand, it needs a modifier to be used in the senses above e.g.上 to create 抺上 and only really when talking about powdery, liquid and semi-liquid things, for example paint, food, make up etc. So for example

"apply an egg wash" - 抺上蛋漿
"smear on some sunscreen"-抹上防曬油
"plaster something" (as in a wall) -抹上灰泥

By coincidence, I think, to paint something black 抺黑 has the sense of smear as in smear campaign.

Its not in our entry but by pairing with 走 or 去, ie 抺走 or 抺去, we have wipe away,sweep away, e.g. wipe away tears-抺走眼淚.--KTo288 (talk) 20:20, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

antlophobia

Fear of floods. Only in word lists. The one citation given has poor grammar and appears to be a vanity-published poem by a subliterate writer. Equinox ◑ 20:58, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Th eother" and "learing" were typos introduced by an editor. They weren't found in the original text. It's "learning to read was thy great antlophobia." It's think it's a metaphor for finding learning to read as a young child to be overwhelming — fearing that you're going to be inundated by words. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 01:05, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cited if you count the poem. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 01:34, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

selaphobia

Fear of flashes of light. Only in word lists. Equinox ◑ 21:10, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've found two meanings, which I suspect may be the case for a few -phobias: there's the "fear of..." sense, which is what you'll find in the word lists, and there's also a biological "intolerance of..." sense. So selaphobia might be the fear of flashes, or, in ophthalmology, an intolerance to them. chlorophobia might be a fear of Chlorine (or of Chloroform, or simply of the colour green), or a botanic intolerance to Chlorine compounds.

More to the point, there is an issue which came up on my talk page in conversation with Equinox on this matter, and that's what would count for an attestation. I submit that these phobias come as a packet of concepts: the condition, the condition as an adjective, and the thing suffering the condition (-phobia, -phobic, -phobe). (And adverb -phobically?) Many of these terms are very specialised, and may turn up in scientific papers relatively rarely, such that we might have an insufficient number of attestations for any given form, and thus be forced to delete all three forms and with them the entire concept.

It's not quite the same as using examples of the genitive or plural to attest the lemma, but I don't think it's that far off. So I submit that for this sort of "package" of forms, it should be possible to use, eg., "selaphobic" and "selaphobe" to attest "selaphobia", and vice-versa. That is, any of the forms of the package work as attestation of the package. This could be the basis of a "See also" template for such things listing the various forms (so: autism/autistic/autist/autistically, or schizophrenia/schizophrenic/schizophrenic/schizophrenically, although that would be for cross-reference more than the need to aggregate attestations to make critical mass.)

Thoughts?

--Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 05:29, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This does seem close to what we do with verbs (where I've noted a strong consensus to create the -s, -ing, -ed forms even if not all of them are attestable). I don't like the idea, though, since I prefer to treat each word/spelling as a separate item. Equinox ◑ 17:32, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really consider inflections (plural forms and verb tenses) to be individual words, and thus I don't think they need to be independently cited, unless they're irregular in some way. But nouns, verbs, adjectives, or any other POS should be considered separate words, and thus I think they need to be independently cited. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 23:55, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My position is that "selaphobic" does not attest "selaphobia"; even if "selaphobic" is attested, "selaphobia" can fail RFV and be deleted. --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:28, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- My fear is that neither form will make critical mass on its own (I've moved the cites you deleted to selaphobic, by the way), both will independently fail CFI, and thus the term in its entirety will be deleted. Even if they are aggregated it will be close, unless someone else has better luck finding another cite for each sense. But still, I see a situation where a word can clearly exist, if rarely, but be deleted through the technicality that one citation used person-first language or some such perfectly regular and predictable variation. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 12:31, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Not sure what you mean by "person-first language"; one of the forms is a noun, the other is an adjective. They are different words, not just different inflected forms. Three quotations is already a very low threshold; I find it unwise to lower it by pooling morphologically related forms (like "carry", "carrier", and "carriage" or those mentioned by you above: autism/autistic/autist/autistically, schizophrenia/schizophrenic/schizophrenic/schizophrenically). In similar way, each -ness form should be attested on its own, rather than entered when the adjective from which the -ness form is formed is attested. Ditto for agent nouns: they should be attested on their own rather than created automatically when the verb is attested. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:41, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    Person-first language is a fashion in disability circles to avoid using the word meaning "person-with-condition" ("autist", "paraplegic"), but instead explicitly saying "person with autism", "person with paraplegia", etc. (The idea is to explicitly state the person as most semantically important, not defining them by the condition.) Many autists, for example, find this ridiculous and faintly patronising, and see person-first language, for our condition at least, akin to saying "person with maleness". In this case you might find that a rare but real condition, with a real, if rare, word would fail attestation because the votes were split between the condition and the person-with-condition, even though they're all referring to the same thing. Which is why I split off the cites for selaphobic, rather than let them vanish completely. Surely someone has better access to ophthalmology papers? Or Epilepsy studies? --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 21:52, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

bathmophobia

Fear of stairs/slopes. Only in word lists. The WP article only cites a word list. Equinox ◑ 21:14, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cited. Most phobias are just barely citable. It can seem like they're not because finding cites requires combing through pages and pages of wordlists in the Google Books results. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 22:10, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is my position that the likes of "bathmophobia (fear of stairs)" and "bathmophobia, which is a fear of stairs or steep slopes" should not count for attestation. Or they should count to show the meaning, but should not count to the list of quotations in which the word is pressed to do a semantic job on its own. However, there is no consensus for this position, AFAIK; WT:CFI#Conveying meaning supports 'They raised the jib (a small sail forward of the mainsail) in order to get the most out of the light wind' as fine, which I don't. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:13, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV passed: the citations meet the requirements in WT:CFI#Conveying meaning. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 23:25, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

barophobia

Google Books doesn't seem to have enough citations for any single sense. There is the biological "barophobic" (not adapted to high pressures). Equinox ◑ 21:19, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Found a third cite for the fear sense. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 23:28, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What about fear of bars? Renard Migrant (talk) 23:42, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Did you hear the one about a man who didn't walk into a bar? -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 01:39, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

agyrophobia

Another word-list phobia. Equinox ◑ 22:08, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do you think it might be worthwhile to enact something to the effect that /phobia$/ entries may be deleted on sight unless properly cited? And an edit filter to explain it. — Keφr 20:08, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like a good idea to me. Also /philia$/ though that is a lesser problem AFAICT. DCDuring TALK 20:25, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Special:AbuseFilter/41. Please check it for errors and run it through any bureaucracy you feel is appropriate: BP, vote, whatever. — Keφr 20:43, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

wood

Rfv-sense: Made of or with wood

Just attributive use of the noun? — Ungoliant ^(falai) 20:25, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure how to tell the difference between an uncountable noun and an incomparable adjective. None of the tests at Wiktionary:English adjectives seem to be capable of distinguishing between these two. So what kind of citation would (hypothetically) be able to demonstrate that "wood" is indeed an incomparable adjective as well as a noun? —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 20:46, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Predicative use, i.e. you can say “this toy is wooden”, but can you say “this toy is wood”? — Ungoliant ^(falai) 20:49, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'd still say that's use of the uncountable noun. Talk:woodland might provide a way forward; very wood and quite wood can't be interpreted as nominal uses, unless I'm missing something. Renard Migrant (talk) 20:56, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's true, but I wouldn't expect to find uses of an incomparable adjective with "quite" and "very". —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 21:08, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Yes, you can. [50] [51] [52] [53] But it's not completely obvious to me whether these are predicative uses of an adjective or an uncountable noun. But if you think they're good enough, I'll add them to the entry. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 20:59, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious IMO. It feels like "this music is (genre)": more of a noun usage. Equinox ◑ 21:01, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Mr. Granger: I'd apply Occam's razor. If we have a noun entry for a word then there should be some unambiguous evidence for its adjectivity to support an Adjective PoS section. I can find three cites (1, 3 & 4) ["be|am|is|are|be|being|was|were more wood than" -"there is|was more wood than" here] at Google Books for the following collocation: "[be] more wood (than)". If upheld, that would let us keep the Adjective section. DCDuring TALK 22:19, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Saying "it's more wood than metal" doesn't make it an adjective, though. —CodeCa t 22:21, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I tend to see "this table is wood" as an adjectival usage. Dictionaries having this adjectival sense at "wood" include AHD[54] and Merriam-Webster (entry 3)[55]. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:32, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, now as before, I consider this use of RFV less than fortunate, since for English there are no conclusive purely evidence-based criteria for adjectivity. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:34, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The OED has only the obsolete adjective (our etymology 2) meaning mad. Are we being wooden about this? We do have steel as an adjective, and the OED doesn't, but why don't we have soap and cardboard as adjectives? (Later note: we do now for cardboard, with good cites. Thanks, Mr. Granger.) Dbfirs 17:03, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Dan Polansky: In most cases the evidence is extremely clear. Evidence is to be preferred to gum-flapping wherever possible. We can reduce the gum-flapping to evaluation and weighing of evidence, in this case, that of the judgment of lexicographers and the corpus data. It is very hard for me to take as meaningful an individual vote which often represents nothing more than an idiolect or a completely uninformed opinion. And articulate arguments based on agreed-to principles have become scarcer over time. DCDuring TALK 17:24, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'd rather go by Merriam-Webster than OED. Merriam-Webster does have an adjective sense for "steel"[56]. We could have an adjective sense in cardboard, just like Merriam-Webster[57]; however, they may have the adjective sense to accompany the figurative adjective sense that they have. Again, since adjectivity is hard to detect based only on evidence, I discourage and oppose this use of RFV. Yes, there are cases where the evidence clearly supports adjectivity, but absence of such evidence requires judgment and discussion to determine the adjectivity, as per the existence of incomparable adjectives. Under the assumption that we take this RFV seriously, occurrences of "this table is wood" should count toward attestation as adjective, IMHO. This RFV should be closed as out-of-scope (my preferable closure), or as passed. We have no evidence to tell us whether "this table is wood" is an adjectival use, so we do have to use judgment or linguistic sense; hence the propriety of RFD for these kind of cases. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:10, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV can be useful and appropriate in such cases, since the POS is part of the sense, and it seems perfectly acceptable to challenge whether there's usage for the sense as an adjective. The problem comes when the evidence is inconclusive: the presumption with rfd is for keeping unless the case is made for deletion, while with rfv it's for deletion unless the case (in the form of citations) is made for keeping. I have no problem with using rfv- unless someone tries to close it as failed when citations have been provided, but they're ambiguous.Chuck Entz (talk) 00:06, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You ignored the incomparable adjectives objection, it seems. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:11, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

creme

rfv-sense: Vulgar slang for semen. Equinox ◑ 00:53, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The same definition appears under cream. Now which is the most vulgar spelling? Donnanz (talk) 00:14, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thinking about it, neither word is vulgar. Should it be labelled as a figurative or literary sense? Donnanz (talk) 13:17, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Added "rfv-sense" at the top. (I search the RFV for "rfv-sense" to see which items I can close as failed, which is one source of the usefulness.) --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:23, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

aboiement

RFV of the English section. - -sche (discuss) 04:16, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is the only use I could find: [58]. It’s present in some medical dictionaries, so it can be moved to Appendix:English dictionary-only terms if it fails. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 17:09, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

selaphobic

Really attested? google books:"selaphobic", google groups:"selaphobic", “selaphobic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.. I'd even consider speedy RFV fail. Each sense needs three attesting quotations. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:26, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

outrovert

Rfv-sense for both senses: (1) an introvert who likes outdoorsy activities, and (2) a synonym for extrovert. The entry was created with sense (1) by an anon who later registered as User:‎Logophilic K; that sense was replaced by sense (2) by User:SemperBlotto. Logophilic K objected to that in the Tea room, so I've restored both senses and am RFVing both of them here, so we can find out how this word is actually used in durably archived sources. Incidentally, all I can find on b.g.c is this, which is short on context but appears to be sense (2). But I can't find 2 more attestations of it in that sense. As far as I can tell, all other b.g.c hits of "outrovert", "outroverts", and "outroverted" are scannos for the corresponding forms of controvert. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:37, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've added two citations for the "extrovert" sense. Both appear to be written by non-native English speakers. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 23:05, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's a joke, but it might coincidentally turn out to be attested. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:29, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ℇ

Allegedly the Euler–Mascheroni constant, for which the usual symbol is γ. Sense originally added by Visviva; perhaps he knows more. — Keφr 22:22, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Unicode name of this symbol is "EULER CONSTANT", which gives the entry some plausibility. But no citations have been provided, so RFV failed. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 12:36, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

God's House

'God's house' is obviously very prevalent in a Christian sense, and its Arabic form meaning Kaaba as well, but I am unsure about this capitalised form having an idiomatic meaning of 'the Kaaba' in English. I looked and couldn't see it using Google Books. Kaixinguo (talk) 16:59, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps there should be an entry for God's house. Kaixinguo (talk) 17:08, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

moreno

Ido for moraine. I can't find anything, but there's a lot of interference from other languages. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 21:14, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

here and there

Rfv-sense: "From time to time"

MWOnline has it. I've never heard it. Is it archaic, obsolete? Does the OED have it? DCDuring TALK 05:12, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, the OED has only the sense of scattered through space, not time. The equivalent expressions for time are now and then and now and again. I suppose the expression is sometimes used of time, by analogy, but I don't really think it means scattered through time. How do we distinguish between a meaning and a metaphor? Dbfirs 14:20, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Dbfirs: Thanks. I didn't think so, but I suspect you are right about metaphorical use. We don't have too much trouble with many mature metaphor-derived senses of nouns like head, but "live"-but-dying metaphors (or protologistic metaphor-based senses) are harder. It would be nice to have some actual instances of the purported temporal use that we could assess. OED was my best hope, but I'll try some other dictionaries that sometimes have citations. DCDuring TALK 14:34, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

e.g. 2009, John Bogard, The Message from the Cosmos (page 63): "Before we study his ideas, it is useful to note here again that extraterrestrial powers intervened here and there in his life, as early as his birth, then his baptism […] ". Equinox ◑ 15:13, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, after trawling through more than 200 Google Books, I found another example from 2011, R. E. Donald, Slow Curve on the Coquihalla (chapter 23): "Yep. Since nineteen sixty, or thereabouts. Missed a few years, here and there."

I suppose "at this and that point in space" can be used by analogy to mean "at this and that point in time", just as "now and again" is sometimes used for points in space. We are travellers through the four-dimensional manifold.

I wonder if "intermittently, occasionally" would be a better definition than "from time to time"? Dbfirs 16:55, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Weird. I'd consider it pretty common, as common as the spatial sense. Renard Migrant (talk) 17:37, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you move at a different speed and so live on a different world line? :) Dbfirs 20:27, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's often ambiguous. I find the 2009 cite ambiguous, though not the 2011 cite. In any event, the citations will be proof against a COPYVIO of MW Online, especially if we use them to support wording such as Dbfirs'. DCDuring TALK 19:03, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It certainly can mean now and again in my idiolect. I would argue that in most cases, the meaning of spatially scattered and temporally scattered are so inextricably linked for that it must necessarily mean both. For instance in the sentence "The man showed up here and there," the appearances of the man must necessarily be spatially and temporally separated, which might have given rise to the figurative meaning of now and then. I also agree that it is very hard to construct sentences that are explicitly of one meaning or the other. —JohnC5 ^{(Talk | contribs)} 20:57, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

But you can't say "The man showed up here and there at his kitchen window overlooking the road."

You would have to say "now and again" where the spatial context is restricted. Dbfirs 10:35, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't say "The man showed up now and again at his kitchen window overlooking the road" but instead "Now and again, the man showed up now and again at his kitchen window overlooking the road" or "The man showed up at his kitchen window overlooking the road now and again." For some reason, that placement after the verb does not work for me. But in the other two locations, I could definitely say "Here and there, the man showed up at his kitchen window overlooking the road" and "The man showed up at his kitchen window overlooking the road here and there." This, however, may just be the topicalization or backing obscuring the apparent spatial contradiction. —JohnC5 ^{(Talk | contribs)} 10:50, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder how widely this is shared. Thank goodness we don't have to depend on individual reporting of their idiolect. DCDuring TALK 12:49, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ive found one more cite, not sure about the year because the book seems to have been privately published by the author: Andre Maxwell Jacob, And Then There Was Life! (page 218): "She told Justina and Miles everything, pausing here and there trying to remember every little detail of her day."

If my sample of books is representative of the corpus, then usage for a timelike interval is less than 1% of usage for a spacelike interval. Dbfirs 21:09, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not at all surprised by the rarity of unambiguously temporal cites for this particular term, where both main terms are principally spatial and alternatives like now and then are available. In my idiolect, I try to use the words that are more specific to the temporal realm. At least I think I do. It is fascinating how many basic time words, like prepositions (after, before) have a spatial etymology. DCDuring TALK 21:23, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tamagotchi

While it's been misappropriated from time to time in eBay titles, it's still lacking attestations —umbreon1 2 6 04:19, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

💩

[Placeholder for "bullshit" pun]

(Amusingly, when searching for this symbol with QQ, I get, among other things, a few calculus textbooks. Google Books API apparently considers this symbol equivalent to the string "DY". No such thing happens with regular b.g.c search, however.) — Keφr 11:57, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This strikes me as something more likely to be found on Usenet (Google Groups). How hard is it to enable QQ for such? QQ looks like a cool tool, though the documentation is not adequate for someone like me. It doesn't really SELL the tool. DCDuring TALK 16:15, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Next to impossible, unfortunately. Google Groups Search does not offer a public JSON API. As for documentation, feel free to write something better… — Keφr 17:11, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- And I would agree if by "more likely" you meant "≥" instead of ">". Usenet has always struck me as somewhat traditionalist, so to speak — in this case, sticking to bare ASCII (or at the very least characters you can type on a keyboard without looking them up in a character table) unless there is a necessity to do otherwise. — Keφr 17:20, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - If I understood QQ I could document it. Unfortunately the lack of documentation prevents me.
  - I thought that the image would be the kind of thing that someone would like to be able to produce as a comment on someone else's post. DCDuring TALK 11:52, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - There is little to be understood. Just enable it and try it out. — Keφr 17:18, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      - Not related to the discussion but the symbol has a smile (eyes and mouth) when viewed on an iPad but there's no smile on PC. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 21:37, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        Probably a matter of which font is used by each. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:10, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV failed. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 12:45, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

double radio-source associated with a galactic nucleus

Any attestations meeting WT:ATTEST, including "use in permanently recorded media"? --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:22, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's used in published articles from paper science journals, so yes. -- 65.94.40.137 14:33, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- The end result of this effect is the perception of a symmetrically receding pair of sound sources, which, in the luminal world, is a good description of symmetric radio sources (Double Radio source Associated with Galactic Nucleus)
  DOI 10.1142/S0218271807010559 Are Radio Sources and Gamma Ray Bursts Luminal Booms? Manoj Thulasidas (2007) International Journal of Modern Physics D
- Since nobody has yet proposed a name for this phenomenon, I shall do so now: we should call them DRAGNs, which is an acronym for 'Double Radio source Associated with Galactic Nucleus'.
  DOI 10.1007/3-540-57164-7_74 ; BIBCODE 1993LNP...421....1L ; DRAGNs J.P.Leahy (1993) Jets in Extragalactic Radio Sources, Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, FRG, September 22-28, 1991.
  
  This is the coining event (in 1991), that coins the term ; the Proceedings are a published (on paper) compendium of the conference.
- double radio source associated with a galactic nucleus
  pagee 282 (2007) C. R. Kitchin Galaxies in Turmoil Springer ISBN 9781846286711
- 1 - Double Radio source Associated with Galactic Nucleus; see Leahy (1993)
  DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07685.x ; BIBCODE 2004MNRAS.350..865G ; A multiband study of Hercules A - I. ROSAT observations of the intracluster medium Gizani, Nectaria A. B.; Leahy, J. P. (2004) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 350, Issue 3, pp. 865-878

It would be helpful if Wiktionary had the external reference templates that Wikipedia has for linking to DOIs, PMIDs, PMCIDs, BIBCODEs, since they link to information to find the published science papers and their journals. -- 65.94.40.137 15:00, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

捵

Rfv-sense for Vietnamese reading "điến". This reading isn't found in either the Unihan database or at the Nom Foundation website. Bumm13 (talk) 13:51, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Bumm13 http://hvdic.thivien.net/word/%E6%8D%B5 --kc_kennylau (talk) 13:54, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Kc kennylau Nice find! I'll have to check against that source for future referencing purposes. Bumm13 (talk) 14:00, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

κάκα

The stress is completely wrong. Kaká, not káka - as a person who lived in Greece for years here and never heard anyone say this.

doosh

Searched on Google Books for "heard a doosh" (as in the given usage example) and "went doosh" but found nothing. Equinox ◑ 00:47, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The current sense is only citable as an interjection. As a noun, it’s an eye dialect/nonstandard form of douche. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 01:07, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thoroughbred

I have looked at the Wikipedia article, but I'm a bit dubious. is Thoroughbred really a breed? I would only use the uncapitalised form. Donnanz (talk) 11:18, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Sport of Kings takes itself rather seriously, and the capitalised version is the normal one, as a quick visit to the UK Jockey Club website and the US Jockey Club website will attest.--KTo288 (talk) 22:23, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

February 2015

zamrzlý puberťák

Czech: adultescent.

I cannot attest this; google books:"zamrzlý puberťák". I can attest google books:"zastydlý puberťák", but I doubt it means "adultescent". --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:52, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. Never came across "zastydlý puberťák", but per Google it's more common than "zamrzlý". As for "adultescent", I went by the Oxford Dictionaries definition "A middle-aged person whose clothes, interests, and activities are typically associated with youth culture." and example sentence "A new name has even been coined for people who don't act their age: adultescents.", but on second thoughts it's true that the Czech term is always pejorative and can be used for anybody no longer in their teens, so probably the translation I used is inappropriate without a usage note or something. --Droigheann (talk) 01:54, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think that, most importantly, this collocation isn't idiomatic. Or is it? --AuvajsAuvajs (talk) 00:00, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

čím

Rfv-sense: conjuction. Can't think of any sentence where it would be used as one. --Droigheann (talk) 01:45, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Since it is instrumental case of co, it may have this sense - "whereby", "what with", dependent on the context. I would convert to instrumental singular of co. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:55, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

An example sentence would be something along the lines "Neuvěříte, čím si udělal radost!" or "S čím jsi to udělal?" (What did you do that with?). but I can't express myself well in Czech, sorry. Calling @Dan Polansky, a native Czech speaker. BTW, @Droigheann, you need a user page with a Babel table. :) --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:59, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is it a bad form not to have one? Ну что, готово ;-). --Droigheann (talk) 01:56, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On a second thought, the Pronoun section already covers this. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:12, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

maximum security

Perhaps he means maximum security prison? SemperBlotto (talk) 07:33, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And ditto for minimum security

A single cite that I'm not very sure about:

2003, Ann Rule, Last Dance, Last Chance, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9780743424066), page 462

Mr. Savage tells us he'll appeal, and appeal, and appeal. But you can be sure of one thing. A man in the maximum security on death row will never 'walk away' to prowl the countryside again.” The jury retired on Saturday evening to deliberate.

If not cited, I think this should become "Alternative form of maximum-security/minimum-security." Smurrayinchester (talk) 10:15, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(By the way, there are few hits for "sent to maximum security", but these seem to refer to maximum security areas within a prison with several areas.) Smurrayinchester (talk) 10:20, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think if the definition was right the hits would look more like "sent to a maximum security", of course not followed by "prison", "facility" etc. Siuenti (talk) 22:34, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

One of the many widespread defects of our English definitions are, 1., incorrect, incomplete, or missing indication of countability and uncountability on the inflection line, 2., missing or incorrect marking of countability and uncountability at the sense level for polysemic terms, and, 3., wording of definitions inconsistent with the indicated countability or uncountability. The definition in question at least has the third defect: the indefinite article is not consistent with uncountable on the inflection line. DCDuring TALK 23:20, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Smurrayinchester: I found ten hits for "in|into|to maximum security [punctuation mark]" at COCA:

1 2011 SPOK NBC_Dateline After six years in maximum security , Glen Ake was nearly unrecognizable.

2 2002 NEWS USAToday brick prison walls passing by him are like scenes from his daydreams back in maximum security .

3 2002 NEWS Denver said he is ready to move from maximum to medium security. # While in maximum security , Glennie has been assaulted four times.

4 2002 NEWS Denver Glennie remains in maximum security ,

5 2000 FIC ScienceNews and I were unceremoniously shoved into soda cups and trundled back across the street into maximum security .

6 1996 NEWS WashPost receiving end, or made to spend a night at Lorton... in Maximum Security ... chained to a cell door... stark naked,

7 1994 SPOK CBS_Sixty So Joe Yandle was locked away in maximum security .

8 1991 NEWS AssocPress 66064 and his crew are ready with " the real deal " on life in maximum security .

9 1990 FIC Bk:Harvest Three years behind bars in maximum security !

10 1990 MAG WashMonth Younis is now serving 30 years in maximum security .

(I'm showing off COCA search capability.)

This indicates it is used without an article, possibly uncountable. Quote 3 suggests that it is not a set phrase. Quote 6 shows it being used as a proper noun in reference to a particular department or unit. Clearly maximum security is not a type of security in the usage here. In contrast under maximum security would indicate a type of security. I don't think it can be used after the same set of prepositions that security, in any sense, can. And etymologically it is clearly an ellipsis of phrases headed by prison, unit, detention, etc. Though I find it hard to believe that "it's likely that someone would run across it and want to know what it means", the meaning being always transparent in context, I know of no instance where an item failed to be included for failing to meet that criterion. DCDuring TALK 00:02, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have added and cited a noun section. I look forward to someone trying to cite this as a true adjective. DCDuring TALK 17:05, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I notice Random House has "maximum security" defined as an adjective, perhaps we can go with that as opposed to a noun! WritersCramp (talk) 00:04, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

duckbill

Rfv-sense "The paddlefish." I cannot find uses, but filtering out the other senses may be the only obstacle. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:14, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are plenty of mentions: it seems to be US dialect, and is usually given as "duckbill cat" or "duckbill catfish". Equinox ◑ 00:08, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I will add an attested entry at duckbill cat. DCDuring TALK 02:40, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cited, IMHO. DCDuring TALK 10:54, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

dancing belt

Synonym for dance belt. Having trouble finding this. Equinox ◑ 13:37, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Me, too. Everything at google books:"a dancing belt" seems SOP, and/or refers to a thing worn by a woman. Sunset Marina initially looked like it had a use of this sense, but on closer inspection it too seems to say a woman is going to wear the belt, which makes it question whether it's using the sense in question. - -sche (discuss) 22:16, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Try googling "belly dancing belt", which can also be "belly dance belt". This definition is not shown under dance belt. Donnanz (talk) 11:47, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

-chondrion

Has this ever been productive in English with the supposed definition "grain-like"? I can only find one word where it has anything to do with grain - mitochondrion - and that seems to be simply an invented Greek word ("thread granule") rather than an example of suffixing. Smurrayinchester (talk) 09:28, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

pope

RFV of several senses which seem to have been copied or paraphrased from another dictionary, complete with that dictionary's "citations", which are just mentions in other dictionaries and wordlists and not, in most cases, actual uses.

~~(UK) The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.~~ (P)
~~(UK regional, obsolete) The grain weevil (Sitophilus granarius).~~ (F)
(UK regional) The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
~~(US regional) The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).~~ (P)
~~(UK regional) The bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).~~ (F)
~~(UK regional, obsolete) The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio).~~ (F)

The English Dialect Dictionary, which sometimes has pointers to actual uses of words like this, specifies that the "weevil" sense was unknown to its correspondents, and although it has the "bullfinch", "shrike" and "puffin" senses, it offers no leads to actual uses. I tried various searches, like "catch popes" (compare "catch fish"), "red popes" ("red-back shrikes"), popes + weevils, popes + puffins, etc, and didn't see anything relevant. - -sche (discuss) 21:46, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also a bit sceptical that the "Guy Fawkes day" sense is really, as currently labelled, US. - -sche (discuss) 21:47, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I know I'm RFVing a lot of things, but I've cited even more senses over the past few days than I've RFVed. (Vide gam, gom, gaum/gorm/goam/gawm, gaumy/gormy, gauming/gorming/gawming, gaumless/gormless/gawmless, gaumlessness/gormlessness, etc. and undermeal, flockmeal and mommick.) - -sche (discuss) 22:30, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Right! Let's see what we can do.

ruffe:

1792, William Augustus Osbaldiston, The British Sportsman, Or, Nobleman, Gentleman and Farmer's Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement, page 176:

Byfleet-river, wherein are very large pikes, jack, and tench ; perch, of eighteen inches long ; good carp, large flounders, bream, roach, dace, gudgeons, popes, large chub, and eels.

1862, Francis T. Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History, page 230:

It resembles the perch (unfortunately for itself) in having a very long and prickly fin on its back, advantage of which is taken by the boys about Windsor, who are very fond of 'plugging a pope.' This operation consists in fixing a bung in the sharp spines on the poor pope's back fin, and then throwing him into the water.

1865 January 14, Astley H. Baldwin, "Small Fry" in Once a Week, page 105:

Popes are caught whilst gudgeon-fishing with the red worm, but they are sometimes a great nuisance to the perch-fisher, as they take the minnow.

puffin (no direct citations, but three indirect ones - 1822 shows that it was a common enough word to be crystalized in a toponym, and a check of the OS map shows that the name "Pope's Hole" is official and still current, so it must have had some serious use):

1822, George Woodley, A view of the present state of the Scilly Islands, page 264-5:

"About a hundred yards further North" says Troutbeck, "is a 'subterraneous' cavern called the Pope's Hole, about fifty fathoms under the ground, into which the sea flows, so called from a sort of bird which roosts in it by night, about ninety feet high above the level of the water."!! [...] It derives its name from its being a place of shelter to some puffins, vulgo "popes".

1864, Charles Issac Elton, Norway: The Road and the Fell, page 94:

The Norsemen catch great numbers of these popes, parrots, or lunder, as they are variously named, and train dogs to go into the holes where the puffin has its nest, lying in it with feet in the air.

1874, J. Van Voorst, Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, page 3904:

I was informed by a fisherman that there were now hundreds of gannets in the channel off Plymouth, and that he had also met with some puffins (which he called "popes") [Technically, a mention, but it's quoting speech]

Also lots of mentions such as this and this.

painted bunting (probably mistranslations of the French name, pape):

1771, M. Bossu, Travels Through that Part of North America Formerly Called Louisiana, Volume 1, page 371:

The Pope is of a bright blue round the head ; on the throat it is of a fine red, and on the back of a gold green colour, it sings very finely and is the size of a canary bird.

1806, Berquin-Duvallon, Travels in Louisiana and the Floridas, in the Year, 1802: Giving a Correct Picture of Those Countries, page 122:

The birds [of Louisiana] are the partridge, cardinal and pope, and a species of mocking bird, called the nightingale.

1821 Édouard de Montulé, A Voyage to North America, and the West Indies in 1817, page 54:

[...] some others, such as the crow, the heron, and the wild goose, which are found in Europe, I also observed ; but the most beautiful are the pope bird, whose head seems bound with the most bright azure blue, and the cardinal, being entirely of dazzling scarlet [...]

Dominican cardinal (aka crestless cardinal or red-cowled cardinal):

1864 August 6, The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman, page 100:

From the sketch of the bird which you have sent us, there is no doubt about its being the Pope Grosbeak, which is a species of the Cardinal, but not the crested one.

1883, William Thomas Greene, The amateur's aviary of foreign birds: or, How to keep and breed foreign birds, page 96:

The Pope is a native of Brazil, and the female (it is altogether incongrouous to think of a lady pontiff) exactly resembles her mate

1895, A. A. Thom, "Dominican cardinals" in The Avicultural Magazine, page 128:

SIR,—I should be glad to learn how to treat Pope birds (Crestless Cardinals) when nesting.

1898, The Avicultural Magazine, Volume 4, page 87:

Besides the Bicheno's Finches in this Class, the judge disqualified, in other Classes, a pair of Magpie Mannikins and a pair of Popes. These entries were presumably all disqualified on the ground that they were not true pairs: they are all birds in which the outward differences between the sexes (if there be any outward difference at all) are of an extremely slight and uncertain nature

1956, Foreign birds for cage and aviary, Volume 4, page 20:

The wisest plan is always to keep the Pope Cardinal in an aviary, and to have only one pair to each aviary.

No luck yet on bullfinches, shrikes or weevils. Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:35, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Citing obsolete dialect is rather hard, but one cite for bullfinch can be found in a Dorset parish church's records, which records:

payment of one shilling per dozen for "popes, pops, or poops' heads."

which as Notes & Queries writers point out was almost certainly referring to bullfinches. Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:40, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The "ruffe" and "bunting" citations are great! The "puffin" citations are iffy. The "weevil" and "bullfinch" citations in the entry continue to be mentions, but your Dorset church record looks like a good citation of it — though it's amusing they bothered to write out all three spellings. Great job finding that "cardinal" sense! Ha, it's as if the bird got a promotion: it was a cardinal, now it's a pope. - -sche (discuss) 01:31, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Two more citations for pope as puffin, slightly better than the ones we have above. I personally think the sense is cited now (these two, plus the "Pope's Hole" quote and possibly the quote of fisherman show actual use).

1759, "Linnæus's Systema Naturæ", The Gentleman's Magazine, page 456:

Alca genus; 6 species, including the razorbill, the penguin, the pope, and others.

1773, John Hill, "Alca", A General Natural History, volume 3, page 442:

The Pope: This is a very singular bird; it is about the size of our widgeon, or somewhat larger, but is not quite so large as the duck: the head is large and rounded; the eyes are small, and stand forward on the head, and lower down than in the generality of birds [...]

No luck on the other senses - having checked the OED, they cite the same dictionaries we do. Incidentally, it looks like the "Pope's Day" sense is indeed American - the OED gives two citations, one from the diary of John Adams and one from the Boston Chronicle. Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:24, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Weevil, bullfinch and shrike senses: RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 06:47, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

תוך

Tagged in 2013 and seemingly never listed. - -sche (discuss) 22:57, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Strong's and Brown-Driver-Briggs' have entries for this, and although a lot of the citations are actually of בתוך, I did find bare תוך in a few places with sense 1. Pinging Hebrew-speakers User: msh210 and User:Wikitiki89: are the other senses attested? - -sche (discuss) 16:55, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The "midst" sense is easily attested. Two cites are in the entry and a third will be trivial to find (though I haven't time to find and format one now). That sense cannot fail. (Note though that the headword line is incorrect: the vowelization there currently is of the construct form. I'll fix that imminently.) The others I've never heard of, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. I suspect tha "drum" sense is a confusion with תוף.—msh210℠ (talk) 14:48, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've converted the RFV to an RFV-sense of the last two senses. (The first sense passes with two citations in the entry and more available to anyone who searches the text of e.g. the Hebrew scriptures on Wikisource.) - -sche (discuss) 06:36, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

mirvari

Allegedly a Turkish word for pearl. Tagged but never listed. Has some things which are claimed to be Turkish citations using this word in this sense, but in the past it's been noticed that (most but not all!) of the time, such citations are actually Azeri or Turkmen. - -sche (discuss) 23:14, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

mahā

RFV of adjective sense 3. (Other senses may be RFVed later.) As far as I can tell, it would be a departure from previous practice to have sense-lines (especially ones consisting of more than {{only in}}) for parts of the proper names of works, even if we weren't talking about transliterations. For example, we don't and shouldn't have an English entry for Mein (or mein), or Soyuz or soyuz, based on instances of people mentioning Mein Kampf and Soyuz nerushimy in English; we don't even have an English (or German/Russian) entry for either full title. Hence, the one citation currently under the RFVed sense, if it is using any English term at all, seems to be using Mahā Bhārata, not mahā. But it is italicized as if it were not English at all, but only a transliteration of the Sanskrit title — compare google books:Zhonghua renmin gongheguo xianfa — so seems useful it see if it can be cited in English at all before beginning an RFD. (Otherwise, someone at RFD would say "shouldn't this be at RFV first to see if it's attested?") - -sche (discuss) 21:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Our current entry for Mahā Bhārata defines the term as "Alternative spelling of Mahabharata", and our entry for Mahabharata defines the term as "A Sanskrit epic concerning some text of Bhagavad Gita plus elaborations on theology and morality". None of that provides the reader with any guidance when they come across "mahā" and decide to look it up here. bd2412 T 22:26, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[59] - There are 3 cites for the specified definition, take it to RFD if you dispute inclusion in the first place. It's pointless to discuss the far-fetched and disanalogous parallels with mein and soyuz here. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 22:33, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
On the contrary, Soyuz in particularly is directly analogous. - -sche (discuss) 22:47, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
soyuz is a standalone word so it can't be analogous. soyuz also doesn't appear in hundreds of compounds (or phrases), and it's not a result of people mistakenly spelling it on its own just because it's phonetically a single word, as is the case with maha. Fundamentally there is no difference between it and ordinary English affixes, and the opposition seems to stem from the fact that the former only admits Sanskrit basewords. Since we have entries on English affixes with as little as 2-3 derivations, with maha having hundreds it surely deserves its entry. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 01:04, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Ivan, the two citations you recently added were both illustrations of the term [[maha]], not [[mahā]], and I have therefore removed them. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 00:06, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Ivan, I see that you've just reverted my removal. Rather than edit warring, I rebut below:

I understand that [[maha]] and [[mahā]] are related. However, citations showing use of [[maha]] do not suffice as evidence for [[mahā]] as an English term.
Both of your added citations also don't show use of [[mahā]] as an individual term, but only as part of larger compounds. We already have an entry for maharaja, and I would argue that maha raja (regardless of capitalization) is an alternate form of maharaja and not an example of [[mahā]] as an independent English term.
Your usage note still makes no real sense, and is incorrect in characterizing Sanskrit [[mahā]] as having no independent meaning.

Please remove the incorrect citations and incorrect usage note. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 00:51, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's an alternative form, and citations are valid for the normalized spelling as well. It's the same word.
It's an independent term by the virtue of being demarcated with whitespace. It how the notion of "word" is defined.
mahā is not a lexical word in Sanskrit and has no meaning. The usage note is correct, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it makes no sense. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 00:58, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On the first point, I was under the impression that separate spellings are treated here on the EN WT as separate entries. As such, [[maha]] and [[mahā]] are separate. Could any third party chime in with clarification?
On the second point, I'm not arguing that [[maha]] is not a word. I'm arguing that [[maha]] as illustrated by the compound term [[maha raja]], as an alternate form of [[maharaja]], is not an independent usage of [[maha]] as an English word.
Per your last point, care to explain the महा (mahā) entry, then? inter- is not a lexical word in English either, but it definitely has a meaning. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 01:19, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A 1779 citation for maha encompasses both modern maha and mahā, since at that time there was no way to make a typographic distinction between the the two. Today when you write mahā it's a choice. So a 1779 citation for maha is a proper citation for mahā as well.

What is an "independent word" ? The definition line for the third sense states that it carries no inherent meaning. It can't be classified as an affix either, so it's best left as an adjective.

I suggest that you read the entry on महा (mahā). It says that it doesn't mean anything. That word never occurs in that form on its own so that entry can be safely deleted. Sanskrit has formalized rules of compounding so any word can have a bunch of such "combining forms". inter- doesn't have a meaning either. It modified the meaning of the baseword, but it has no meaning of its own. That's why all of the affixes have non-gloss definitions. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 02:56, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If महा (mahā) doesn't mean anything, then perhaps mahā as used in at least some English texts appears to have been given a meaning by those writers beyond its Sanskrit origins. bd2412 T 04:21, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As it is explained in the usage notes, it's usage as a separate word in English in the third sense is due to the fact that it's phonetically a separate word. In Sanskrit compounds as a rule have a single accent. Modern usage dictates a single-word spelling for all Sanskrit compounds. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 20:14, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I already read the महा (mahā) entry. The महा (mahā) entry does not say that it has no meaning. The lack of a gloss on the definition line is not a positive statement that the term has no definition. Clicking through to महत् (mahat) further explains that महा (mahā) is the combining form of महत् (mahat), i.e. it has the same definition(s) as महत् (mahat), albeit a different lexical role.

If inter- has no meaning, why does it have a definition line?

Ivan, I honestly can't tell if you're trolling me, or if you're bending the logic of your argument, or if you and I just have profoundly different understandings of Wiktionary. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 05:23, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

... or perhaps I'm just really not understanding you? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 07:00, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The entry says that it's a combining form of another word, it doesn't provide any definition. On Wiktionary only words without meanings lack definitions, excepting alt-form redirects and non-lemma entries. महा never occurs on its own (in terms of "separated with whitespace in writing", or "pronounced separately when speaking") in that form. It's not a word in Sanskrit. Sanskrit compounding forms are not like inter- and other affixes in English and other languages - basically every single word can have a bunch of these forms depending on word sandhi.

The definition line of inter- is now encapsulated with {{n-g}}. Even in this form it's deficient because inter- does not mean among, between, amid, during, since these all are not lexical words either. It should be something along "Prefix used to form nouns and adjectives indicating this-and-that type of relationship, corresponding to the usage of prepositions among, between, amid etc.".

Now suppose that all of those derivations with inter- where overwhelmingly written separately, as inter governmental or inter state, until relatively recently (C20), and admitted only stems of Latin origin. Would it be justifiable to have a separate entry on inter? This is such a case. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 20:27, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Eirikr, you are correct that different spellings are treated as different entries, and citations of maha do not verify mahā. Iff they are not invalidated by other factors such as italics, or being mentions rather than uses, etc, citations of maha verify maha. Macrons have been in use for hundreds of years, so Ivan, your assertion that there was historically no way to make a typographic distinction between maha and mahā is simply mistaken. I agree with Eirikr's comments of 00:51, 7 February 2015, including that maha raja is an alternative form of maharaja, not a use of *maha#English + *raja#English. (Does anyone other than Ivan feel otherwise?) - -sche (discuss) 03:48, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A reader coming across the phrase maha raja is likely to see these as two separate words, and will (correctly) conclude that "maha" and "raja" each contribute some different meaning to the whole phrase. This is particularly so if the same reader also sees phrases like maha bharata or maha yogi. Of course, the same applies for examples of each of these phrases using mahā. bd2412 T 04:21, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, a reader will likely conclude that each discrete space-delimited string of characters conveys some discrete unit of meaning. However, does the maha in [[maha raja]] parse as English? Would the reader infer that they can then refer to a maha deal, a maha examination, a maha big mess, and expect other English readers to understand? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 05:23, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
How is maha in maha raja any less English than inter in international ? Answer: none of these are English. But it's a separate word, spelled separately for a reason that it is pronounced separately, reflecting what is now an obsolete orthographical practice. People will look up raja, see that it means something, and they will look up maha, and won't find anything (relevant). --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 20:33, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is my position that a citation of "maha" does not attest "mahā"; the two are different spellings, to be attested separately. In this I support -sche and Eirikr. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:48, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
A third quote for the mahā spelling has been added. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 17:11, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Neither of the additional citations adequately show use of [[mahā]] as English. One of the additions is [[mahā]] not as a term, but as part of a title: Mahā Purusha is apparently the title of a 1985 film. The other addition is as part of the compound term mahā mudrā, which is apparently a yoga position. These do not illustrate use of [[mahā]] as an independent English term. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 22:22, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Maha Purusha is not the name of a movie in that particular citation (note the date), but an anglicized spelling for the Sanskrit term mahā-puruṣa. mahā is a word by the virtue of being separated with whitespace. I'm still waiting for your definition of independent term. It's not a lexical word, but the definition line for mahā doesn't even claim that it is. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 00:07, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You have not demonstrated that [[mahā]] ever appears in an English text in a way that is 1) not an untranslated term used as code-switching in a text targeted at readers likely familiar with Sanskrit, Pali, etc.; 2) not part of a compound term that has been used as an integral whole in a way where [[mahā]] has no clearly independent meaning in English; 3) actually used as English, such as with English modifiers like more or less, and where [[mahā]] is used to modify a common English term. None of your examples serve as adequate evidence that [[mahā]] is being used as English.

I am perfectly happy for EN WT to have an entry at [[mahā]]. Given the evidence to date, I am strongly opposed to any [[mahā]] entry that lists [[mahā]] as an English term. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 00:17, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am not supposed to demonstrate anything of that because the definition line for the third meaning doesn't require it. Whether it should be kept or not is a different matter (for RFD). Note also that there are sufficiently large number of attestations for English of both X and maha X forms (e.g. maha raja and maha purusha mentioned in this very discussion), which is arguably in favor of the claim that maha is in fact a native English adjective used within these constructs meaning "great", but that is already covered by the preceding definitions, and precluded by our knowledge of the origin of such constructs (direct borrowings from sa). --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 00:48, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Limiting discussion just to the third sense (which I admit I was not doing -- I was still writing in reference to the entire English entry for [[mahā]]), there are currently five citations listed. These five are, in order:

Invalid: wrong spelling ([[maha]]).
Invalid: part of the untranslated title of a literary work (the w:Mahabharata).
Invalid: apparently part of a proper noun (Mahā Purusha), and also clearly delineated in a way to indicate use of an untranslated non-English term (italicized). This is also the only appearance of this term in the entire cited book.
Invalid: code switching in a text targeted at an audience already familiar with various Sanskrit and/or Pali terminology, and also clearly delineated in a way to indicate use of an untranslated non-English term (underlined). If Google Books is to be believed, the word [[mahā]] appears six times in this book, and only as part of the compound term mahā mudrā.
Invalid: wrong spelling ([[maha]]).

Analysis indicates that none of the provided citations are valid or sufficient to illustrate use of this term, with this particular sense, as English. Delete.

Once we are done beating this dead horse, I would like to nominate the entire English entry for RFV / RFD. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 02:09, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

mahā and maha are the same words in English. The difference is in a macron which is not a part of the English alphabet.

Sanskrit words used in English are not "untranslated" Sanskrit words. They are English words.

The frequency by which a term appears in a work is irrelevant for the purposes of a single attestation. Yes it's a part of the noun (there is no concept of a proper noun in Sanskrit) - but it's spelled and pronounced as a separate word in English, which is not the case in the Sanskrit original. That is both explained in the definition line and the usage note. I'm glad that you've reached that conclusion on your own.

This is not code switching. These are not snippets of Sanskrit used in English. Those are ordinary English words fitting into English syntactical structure. They are used as objects, qualified with articles, pluralized and so on. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 00:47, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Could anyone else chime in? I feel like Ivan and I are going in circles. More discussion also at [[Talk:mahā]].

Specific issues that I'm hoping others can help address:

Can examples of Spelling A be used as attestations of Spelling B? In this case, are quotes containing maha sufficient to attest the term mahā?

From my reading of past discussions about citations, I arrived at the understanding that citations must demonstrate use of the relevant word with exactly the same spelling. As such, attestations of ate cannot be used to verify the existence of et. Users -sche and Dan Polansky seem to agree with my position, that any citations used to verify the existence of mahā must use the same spelling, diacritics and all.

Are terms that are clearly set off in a text (using italics, reverse italics, bold, quotes, etc.) sufficient to demonstrate the non-foreign-ness of that term?

Other discussions suggest that italics and the like are used by authors to indicate the non-nativeness of a term. Ivan above clearly disagrees.

Are uses in transliterated titles and names sufficient for attestation?

Two of the citations at [[mahā]] appear to be titles, one the title of a literary work, the other a personal epithet.

There are other issues at hand as well, but for starters, I would appreciate input on the above two points.

TIA, ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 01:36, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The form mahā now has has three attestations on its own.

"foreign-ness" and "non-nativeness" (whatever that means) is not a criteria to exclude words. The criteria is usage in English. The problem is that you don't define usage on semantic grounds (i.e. words being used in their meaning alongside other English words to contruct a complete English sentence), but on how they are formatted and where do they originate form. All of these are irrelevant points. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 01:51, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: There is no entry at maha reflecting the senses reported at mahā. It is quite likely that citations supporting additions of those senses to maha could be found, given the usage of the less convenient diacritic form. bd2412 T 04:35, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The spelling with the diacritic is the more proper one, and that's where the senses and citations should be located. The only exceptions should be relatively common terms (e.g. Shiva not Śiva). --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 14:27, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As for transliterated titles (of literary works and such), my position is that "... are the two great epics, the "Rāmāyana" and the Mahā Bhārata" is not an attestation of "mahā" as an English word conveying meaning, and should be removed from mahā page. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:15, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
But it's not even defined as a lexical word with a meaning. It's definition is surrounded with the {{n-g}} template. Having a meaning is not a criteria for inclusion, otherwise we wouldn't have entries on affixes, prepositions and so on. Furthermore, it's a part of the title only in that specific citation by sheer coincidence - in others it is not. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 14:27, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It's not void of linguistic effect, though. A sentence with "mahā" at a certain place means something different than a sentence with nothing (or four letters of random gibberish) at the same place. bd2412 T 21:18, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Consider the following Czech sentence: Přiletěla do New Yorku se zpožděním. Does it attest "New York" as a Czech term? I'd say yes. Does it attest "New" as a Czech term? I'd say no. --Dan Polansky (talk) 21:46, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

kratocratic

— Ungoliant ^(falai) 19:27, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I could find two hits for cratocratic, 0 for this. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 19:29, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I recently heard a pundit on a news talk show use it to describe Putins regime. I notice some webpages are using the word kratocratic. Perhaps, someone with better search skills can take a shot at it! WritersCramp (talk) 19:49, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Zero hits on Google Scholar. I see no actual usage in the returns on Google Books. Two hits from Google News, one from Vibe and the other from TheOnion. bd2412 T 21:11, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Did you hear whether they used the "k" or the "c" spelling? ;) Chuck Entz (talk) 03:44, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We might also want to consider kratocracy for RFV. Equinox ◑ 23:46, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I added three links as References that show multiple uses of 'kratocratic' and 'kratocracy'. Perhaps the two spelling variations should be connected, one of them redirecting to the other?

What two spelling variations are you aware of? I only see kratocratic. If you are referring to kratocracy, that is a wholly separate word, the noun counterpart to the adjective kratocratic, and not a spelling variation. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 16:49, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you realize that websites don't count for purposes of verification, unless they're simply displaying text that is durably archived elsewhere (for instance, an electronic copy of the printed version of a book or newspaper). You need to provide sufficient references to durably-archived examples of usage, or the entry is going to be deleted- whether you provide three or three hundred links to blogs and other websites. See WT:CFI for details. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:02, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

hammer fist

SOP? If not, the def needs reworking and the entry could use with some usexes and citations. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 00:07, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

pee-ew

Really? SemperBlotto (talk) 13:33, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's just a variation on P U, so an "expression of disgust" at an actual or metaphorical stench. Chuck Entz (talk) 13:43, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Four quotations added. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 13:47, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

franglophone

The definition seems wrong. The word gets exactly three English-language hits in BGC, but to me they seem to mean "bilingual speaker of English and French". Even that usage is questionable as the word is either followed by a question mark or is between brackets or quotation marks. --Hekaheka (talk) 14:34, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am unable to find three uses of any single English sense. If any French-speaking editors have the inclination, though, I think there are enough Google Books, Google Groups, and Google Scholar hits to support at least one French sense. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 16:52, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No defenders in two months - delete? --Hekaheka (talk) 07:40, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

藍褸

I just changed this to alternative form of 襤褸, but the only dictionary that lists this 藍褸 form is JMdict, and other Japanese dictionaries only give 襤褸 (which is the standard form used in Japanese). (additional note: the same thing happened with JMdict on the entry for 鼾睡, which was previously 鼾酔, a form again only listed in JMdict, until Eirikr moved it to the correct form) Nibiko (talk) 12:44, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've noticed in the past that JMdict and KANJIDIC (possibly the same datasets?) have occasionally included mistakes, so I always take their information with a grain of salt. When a purported kanji spelling and the meaning diverge substantially, as was the case with 鼾酔, my eyebrows rise. (FWIW, the JA term kansui spelled with the first character as 鼾 (kan, “snoring”) is listed as meaning "to sleep while snoring". The spelling 鼾睡 expresses that meaning. The JMdict spelling 鼾酔, meanwhile, is listed as meaning just "snoring", but the meaning inherent in the spelling is more like "drunken snorning; to be drunk while snoring".)

The Kokugo Dai Jiten (KDJ) from Shogakukan is pretty good about listing even rare and obsolete terms and alternative spellings, so if a spelling is missing from the KDJ, I become suspicious. When a given spelling doesn't even appear in use in a Google search (zero hits for "鼾酔は", which seems highly suspect; moreover, all given hits for just "鼾酔" seem to be JMdict echoes), I start to think that JMdict made another mistake.

Looking at 藍褸, this appears to be yet another JMdict mistake. This compound's spelling inherently means "indigo + tattered". Japanese ぼろ (boro) means "rag; ragged, threadbare, raggedy", so the 藍 (“indigo”) spelling seems very odd. The normal kanji spelling for boro is 襤褸, and this spelling is literally "threadbare + tattered", which makes much more sense for the meaning of the term boro.

A quick Google search for google:"藍褸"+"は" seems to find 4110 hits, collapsing to just 132 if you try to page through, and all of these appear to be JMdict echoes. Searching for google books:"藍褸"+"は" seems to generate 117 hits, collapsing to 47, but all of the hits I've looked at are presented at best in "Snippet View" based on OCR. I strongly suspect that these are scannos, especially given the jumbled nature of many of the excerpts shown by Google.

@Tsukuyone, TAKASUGI Shinji, Whym, エリック・キィ you're all listed as native JA speakers, and I think you're all active. Can any of you confirm the status of the 藍褸 spelling? Is this an alternative form for 襤褸? Is it a common misspelling for 襤褸? Or, is it a mistake? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 19:54, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

藍褸 seems a rare alternate spelling of 襤褸, though I have never seen it: [60], [61]. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 04:54, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I too have never seen this. The links you include, however, also suggest the possibility of simple scannos -- where OCR has misinterpreted the text and used the wrong character.

Can anyone confirm whether this spelling actually happens in the real world? Or is this purely an artifact of inadequate technology? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 07:48, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is an alternative spelling mostly for Chinese. “漢字典”（Kanjiten, 2002, Akira Owada [et al.], Tōkyō: Ōbunsha. ISBN 4-01-072118-9）, a paper dictionary dedicated to reading Old Chinese, contains this entry as a synonym of 襤褸 although their are all represented in on'yomi, ランル. It has even another alternative spelling, 藍蔞. Judging from the element, I personally hesitate to put 藍褸 as Japanese lemma. Furthermore, I usually write this word mostly in hiragana (ぼろ) or katakana (ボロ). --エリック・キィ (talk) 08:53, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I would suggest to include it as an obsolete alternative spelling in Japanese, perhaps adding that it was primarily used in the context of sinology. Daijiten (1934-1936) and Jigen (1923) list it explicitly as an alternate spelling. Jigen further explains in the entry for 藍 that "襤は古、藍に通ず" ("襤 traditionally leads to 藍"). It should be noted that in this context Jigen probably means ancient Chinese by "traditionally", though. There is what looks like a non-scanno use in Japanese in 狩野直喜『支那學文藪』(1927), p.295 (at the fifth line from the right): "一方より見れば彼が斯學に於ける篳路藍褸の功はその人格によってこれを沒することは出來ぬ。" The work itself seems to be about sinology, in line with エリック・キィ's comment above. Another is in 青柳綱太郎『鮮人の記せる豊太閤征韓戦記』(1912) (...): "藍褸の狀は、反つて平凉子を戴くが如くならず". That said, I'm with others about the (lack of) current usage. I had never seen the spelling before and for me 襤 and 藍 are totally different except for the shared on'yomi pronunciation (ran). By the way, we should probably remove boro and add ranru as for the pronunciation of (deprecated template usage) 藍褸 unless the former reading is attested. So far all we have found about the spelling is read ranru not boro, unlike (deprecated template usage) 襤褸 which should have both. Whym (talk) 03:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, thanks for the 縷説, everyone ;D I'll make the changes, Whym. Nibiko (talk) 21:50, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

sig

RFV of etymology 2, the noun meaning "victory". The sense had three citations, but one was from a website, one (moved to the talk page) seems to be of the Old English word, mentioned in quotation marks, and the third is of "Sig rune" as a proper name of this rune. (Diana Paxson uses "sig" in compounds a lot, e.g. "word-sig", "work-sig", "sig-galdor", "sig-rod", but it's not clear to me that it means "victory" rather than the rune in these compounds.) Incidentally, that sense — sig as one of the names of the 's' rune — is probably citable in both uppercase and lowercase, as are most of the rune names (ansuz, etc), though we don't currently have entries for them that I've found. - -sche (discuss) 20:57, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 22:05, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ghayr muqallidism

Very rare. Needs third citation. Equinox ◑ 14:16, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The second citation uses ghair muqallidism. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 15:04, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

St. Elmo's fires, Saint Elmo's fires

A mass noun, so are these two attestable? Donnanz (talk) 11:20, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've added three quotations of each, and more are available on Google Books. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 12:40, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In any case, I will change the main entries to countable/uncountable, pending the outcome here. Donnanz (talk) 13:06, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

prescind

Rfv-senses (3)

(deprecated template usage) (intransitive) To cut off, detach or separate something
(deprecated template usage) (intransitive) To think about multiple things individually
(deprecated template usage) (intransitive) To stop thinking about something

I have added two senses that I could understand that seem to fit both other dictionaries' definitions and the usage I found. But there is some, sparse usage that I can't make much sense of. Perhaps these senses fit that usage. DCDuring TALK 16:43, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

cumsicle

Created by Luciferwildcat, who was notorious for bad entries. Very little (in terms of actual usage) to be found in Google Books and Groups. Equinox ◑ 00:22, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This word is extremely crude. I have no problem with this word being removed. Tharthan (talk) 03:07, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's Luciferwildcat for you: he evidently decided to specialize in adding terms everyone else found too disgusting to deal with. The problem is that he didn't really care if the stuff he came up with was in actual use, and had no sense at all when it came to lexicology. He was very prolific, and probably has more deleted entries to his name than just about anyone else in the history of Wiktionary (though WF has quite a few, too). Chuck Entz (talk) 03:35, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cited (just barely) under the existing sense. There's a couple of other senses (penis viewed in relation to fellatio, and general term of abuse) which I'll also attempt to cite. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 20:26, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

-icle

Supposed to explain constructions like beersicle and cumsicle, but in that case where does the s come from? Surely these are blends with popsicle, and this is not a true suffix. Equinox ◑ 00:32, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is what comes of not discouraging ahistorical morphological pseudo-etymologies when there is a historical record.

The problem starts with the entry for popsicle. There was no pre-existing -icle suffix. The term was coined as a trademark, a development of the original "Epsicle" (a blend of inventor Epperson's last name and icicle [spelling following the sound, not the orthography]). w:Popsicle (brand) has the story, which looks reasonably well researched. Popsicle would seem to be a blend of (soda) pop and Epsicle.

I think the blend view for beersicle is good, but would-be contributors like to have entries like -icle to fit their concept of how terms develop. The situation is somewhat analogous to the persistent pressure to include collocations as if they were idioms, no matter how transparent. DCDuring TALK 01:05, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

An arguably transparent collocation is much less damaging to the dictionary than an incorrect interpretation of a suffix. It is abundantly clear that "-sicle", not "-icle", is used to create words (in addition to the foregoing, dogsicle and dicksicle appear attestable). I have yet to find a word formed by adding just "-icle". Of course, not all suffixes are handed down from antiquity (see -zilla, -a-palooza, -punk). bd2412 T 04:29, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And nonetheless, no one has acted to reverse the numerous erroneous "equivalent to" morphologies and hard-coded "suffixed by" categorizations. DCDuring TALK 06:20, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@BD2412 The word snoticle is clearly not from the popsicle root (see here if you don't know what it is) and must be formed from comparison with icicle. I'm pretty sure the word is current, I've heard it on at least two documentaries now, but off-hand couldn't find acceptable cites to create an entry. Spinning Spark 20:38, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

For all I know, "snoticle" may be formed from comparison with testicle. bd2412 T 20:49, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first thing to do would be to create an entry for snoticle with attestation, especially early use. DCDuring TALK 20:53, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Of course it isn't formed from testicle, that's obviously a load of balls. You criticise me for saying this is obvious, yet you are quite happy to say it is "abundandly clear" on the "-sicle" ending with equally little evidence. Spinning Spark 00:15, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Spinningspark, bd2412 wasn't saying that snoticle is formed directly from snot + testicle, but rather by comparison with testicle, which suggests that the -icle (pseudo-?) suffix here is traceable to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin -culum or -culus (diminutive suffix). See also molecule, tuberculum, etc. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 00:46, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

At some point it might be that there are a sufficient number of instances of productive use of -icle that cannot be readily explained by any of the -(i}culus ("diminutive"), the icicle, or the popsicle theories. IMO that would not require full attestation of each instance, rather three or more instance of such productive use, possibly each with a single citation (from a durably archived source. Maybe none of the theories advanced fit snoticle, ie, if it isn't sucked on, it isn't cold, and it isn't "small". DCDuring TALK 02:13, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, perhaps I wasn't clear -- I was suggesting that -icle might ultimately derive from -(i)culus, not that it *is* -(i)culus.

On a separate note, this blog post does state that snoticle is from snot + icicle, suggesting that the spelunking term might be appropriation by analogy (i.e. the cave snoticles look like the frozen snot snoticles). ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 02:22, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to suggest that brinicle, rusticle, and snoticle together may provide evidence that should leads us to believe that -icle is becoming productive in a community of natural scientists. Brinicles are frozen, but the others are not. DCDuring TALK 02:46, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There's also something similar referred to as w:snottites Chuck Entz (talk) 03:45, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of other examples of the rusticle-type sense (neither sufficiently attested for a full entry): There seems to be rare use of "limicle" to mean a concretion of limestone (in other words, a stalactite), and Alan Turing coined (as a nonce word) "greasicle" for the wax that hangs from a candle. Smurrayinchester (talk) 11:00, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder whether any of these derive from barnacle, merely by pronunciation. bd2412 T 14:37, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think this shows sufficient evidence to demonstrate productivity as a distinct suffix. The attestable term rusticle and the other terms snoticle and limicle cannot be explained as blends of popsicle or icicle as they lack both the semantics and the phonetics. Greasicle is also likely due to the meaning though phonetics seem ambiguous. Brinicle is possible phonetically, but is at least ambiguous semantically. None of these can be plausibly explained semantically as derived from -culus as the semantics are wrong. DCDuring TALK 15:23, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To further demonstrate productivity one could add the numerous instances at Urban Dictionary of terms ending in -icle, most of which have lost the "s" sound and some of which are semantically remote from icicle and popsicle, though many are not. DCDuring TALK 15:20, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) I think the answer is that it started out as a blend, but was reanalyzed as stem + suffix when people started trying to coin similar words. It looks to me like most of the stem + suffix coinages used -sicle, but occasionally someone would reanalyze things again as stem + -icle. The reanalyses obliterate the true etymological origins of the class as a whole, but in my opinion they're valid for the new coinages. In the cases at hand, though, the stem + -icle ones are simply wrong- they don't account for the extra "s". I think what we need is the correct etymology at popsicle, as DC During laid it out for us, stem + -sicle for everything that has an "s" sound in the appropriate place, and stem + -icle for the one or two exceptions that don't have the "s" sound there and can't be explained as blends. That means we don't delete anything, but we redo most of the etymologies so that Category:English words suffixed with -icle loses most of its members to Category:English words suffixed with -sicle and Category:English blends (or maybe all, until someone verifies whatever rare exceptions there are out there). At any rate, this probably should have been at rfd or maybe rfc, since we all agree that the compounds exist, but most of us disagree with the way they're analyzed in the etymologies. After all, it's kind of hard to verify which suffix is used by looking at running English text. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:54, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think that "popsicle" is "sodapop" + -sicle. I would reckon that it is unfortunately "lollipop" + -sicle. Tharthan (talk) 03:12, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's certainly possible and might be the better choice. I read that the inventor came up with the idea from observing frozen soda pop with a stirrer or something left in the glass, but the role of the inventor's children leaves other possibilities. DCDuring TALK 15:20, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In agreement that we're dealing with two separate suffixes with two separate (but connected) etymologies: -icle, from (deprecated template usage) icicle, and -sicle, from (deprecated template usage) Popsicle. The former seems to be used mainly to construct words for things which dangle like an icicle, the latter mainly to construct words for things which in some way resemble a popsicle, i.e. being frozen or lickable. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 18:53, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, good. So "limicle" does exist? I'll have to mark that down in my list of native words and remember to use that instead of stalactite in the future. Thanks Smurrayinchester. Tharthan (talk) 21:34, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Cloudcuckoolander: If a term ending in icle has no immediately preceding "s" sound, is not plausibly a diminutive semantically, and is neither frozen nor to be sucked, and doesn't hang straight down like an icicle, then the evidence says it may well be considered to terminate in a suffix -icle. If it retains the connections phonetically ("s") or semantically with either with icicle ("frozen") or popsicle ("to be sucked") then the arguments are not so strong. -icle seems to have an etymology that includes (perhaps "influenced by") -culus("diminutive").

It seems likely that -icle will come to seem like a true suffix rather than the result of a blend in more cases as popsicle diminishes in import for a larger share of English speakers (India ?), but I don't think it is there yet. DCDuring TALK 21:40, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the etymology for ickle, the source of the -icle in icicle, I'm amused to see that this derives “from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *jikilaz, *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), diminutive of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *jekô (“lump of ice”)” -- suggesting a clear parallel between Latin diminutive -(cu)lus and Proto-Germanic *-(ku|ki)laz. (I see that the Latin term has no etymology, so I've just added an RFE to the underlying Latin lemma at -lus.) Does anyone know if these are cognates from a common root, or was one borrowed from the other? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 22:19, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, here is a list of all English entries ending in -icle, excluding derived terms, e.g. "bioparticle" derived from "particle"; as that example indicates, some entries in the list are not relevant to the discussion at hand. - -sche (discuss) 02:47, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DCDuring the Proto-Germanic diminutive attached to icicle's etymon is not based upon or influenced by Latin's diminutive suffix, but is rather cognate to it. Not the same thing. Tharthan (talk) 03:22, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was limiting myself to what I view as a possibly valid suffix used in the the very few terms ending in -icle that actually seem not to be derived by blending or from the Latin diminutive. That suffix, mostly used by natural scientists, might be influenced by the medical, scientific, and technical terms ending in -icle that are from Latin terms ending in -(c(u))lus. DCDuring TALK 03:55, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see. But who is to say that "-icle" hasn't been (in the minds of many) a hypothetical suffix meaning "(frozen) thing that hangs like an icicle", i.e. aforementioned limicle, rusticle, brinicle etc.? It may well be, yes. Tharthan (talk) 04:10, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A rusticle, limicle, or snoticle is not frozen. (A brinicle, OTOH, is.) I was looking for a subset of use that did not have the "s" sound and was somewhat remote semantically from icicle and popsicle. There are at least these three. Just about everything else is arguably still a blend of something with icicle, popsicle, or particle, if not a derivative of a Latin term ending is (c(u))lus. DCDuring TALK 04:47, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hence why I put frozen in rounded brackets. It seems much more likely that limicle is a blend of lime(stone) and icicle. Same for brinicle and rusticle. Tharthan (talk) 04:58, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dollar

Wikipedia:United States dollar:

"The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the Dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar or US Dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its overseas territories. It is a Federal Reserve Note and consists of 100 smaller cent units."

Should "Dollar" be capitalized? If so, doesn't that warrant a Wiktionary entry? I'm not entirely sure myself. WikiWinters (talk) 11:08, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Prescriptively speaking, it shouldn't be capitalized, because currency names aren't capitalized in English (compare pound, yen, euro, etc.). That doesn't mean it descriptively never is capitalized, though; if attestable it could conceivably be called an {{alternative case form of}} dollar. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 11:25, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps it should be capitalized when used as an alleged object of worship: the Almighty Dollar. DCDuring TALK 20:56, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It follows the general capitalization rules: capitalized at the beginning of a sentence, when it's personalized, etc. There is no need for a definition. Lmaltier (talk) 21:03, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

colom xixella

Catalan, a type of pigeon. The best I could find was a Wikipedia page about pigeons. --Type56op9 (talk) 16:58, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is probably SOP anyway- see xixella. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:58, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the most common English name for the species is stock dove, in the same way that wild pigeons are referred to often (at least in older sources) as rock doves. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:03, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV failed. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 15:10, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

forbisen

I can't find any citations of the verb, and the only hits I can find of the noun are of a medicine (apparently unrelated to the entry we have). - -sche (discuss) 22:49, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I found this: http://www.slideshare.net/accipio/william-langlandsvisionofpiersplowmaneditedbybenbyramwigfield

Search for the word on the page. Tharthan (talk) 02:43, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

http://archive.org/stream/exempluminearly01moshgoog/exempluminearly01moshgoog_djvu.txt

This text has it in reference to an Old English quote, but the Old English quote in question uses "forbisne". It is possible that the author of the text was taking a jab at the Modern English term, which had become quite dated (or perhaps already archaic by this time). Tharthan (talk) 02:50, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

http://archive.org/stream/englishdialects00elligoog/englishdialects00elligoog_djvu.txt

Found it in this text which details dialectal English vocabulary. Tharthan (talk) 02:52, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As best I can tell, your first link is a 1906 updated addition (=translation into modern English) of William Langland's Piers Plowman; it attests the spellings "forbisne" and "forbisen":

"How seven sithes the sad man sinneth on the day. times By a forbisne," quoth the friar, "I shall thee fair shew."

[The] Holy Church is honoured highly through his dying; He is a forbisen to all bishops and a bright mirror […]

The second link only contains Old English uses and mentions in my opinion, but perhaps someone else interprets it differently.

The third link only mentions but does not use the word.

- -sche (discuss) 22:20, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

bytale

google books:"a bytale" turns up nothing, and bare "bytale" turns up nothing obvious, although there were so many scannos of "by tale" that I may have missed something. - -sche (discuss) 22:59, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is one of those "scanned from image to text" texts, but this contains a possible instance of the term: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AJF7956.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

(NOTE: This takes umpteen years to load on my computer, but it does eventually load.) Tharthan (talk) 02:38, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

bysen

I can't find modern English uses to support any of the senses; only mentions in other dictionaries and wordlists of the phrase "a shame and a bysen", which could potentially support one sense. I have not yet checked any of the many alt spellings we and other dictionaries list (bizon, bisen, byzen, byson, bysson, barzon, bazon, bizzen).
Some hits are scannos of "by sense" and eye dialect of "business", others are mentions of Old English words.
- -sche (discuss) 23:04, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The English Dialect Dictionary has (pointers to) citations of

bizon (Midford's Sngs., 1818)
bison (Robson's Bards of Tyne, 1895)
byzin (Keelmin's Ann., 1869)
byzen (Anderson's Ballads, 1808)
bizen (Stuart's Joco-Ser. Disc., 1686; Linton's Lizzie Lorton, 1867; Waugh's Jannock, 1872)

Some of these may be Scots. - -sche (discuss) 23:12, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This word most certainly still exists. It is, however, quite rare. Finding attestations to it is even harder, as the Web is cluttered with unrelated material that has to be bumped into before one can find the attestations. Tharthan (talk) 02:47, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OK, Eliza Lynn Linton's Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg (1866)[62] is English and on page 97 does use the word: " […] and a bizen like this." That's one English citation of that spelling. - -sche (discuss) 22:28, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

amercement royal

Any non-mentions out there? Smurrayinchester (talk) 09:39, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

chebah

Slang for marijuana. I see a handful of Web page hits. Equinox ◑ 20:24, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV failed. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 12:26, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

tribreve

A dictionary-only word. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 21:59, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

mooch ass grassy ass

Citations, pour fab or? Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:09, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There's one for "Mooch-ass grassy-ass" on grassy ass. Siuenti (talk) 23:19, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's the same one we currently have at mooch ass grassy ass, and I'd argue that it's not a valid citation for either. It's not being used for its meaning, but solely as the punchline to a knock-knock joke:

"Knock knock!" Eh? Who dere? "Grassy!" Grassy? Grassy quién? "Grassy-ass, amigo! Mooch-ass grassy-ass!" Ha ha, de nada, jefe!

The citation that Mr. Granger added seems valid though (even though it occurs in the context of another phonetic spelling). Smurrayinchester (talk) 08:35, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ÆØÅ

-- Liliana • 02:10, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A very weird one. Certainly widely used on Usenet (more in Danish/Norwegian than English though), although it looks like it simply means "Æ, Ø, and Å" (rather than meaning "special characters" more generally). The hashtag thing also seems to be accurate (these are the tweets tagged #ÆØÅ), but a) I don't know how we could cite that, and b) a hashtag isn't really dictionary material and I can't find any evidence of it being used as an adjective outside tags. Smurrayinchester (talk) 08:46, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you search on the letters in other orders, you get the same kinds of hits on Usenet (though far fewer- maybe it's the standard order). It doesn't look like what's defined. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:07, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The last three letters in both Danish and Norwegian (that is the correct order), and they all come after Z. I don't know whether this entry is useful or not though. Donnanz (talk) 22:16, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

None of the usexes suggest that this has any idiomatic meaning. - -sche (discuss) 20:25, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Serer

Rfv-sense religion practiced by the Serer people. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:54, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If this fails, whoever deletes the sense please remember to also delete the term from Template:list:religionists/en. - -sche (discuss) 09:08, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV failed. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 19:41, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yoruban

Rfv-sense "An adherent of the Yoruba religion". —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:55, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV failed. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 19:45, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

L.P.

As a Libertarian (registered in the US political party), I've never seen this form of the acronym before. I've only seen it without the periods. We don't have G.O.P. --WikiWinters (talk) 21:05, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't call it an acronym, since I doubt anyone would pronounce it as a word rather than as the names of the letters. The person who created the entry lives in England and is notorious for creating entries without any evidence that the terms actually exist, so you're probably right to question it- but searching for the combination of two common individual letters is going to be a nightmare. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:46, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Chuck Entz So where do we go from here? --WikiWinters (talk) 17:31, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Normal procedure: no quotes, no defenders, dubious origin, two months gone since nomination > delete. --Hekaheka (talk) 07:43, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

aro

"An androsexual male or SGA male." Really? I've only seen this as recent Internet slang for aromantic, which means something rather different. Equinox ◑ 21:40, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

bonsai

Kiwima (talk • contribs) added an interjection sense in this edit, with a defintion of “A cry before jumping out at or attacking something.”

Isn't that banzai instead? Do people actually use bonsai in English with this meaning? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 07:36, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There is a great deal of confusion on that matter among most Americans, and some books do seem to reference this, but I don't think it's a real sense; depends whether you count something like the example on page 144 of Weirdsville USA: The Obsessive Universe of David Lynch by Paul Woods: "Suddenly distracted by a bonsai plant, Gordon mistakes the Japanese war cry ('Banzai!') in WWII movies: 'BONSAI!' he hollers […] ". —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:53, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like Kiwima changed it to a {{misspelling of}} (and I just added the template). I'm fine with that rendering. My remaining question is whether the misspelling belongs under the same etymology heading, since the banzai sense has nothing to do with Middle Chinese bowl + plant. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 16:15, 9 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The {{rfv}} template was removed several weeks ago, and the etymologies have now been split, so I'm striking the heading. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 16:59, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Barney-style

I searched for this plus army in Google Books and found only one relevant result: Embedded: A Marine Corps Adviser Inside the Iraqi Army by Wesley Gray, which has more of a mention than a use. Equinox ◑ 00:50, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A few cites (hyphen use is inconsistent):

1996, Chris E. Stout, The Integration of Psychological Principles in Policy Development, Greenwood Publishing Group (ISBN 9780275950118), page 191
Compassion, self-esteem (based on achievement rather than mere repetition of Barney-style mantras), self-discipline, work ethic, and patience are among the other values taught in this program.
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2010, Paul J. Roarke, Corps Strength: A Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant's Program for Elite Fitness, Ulysses Press (ISBN 9781569757741), page 16
I'll break it down for you, as we say in the Marines, “Barney style.” The foundation for health and fitness can only be built on three solid blocks: Half a brain, The RIGHT exercise, and good food.
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2011, Daniel Powers, The Perfect Devotional for People Who Aren't, Xlibris Corporation (ISBN 9781456890926), page 653
I will break it down Barney style for you real quick. Say you have a child, and that child is reaching into the cookie jar.
2013, Jess Bravin, The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay, Yale University Press (ISBN 9780300189209), page 146
“He can really take a complex, complicated subject and break it down, Barney-style,” Couch said, like the purple dinosaur popular with preschoolers.

Smurrayinchester (talk) 09:12, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't realise it was named after the children's educational dinosaur character. (Ety now added.) If he is used in other phrases ("tell it to me like Barney would"?) then perhaps the entry should be Barney, making this SoP; though this is just an observation. Equinox ◑ 16:39, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

mosby

To propose marriage on the first date (after a character in How I Met Your Mother). It's in Urban Dictionary... Equinox ◑ 00:52, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looking into the past tense, as a means of avoiding instances of the name:

mosbied - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library

I get nothing. Looking at the wider web, google:"mosbied" shows 398 hits, but that collapses down to 98 when paging through them. I don't think this even qualifies for “hot word” status, let alone a regular entry. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 01:54, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

homoromanticness

Equinox ◑ 16:32, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I could not cite this. On the other hand, homoromanticism, which has the same meaning (and seems a lot less awkward), proved citable. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 22:25, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

aromanticness

Equinox ◑ 16:33, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't cite. Probably because aromanticism is the form that has caught on. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 22:41, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

demiromanticism

demiromantic

Equinox ◑ 16:36, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't cite. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 23:15, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't really cite demiromantic to my satisfaction either. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk)

sapioromanticism

sapioromantic

Equinox ◑ 16:37, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't cite. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 23:14, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Same goes for sapioromantic. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 23:17, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've added it to the RFV. - -sche (discuss) 06:16, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

polyromanticism

polyromantic

The single Google Books match is an obvious nonce (in quotation marks) and is not even the given sense! Equinox ◑ 16:38, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, User:kc_kennylau has been re-adding rubbish like "heteroromanticness" and "sapioromanticness" in blatant contradiction of WT:CFI. I blocked him for a day so he can actually read the rules. Equinox ◑ 02:38, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't cite. Also couldn't cite polyromantic. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 00:40, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

5à7s

French - Supposed to be the plural of 5à7. Searching for this term is inherently difficult, due to the punctuation marks. Also 5-à-7s, 5@7s, 5 à 7s. Also, I'd guess that 5 à 7 are invariable nouns in French, but I never learned the plural spelling rules for entries composed mostly of numbers and punctuation. I was a letters man myself... --Type56op9 (talk) 09:49, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Plural same as singular: Les entrées se feront le parfait compagnon de vos 5 à 7. —Stephen ^(Talk) 10:15, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yep delete per SGB. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:16, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

pustula

An IP tried to remove the Italian section with the edit comment "please don't be silly: this word DOES NOT EXIST". It may not be the normal or preferred form, but does it actually not exist? I found this, but I don't know this dictionary very well, so I don't know if they include as dialects what we consider to be separate languages, and I hardly speak Italian at all (it's only a mention, anyway). There seem to be Italian Google Books hits, but I'll leave it to others who speak Italian to decide if they're applicable, and whether it merits context tags. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:47, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It’s an obsolete spelling, or at least chiefly obsolete. Most post-1950 hits in Google Books are reprints of older books, or are quoting older text. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 15:03, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cited easily. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:28, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV passed: attesting quotations for the Italian term are at pustula. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:21, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Saran Wrap

Is this a trademark? If so, can the entry be marked suitably? Donnanz (talk) 15:31, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's in the category of stuff like Kleenex and Jell-O that start out as brand names but are now used generically. Also, it's a verb too, the most verifiable form of which is saran-wrap. Purple backpack89 21:20, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The only thing that could be determined by rfv is whether it meets WT:BRAND. If it does, then the matter of whether it is/was a trademark should go in the etymology section (etymonline has an entry for Saran, which it says is trademarked). As PBP says, this is probably a w:Generic trademark, which means it's valid dictionary material for us and an unending source of annoyance for Dow Chemical Co.'s intellectual-property people ... Chuck Entz (talk) 02:20, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is tangential, but I suspect that either Saran wrap or saran wrap is the more common capitalization. - -sche (discuss) 05:20, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

...although ngrams suggest otherwise. Huh. - -sche (discuss) 05:22, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So it's possibly 50% trademark? I haven't got a clue, I don't think it's sold here, and I think it's what we call "cling film". Donnanz (talk) 10:13, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's listed in the Oxford Dictionary of English (both hard copy and online) as a trademark. Origin: 1940s, of unknown origin. Donnanz (talk) 18:45, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note that ngrams might merely reflect the fact that this product is commonly referred to as a specific trademark, and not in the generic sense required by WT:BRAND. bd2412 T 19:22, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As Chuck Entz says, it's valid dictionary material; if Oxford can list it without any repercussions, so can Wiktionary. Donnanz (talk) 19:41, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There is ample evidence that it has been genericized, such as saranwrap, use of verbal inflected forms of variant spellings, and attributive use, but not all of the evidence is of the form being RfVed. DCDuring TALK 21:29, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest making Saran wrap the lemma, with a redirect from saran wrap (and also Saran Wrap if that form meets BRAND). Put a note in the etymology section that it originated as a brand name, if this is the case. (Avoid any other indication of trademark status, since it opens up a can of legal worms; see WT:TRADEMARK.) - -sche (discuss) 22:41, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oxford uses the same format (Saran Wrap) so it must be widespread. I think this entry should keep the format it has at present. Donnanz (talk) 23:11, 28 February 2015 (UTC) [reply]

The trademark can be mentioned in the etymology. Not mentioning it at all is misleading. DCDuring TALK 22:45, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A few forms are in use, Saran wrap and saranwrap not being common. Saran Wrap, the trademarked product, was formerly, but is no longer made from PVDC. Saran is apparently still a trade name for PVDC. DCDuring TALK 00:18, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My position is that Saran Wrap should be the lemma, and that there is no genuine doubt about this being attested per WT:ATTEST. See also “Saran Wrap”, in OneLook Dictionary Search., which finds "Saran Wrap" and "Saran wrap" in oxforddictionaries.com[63] ("Saran Wrap", not OED), Collins[64] ("Saran wrap"), and Macmillan[65] ("Saran Wrap"). Ngram for "Saran wrap", case-insensitive does not provided any conclusive evidence that the occurrences of "Saran Wrap" are not in the genericized use. Looking for attesting quotations supporting WT:BRAND specifically (a policy that I never supported, and for which a rationale has never been presented) is something I feel disinclined to do right now. Also for comparison: (saranwrap*50),Saran Wrap,saran wrap at Google Ngram Viewer. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:01, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

vexy

Nothing obvious on a quick Google book search. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:44, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV failed. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 01:04, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kangxi

Rfv-sense

Does anyone really refer to the Kangxi Dictionary as "Kangxi", or 釒 as a "Kangxi"?

eye-feel

Really? SemperBlotto (talk) 20:51, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing in Google Books or Google Groups. Hundreds of instances of "eye. Feel", and also lots of "how does your eye feel?" and "make your eye feel". A handful of eye-dialect/sillyness cases along the lines of "eye feel reel-E bad". Two or three uses referring to feeling in the eye itself. Absolutely nothing that matches the definitions given. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:55, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Really. DanKanes (talk) 19:32, 1 March 2015 (UTC) This is a term that was coined to help people rate their experience with new Near-Eye Display Technologies (ex. Oculus and other VR Head sets, Virtual Retinal Displays like Avegant Glyph, Microsoft Hololens, MagicLeap)[reply]

Used in a sentence:

"While the Oculus Rift DK2 headset is capable of providing a somewhat immersive experience, the eye-feel is just not compelling."

in another sentence

"The eye-feel of the Avegant "Jellyfish" prototype I tested in the lab the other day was OFF THE SCALE."

Coined by whom? We're a descriptive dictionary, so we only include terms that are already in use- and not just by the people who thought them up. Unless someone comes up with at least three independent examples of use in durably-archived sources, the entry will be deleted. I just tried the two most obvious ways to find such examples, and found nothing. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:49, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

March 2015

martyr

rfv-sense: One who is killed or suffers greatly because of an identity or position, e.g., a young prince killed when his father, the king, is deposed for the purpose of preventing the restoration of the monarchy later. We already seem to include this sense at sense #2: One who sacrifices his or her life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause. ---> Tooironic (talk) 01:28, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You sure you want to RfV this? Not RfD it? Purple backpack89 14:09, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I interpret "sacrifice" in sense 2 as conveying that the martyr had some degree of control over what happened to them, e.g. they refused to renounce their views on some matter even though they knew it meant they would be killed. Sense 4 then seems to be distinct (since the son has no control over who his father is). The questions are then (a) is sense 4 attested?, and (b) is it better to have separate senses 2 (and 3) and 4, or to combine some of them? - -sche (discuss) 16:14, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

racefellow

Attested per WT:ATTEST? google books:"racefellow", google groups:"racefellow", “racefellow”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.. --Dan Polansky (talk) 21:02, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

google books:"racefellows" actually finds what would be race-fellows, it seems; race-fellows seems attested. --Dan Polansky (talk) 21:06, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

foresave

The given citation is the only Google Books result for "to foresave". Equinox ◑ 04:37, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

cited and labelled rare, as it is extremely rare yet exists Leasnam (talk) 05:25, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It still seems that some forms (foresaving) are not attestable: is this a rare error by e.g. learners? Equinox ◑ 05:14, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

cupiosexual

As-yet-impossible-to-attest Tumblrism. Bringing it here for the benefit of the doubt. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 06:08, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like tosh. Also, adjective sense is defined as if it were a noun. SemperBlotto (talk) 09:12, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please speedily delete. We are ultimately harming kids by supporting this Tumblr rubbish. Equinox ◑ 02:05, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any harm to including Tumblr neologisms. So long as they're attestable, of course. In fact I think we ought to make more of an effort to include emerging slang and neologisms. Keeping up with linguistic developments increases the utility of the wiki. That said, this doesn't seem citable, and likely never will be. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 03:19, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. To an extent I agree, and I don't want to sound as though I'm saying "exclude it because it's new": I add plenty of "new" words. However, there is some kind of fad epidemic on Tumblr of creating "-romantic" and "-sexual" orientations that have little meaning and zero usage, and I think we need to take care to distinguish such things from legitimate neologisms that people are using in real life (like "selfie" and "tweetstorm"). Equinox ◑ 05:21, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

cupiosexuality

See above. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 06:09, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

evaluativism

Rfv-sense: "(pejorative) Discrimination against evaluative diversity through segregation, prejudice, or disregard of people with differing values. "

Both of the citations verify sense 2 (the philosophical position that the difference between worldviews is too fundamental to be resolved by rational argument). This sense suggests some sort of hypernym of sexism, racism etc, which I can't find any citations of. Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your paraphrase of sense 2 is not specifically epistemic. Field clarifies that he uses the word with two senses here (you seem to be rolling them into one):

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In the realm of epistemology, evaluativism merely amounts to skepticism of others' beliefs (which is no more harmful than general skepticism), but evaluativism about morals amounts to rejecting others as members of the community of moral agents (and that creates social conflict). To call someone an evaluativist about morals is pejorative, like calling someone sexist or racist; it comes off as an accusation aimed to diminish trust in the accused.

On page 143, Field refers to a certain treatment directed at all Moonies as evaluativist. That's more than just taking a philosophical position--here the epistemic position has bled into a social behavior like religionism. Silversalt (talk) 21:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That citation doesn't provide evidence for two meanings of evaluativism. The rest of the cite makes clear it's about the use of the same philosophical tools, but in different fields of philosophy. The full quote regarding Moonies is:

in dealing with a follower of the the Reverend Moon, we may find that too little is shared for a neutral evaluation of anything to be possible, and we may have no interest in the evaluations that the Moonie gives. The fact that he gives them then provides no impetus whatever to revise our own evaluations, so the sceptical argument has no force from an evaluativist perspective.

Nothing in there suggests that evaluativist means "Person who discriminates on the basis of worldviews". Smurrayinchester (talk) 07:13, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is strongly implied that Field does not have a particular Moonie in mind, but is referring to the (then) common practice of shunning all Moonies because of the Moonie worldview. Others might refer to that practice as religionism. Silversalt (talk) 13:32, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If this fails RFV, whoever deletes it should remember to remove it from the few pages that link to it, and clean up (remove the coordinate terms section of) evaluativist. - -sche (discuss) 02:33, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
By the way, perusal of w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evaluative diversity is informative. - -sche (discuss) 02:50, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The other two citations that I thought intended to refer to evaluativism as a form of bigotry (specifically of bigotry against those who do not share our own values) were these:

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This is a relatively new technical philosophical term with few examples. We can wait to see whether additional authors use the term to refer to a form of bigotry (it is possible that some other term will be invented and used in its place). However, omitting the second sense (as though all philosophers are using only one sense) may misrepresent the term. For his part, Field seems to refer both to an objective hypothesis about the nature of disagreement, and to a moral stance on how one ought to treat various groups of people (e.g., Moonies). It is logically possible to accept the epistemic hypothesis without endorsing the moral stance. Other authors elaborate on evaluativism less, so it isn't as easy to prove that they conflate the senses, but I wouldn't be surprised if many of the citations on the citation page actually refer to evaluativism in both senses at once. Silversalt (talk) 17:51, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

baba

Rfv-sense - father. Afrokaans Wiktionary and another online dictionary only have the "baby" sense. SemperBlotto (talk) 19:53, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What is Afrokaans? ;)

Is that what Afrikaans was called in the '70s? Tharthan (talk) 22:32, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

abaxes

According to abax#Usage notes, “The plural form abaxes is currently unattested.”; if that is the case, shouldn't abaxes be deleted?
FWIW, etymology would suggest the plural forms abaces and, perhaps, abakes. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 20:19, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

exuperable

Looks like a dictionary-only word. DCDuring TALK 10:20, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I can find lots of mentions, but only one use. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 13:51, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Although I didn't find any more exuperables, I found enough inexuperables to start a page. Smurrayinchester (talk) 14:47, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think many English dictionaries went to their Latin, French, or Italian dictionaries, found words that could plausibly be turned into English words, and dispensed with finding any actual usage. I'm doing the same thing with Latin words ending in "bilis", except I'm checking for actual usage, using {{trans-see}} to send would-be translators (and others) to less rare synonyms where they exist, and extirpating the word from any definitions in favor of any less rare synonym. DCDuring TALK 17:19, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

boma

RFV of etymology 2, the "aboma" (snake) sense. - -sche (discuss) 20:38, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

stale

Etymology 5 (which was Etymology 1 until recently!), which is supposedly modern English, only has two citations - one from 1240 and one from 1340. Did this word (an early form of steal/stealth) survive into modern English, or was it already dead by 1500? Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:54, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

frictional-unemployment

Attributive form? --Type56op9 (talk) 15:25, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@User:Msh210 apparently created hundreds of these back in 2007 by more or less systematically hyphenating terms listed as noun phrases and re-entering them as adjectives. Should they be taken to RFV one-by-one? --Hekaheka (talk) 23:31, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If necessary. They're all nouns, in any case (that's the point of "attributive"!) and need to have their POS headers fixed. - -sche (discuss) 01:31, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

One of these was deleted, though it took two tries, and it was only because it was unattested: see Talk:alpine-chough Chuck Entz (talk) 02:07, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think they all need RFV but they all need fixing because they're nouns, as the definitions say. 95.144.169.113 21:06, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The hyphenated attributive form is an adjective, by my lights. But I do not know how to search for it to attest it: google books:"frictional-unemployment" returns occurrences with space instead of hyphen. Anyone has an idea of a search strategy for these hyphenated forms? --Dan Polansky (talk) 21:33, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing in BGC and the Google hits for search "frictional-unemployment" are chiefly for the unhyphenated form. Among 100 first hits there's only one hyphenated form and it is from a web dictionary which copies its content from Wiktionary. Why couldn't mass-created dubious forms be mass-deleted as easily and without consideration as they were born? --Hekaheka (talk) 11:08, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This one doesn't seem attested afaIct, and I apologize for creating these en masse without checking for cites first. They are of course plausible terms and I see no cause for deleting them en masse, but this one probably can be deleted. But maybe cites will turn up….—msh210℠ (talk) 14:52, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How about making them hard redirects en masse? DCDuring TALK 16:46, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Or let the search engine do it. Equinox ◑ 16:48, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I would speedy delete all of these mass created hyphenated forms that have zero hits on Google Ngram Viewer (GNV), which is easy to decide. frictional-unemployment has zero hits there, just like grey-heron, green-woodpecker, tectonic-uplift, abominable-snowman, abundant-number, accident-blackspot; non-zero GNV hits are found for griffon-vulture, great-tit, sandhill-crane, trumpeter-swan. Thus, I would let non-zero GNV hitters go to normal RFV, and mass delete those that have zero GNV hits. The justification for this extra-RFV measure is that they were created en masse without checking for attestation in the first place (creation visible here), that the tool used for the first filtering is reasonably lenient, and that if we RFV them one at the time, that will be really onerous because of how many they are (see the link just provided). For the speedy deleted items, editors can still place putative attesting quotations into Citations namespace, and start restoring the attested ones, if any. Note that GNV does distinguish terms with hyphens vs. those with space, unlike Google web and Google books search. See frictional-unemployment, grey-heron, green-woodpecker, tectonic-uplift, abominable-snowman, abundant-number, accident-blackspot at Google Ngram Viewer, and griffon-vulture, great-tit, sandhill-crane, trumpeter-swan at Google Ngram Viewer. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:02, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Donnanz (talk) 22:16, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

grey-heron

Attributive form? --Type56op9 (talk) 15:26, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Donnanz (talk) 22:17, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

green-woodpecker

Attributive form? --Type56op9 (talk) 15:26, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Donnanz (talk) 22:18, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

great-tit

Attributive form? --Type56op9 (talk) 15:26, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Donnanz (talk) 22:21, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

sandhill-crane

Attributive form? --Type56op9 (talk) 15:28, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Donnanz (talk) 22:22, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

tectonic-uplift

Attributive form? --Type56op9 (talk) 15:28, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Donnanz (talk) 22:24, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

trumpeter-swan

Attributive form? --Type56op9 (talk) 15:29, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Donnanz (talk) 22:25, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

malglico

All three English senses seem unlikely; Lojban borrowings are pretty rare, I should think. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 21:39, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Luckily for us, Lojbaners are pretty much the only people still using usenet besides pirates:

Noun:

I don't think we are in disagreement about anything important here, but there was no malglico involved or suggested.

Lojban is NOT encoded English, and if one gets lazy, one will not be understood (or will be intentionally misunderstood by some people who are literal-minded and don't like malglico).

If you suppose non-English speakers to be readers of the phrasebook, these malglico may be great defects.

Adjective:

Talk of our discussion transpired into #lojban. The consensus is that using tadji is wrong or malglico:

And you still haven't told me what in the statement {.i.u'icai do ze'ipu tavla fo le glibau .i di'u pe do te bangu le glibau} you consider malglico.

"ka'e" was obviously taken from "kakne", yes, but the connection is kind of malglico. Similarly "pe'i" comes from "pensi", "ti'e" from "tirna", and thare are other mnemonics that go through malglico glosses.

Given that it will only ever be used by Lojbaners, it's hard to say whether it's really English, but it's used in English grammar in English ways. Smurrayinchester (talk) 10:21, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Those are from Google Groups, not Usenet. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 21:20, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

usualarum

Latin, supposedly the Lua error in Module:links/templates at line 153: Parameter "lang" is not used by this template., except that it's not (it's ūsuālium). I've added the only Google Books result for this term to Citations:usualarum (where it occurs as „usualarum“ in a German context). — I.S.M.E.T.A. 16:42, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

abominable-snowman

Needs citations showing (a) that it exists at all, and (b) that it exists with the POS claimed, i.e. as an adjective rather than a noun. There are no instances of it in the COCA or BNC, and Google Books hits, even for compounds like "abominable(-| )snowman suit" and "abominable(-| )snowman costume", are unhyphenated. - -sche (discuss) 22:07, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is another of Msh210's 2007 creations, see #frictional-unemployment above. --Hekaheka (talk) 11:11, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Donnanz (talk) 17:37, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 15:02, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

abundant-number

Needs citations showing (a) that it exists at all, and (b) that it exists with the POS claimed, i.e. as an adjective or "adjective comparative forms" rather than a noun. There are no instances of it in the COCA or BNC, and Google Books hits, even for compounds like "abundant(-| )number sum", "abundant(-| )number factor" and "abundant(-| )number divisor", are unhyphenated or entirely nonexistent. the entry is currently badly formatted, using one thing as the POS header and a different thing on the headword-line, and containing a blank usex. - -sche (discuss) 22:07, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is another of Msh210's 2007 creations, see #frictional-unemployment above. --Hekaheka (talk) 11:12, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Donnanz (talk) 17:39, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 15:02, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

accident-blackspot

This form gets no hits in the COCA or BNC. Google Books hits, even for compounds like "accident(-| )blackspot treatment", "programmes", "locations", etc are unhyphenated, and the usex given in the entry, "accident-blackspot signage", gets no hits at all. - -sche (discuss) 22:13, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is another of Msh210's 2007 creations, see #frictional-unemployment above. --Hekaheka (talk) 11:12, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete it then. Donnanz (talk) 17:36, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

lütgern

lüttgern

--kc_kennylau (talk) 10:17, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The terms do exists, but they might be "regionalism", words limited to a region, namely (east) North Rhine-Westphalia (Verne, Salzkotten, Lippstadt &c.). Also they might be related to Low German, as they exists in a region where Low German is resp. once was spoken (some older ones can still speak Low German, younger ones often can't). -16:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

deerskin

doeskin

Adjective. Looks unlikely in both cases. Current citation are clearly nominal. 95.144.169.113 12:35, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Both are being used as noun modifiers. The adjective entries (as modifiers) should be transferred to the noun entries. Donnanz (talk) 22:29, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

composite particle

Rfv-sense: any particle that is not an elementary particle, namely hadrons, atomic nuclei, atoms and molecules. This definition is consistent with en-Wikipedia article List_of_particles#Composite_particles but not with the rest of dictionaries, which are of the opinion that this term refers to subatomic particles [66]][[67]]. The only exceptions that I could find are the dictionaries which cite Wiktionary as source, e.g. [68]. Thus, it appears to me, we should drop anything bigger than atomic nuclei from the list after the word "namely". We might also want to add an entry for composite particle board, because it is not board made of composite particles, but this is another business. --Hekaheka (talk) 16:54, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No comments within several weeks: I guess I'm right and will go ahead with editing the definition. --Hekaheka (talk) 07:43, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't agree with your thought about composite particle board (= composite + particle board). As with any MWE using polysemous components, there are multiple construals possible, eg, in displaying or tallying results of research on composite particles, one might use a composite particle + board. For that matter, combining several display boards of research on particles, the result might be a composite + particle + board. DCDuring TALK 15:37, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

kiandarua cha mbu

An old Tbot entry. The term is comprehensible, I just don't think anyone actually uses it much. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 16:21, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

abulomania

Only in dictionaries? Any attestation in use? --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:07, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

One citation here, but the text looks a bit scrambled, as if it's been automatically translated from Chinese. Nothing on Pubmed. Smurrayinchester (talk) 16:11, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ple-

Neither of the two homonymic prefixes has a single example of its use, even in the ahistorical way that we tolerate. I would like to see some evidence that this has been used productively in English. DCDuring TALK 17:30, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Special:WhatLinksHere/ple- gets none. Renard Migrant (talk) 20:47, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

educated guess

Rfv-sense "wild guess". --Is this common enough to merit inclusion? I mean, we should not record every flippant usage that has ever occurred. --Hekaheka (talk) 05:27, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Probably delete but will see how the discussion goes. Move to RFD. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:28, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I would position educated guess and wild guess as almost opposites: while both are guesses, one is based on the guesser's past experience and wisdom, and the other is, as it even says in the term itself, wild and not based on much of anything. So listing one as a definition of the other can only be an error. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 15:27, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is really an RFD matter. Sarcastic usage shouldn't be included unless it overwhelmingly dominates straight usage (thanks a bunch, Sherlock). See WT:RFD#Einstein, talk:thanks a lot, talk:touché and talk:James Bond for examples of RFD debates on sarcastic or ironic terms. Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:50, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As it happens, I am currently drafting the Wikipedia article on guessing (hard to believe that there is none after all this time), at w:Draft:Guess. These terms are included in it. bd2412 T 16:02, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete it. A great number of phrases are used in a tongue-in-cheek manner, diverting from the proper sense. Donnanz (talk) 19:55, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

chave alien

— Ungoliant ^(falai) 15:50, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

sonder

English entry. Looks like tosh to me. SemperBlotto (talk) 17:13, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

p.s. The current "definition" is a word-for-word copyvio of the entry at [69]. SemperBlotto (talk) 17:35, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

People have been googling the definition: http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=sonder#q=%22sonder+definition%22&cmpt=q

It was listed in this buzzfeed article and other places - it does not have a form10:31, 2015 March 12‎ Heypanoal dictionary entry though http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/bob-ombinate#.adkGedG2EV — This unsigned comment was added by Heypano (talk • contribs) at 10:31, 2015 March 12‎.

Cited. Also rewrote the definition to be more concise and less copyright-infringing. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 20:24, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Are there any more etymological details available than "coined by some guy"? What was the coinage based on, if anything? Is this in any way related to German sonder? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 16:43, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is it perhaps a Lua error in Module:languages/errorGetBy at line 16: Please specify a language or etymology language code in the first parameter; the value "sorrow" is not valid (see Wiktionary:List of languages).? Leasnam (talk) 05:51, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

tokimeku

This is listed as an English verb, but so far I can only find it in cases where the author is clearly using it as a foreign term (it's in italics with a gloss or explanation immediately provided). I also cannot find any instances of this conjugated along English lines, such as google:"tokimekued" (zero hits) or google:"tokimekus" (two hits on Twitter, dupes, and apparently intended to be tokimeku's as the possessive of the noun, used as the name of a word).

Citations? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 19:51, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

n

Please verify n#German. That looks wrong and retarded. Maybe cf. [www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/_n], [www.duden.de/sprachwissen/rechtschreibregeln/apostroph#K14].

French-Provençal

One citation, which I suspect might be the result of a bad translation. I've never heard Franco-Provençal called this. All the citations I can find use the term as an adjective meaning ‘from Provence in France’, and the hyphenated form as far as I can tell only occurs in the context of (bilingual) ‘French-Provençal’ dictionaries. Anyone familiar with it? Ƿidsiþ 11:28, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

French-Provençal is a morpheme-by-morpheme loan-translation of a foreign word (Franco-Provençal) in correctly English. I think we shouldn't consider it as a "bad translation", but as a rare form well conforming with accepted standards of the English language. The hyphen excludes the adjective meaning (‘from Provence in France’), to give the word his own sense. Meanwhile, the alternative form Franco-Provençal (foreign word) is a loanword, directly taken into the English language from French with no translation. Auvé73 (talk) 13:30, 13 March 2015 (UTC).[reply]

We can find here on this page a serious article saying: "(...) a linguistic challenge and a cultural operation, as an attempt to test and show all the expressive potential of his French-Provençal". On the more popular platforms, I found this page, where a traveler talks about "(..) an old French Provencal language known as Arpitan.", and this student explains that "(...) Standard French and Arpitan (French-Provencal) are spoken (...)", while a member of this forum tells us that "The French Provencal language (francoprovencal, arpitan, patois) is thought to have originated there and the area contains the largest numbers of speakers of this language". However, the words French-Provençal and Franco-Provençal seems very artificial and misleading, that why the synonym Arpitan seems to be more used nowadays on the internet... Auvé73 (talk) 13:38, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Meh. ‘Franco-Provençal’ is not taken from French, the language name was coined by GI Ascoli (francoprovenzale) and English borrowed it from there. Franco- is a perfectly normal English prefix. Your citations are a bit tepid – the first two are clearly translated, apparently by non-native speakers, the third is from someone completely unfamiliar with the language, the fourth…I guess it's OK…but one cite from an online forum…it's all a bit weak. No published citations? Nothing on Google Books? Ƿidsiþ 16:19, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

half sibling-in-law

From Pass a Method. I see nothing usable for singular or plural in Google Books or Groups. Equinox ◑ 13:22, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It appears in the US census data (185 people were recorded as "step/half sibling-in-law" in 1880, for instance). It also appears in the fine print of a few brochures for health insurance plans (eg "For purposes of this provision, “immediate family” means parents, spouse, children, siblings, half-siblings, parent-in-law, child-in-law, sibling-in-law, half-sibling-in-law, or any relative by blood or marriage who shares a residence with you."), but I don't know how durably archived they are. Neither makes clear which of the definitions is meant, of course. Smurrayinchester (talk) 16:49, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

diet

I doubt that this is a true adjective, but could be convinced by evidence to the contrary. DCDuring TALK 16:10, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What do you think of these: [70], [71], [72]? — Ungoliant ^(falai) 16:16, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought, the specific adjectival meaning is not obviously the same as any of the clearly appropriate noun senses. Credit is due to Purp for noticing. Obviously the adjective use is derived from one of the noun senses. It seems a bit a stretch in real life to interpret diet in diet soda as soda for "a controlled dietary regimen".

Some, at least, of the predicate uses confirm this or provide additional support, though capitalized "Diet" in quotes doesn't. DCDuring TALK 16:32, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If it's a noun, what's its meaning? There's no noun sense for 'low in sugar or fat'. Renard Migrant (talk) 20:40, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly my second thought. DCDuring TALK 01:24, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So this is being withdrawn, right? Renard Migrant (talk) 12:15, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I left it here to see if anyone agreed with my first thought. Evidently not. DCDuring TALK 23:34, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note that three quotations are now in the entry diet, for phrases "diet hamburger" and "diet drink". Among OneLook dictionaries (“diet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.), adjective for "diet" is in Merriam-Webster[73], which has actually two adjectival senses. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:46, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I did point out to PBP (in the Diet Coke RFD) that it's really a noun modifier. The adjective could quite easily be transferred to the noun as a separate sense and marked as such. Donnanz (talk) 22:37, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

bunya

Rfv-sense: AFAICT, this is a rare (in print anyway) slur on the bunya/banyan caste of traders. As such it seems SoP in the single independent use I found at Google Books. DCDuring TALK 21:06, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To be clear, you're referring to the term bunya spider used as the entre definition for the sense in question, not the term bunya itself. Google Books has only a single usage for that phrase in different editions and as quoted directly in another work. It looks to me like a one-off metaphorical turn of phrase. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:54, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing for the phrase in Google Groups, at all. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

aalmoezenierskamertje

Dutch would-be diminutive. Since diminutives are not inflected forms, they need attestation as words in their own right, IMHO. --Dan Polansky (talk) 14:47, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Diminutives are inflected forms in Dutch. Every word can have one, it's fully productive and fully predictable what the diminutive of a given word is. —CodeCa t 14:56, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Every English adjective can in principle have a -ness form, but some -ness forms are unattested and we don't include them. The fact that a morphological derivation process is very regular and predictable does not make it an inflection process. Diminutives are not inflected forms even in Dutch; rather, diminutives themselves are inflected in Dutch. --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:02, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dutch Wiktionary includes diminutives in noun inflection tables. —CodeCa t 15:10, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Which is a rather dubious practice. Is this a tradition in Dutch dictionaries? --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:12, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Why is it a rather dubious practice? —CodeCa t 15:14, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is a dubious practice because they are not inflected forms. They are not inflected forms because they are themselves inflected. Is it a tradition of Dutch dictionaries to present diminutives as inflected forms? --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:23, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You haven't yet established that diminutives are not inflected forms in Dutch. In fact I'm not sure you really know enough about Dutch to judge it. Being inflected themselves is not an argument, compare participles. —CodeCa t 15:25, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) It's possible for inflected forms to be inflected themselves. Latin superlatives (e.g., pravissimus) and Esperanto participles (e.g., manĝanta), for example, are inflected forms that can themselves be inflected. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 15:28, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The term that has been used for these on Wiktionary is "sublemma". They are lemmas in some ways, like having inflections, but are themselves inflections of another lemma. —CodeCa t 15:32, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ (after edit conflict) It is true that some forms considered by some to be inflected forms can be further inflected. Nonetheless, I would argue that if a form is further inflected, one must present a strong argument for it being an inflected form. Your argument was regularity and productiveness, but these two characteristics cannot serve to distinguish derivational process from inflection; derivational processes are often regular and productive as well. Then I would ask for the third time, is this a tradition in Dutch dictionaries? Can you point me to at least one online Dutch dictionary containing Dutch definitions, so I can check what their practice is?

One more thing. Comparatives and superlatives are forms that can be inflected, and that some might consider to be inflected forms nonetheless. But for these, our practice is to require attestation. I submit that even if diminutives can be seen as some sort of quasi-inflected forms, they should be subject to attestation requirements. --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:41, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I can't help noticing that CodeCat is a native speaker of Dutch, whereas Dan Polansky isn't. Are these diminutives confined to the Netherlands, or they used in Flemish as well? I may be able to find out if I manage to get to Belgium this summer. Donnanz (talk) 12:21, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a native English speaker and we've deleted English inflected forms before because they don't exist. Renard Migrant (talk) 20:42, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As the creator of this page and thousands of other diminutive Dutch nouns I can mention that most of these words are not in any dictionary for the simple reason that it would make the dictionaries very large. For the same reason many compound words are not in Dutch dictionaries but they are used. Diminutives in Dutch are "made", inflected if you like by the Dutch speakers themselves. Probably nobody ever used the word "aalmoezenierskamertje" but it can be "made": my idea of these words is that if someone would make a small scale model of a military base, the room the chaplain would be in would be called "aalmoezenierskamertje" because it is a small version of "aalmoezenierskamer". The WNT has a section about "the making"of Dutch diminutives, therefore they can exist. I am, as CodeCat is, a native speaker of Dutch. --DrJos (talk) 12:25, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's an excellent explanation as to why this should be nominated for RFV. I'm not sure you intended to do that, but thank you anyway. Renard Migrant (talk) 12:36, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, the Flemish use the same diminutives although sometimes they end with "-ke" of "-ken", like the word "manneken", little man, the origin of the word "mannequin". --DrJos (talk) 12:29, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that answer about Flemish usage. Dictionaries, as I'm well aware with Norwegian, don't contain every word that's in use, and I sometimes wonder whether some words are used more in the oral form than in the written form, especially regarding inflections. Donnanz (talk) 17:33, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@DrJos: Is there any monolingual Dutch dictionary online where I can see Dutch definitions for Dutch words? Or is there at least one in Google books that you can recommend? --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:36, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Here is Van Dale’s Great Dictionary of the Dutch Language. —Stephen ^(Talk) 07:43, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

aandeelhoudstertje

Dutch diminutive. Appears unattested. --Dan Polansky (talk) 14:48, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

loló

English? SemperBlotto (talk) 08:29, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I can't tell. It seems to be partially composed of Chloroethane (mentioned in 5th paragraph) among other ingredients and production methods. This article uses the word right along. Beyond that, perhaps it is English? I also bet the Portuguese word is a shortening of lança(-perfume). —John C5 08:53, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

causate

The only examples I can find of this term as a verb are in Italian. — This unsigned comment was added by Kiwima (talk • contribs).

I am unable to find unambiguous citations of the challenged (intransitive) sense, but there are numerous transitive citations on Google Books, so I have added a transitive sense with three citations. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 19:07, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is e.g. "the central causating power" transitive? Equinox ◑ 19:40, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It seems ambiguous to me—as far as I know, both transitive and intransitive verbs can be used that way. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 19:48, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

chink in the armor

I'm sure it's OK, but the contributor forgot about, or ignored, the British spelling armour. Is there another way of expressing it, e.g. chink in one's armour? Donnanz (talk) 23:06, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes, if we are diligent, we add one redirect for each common variant. In this case it would be the possessive pronouns in place of the. In this case it is not just possessive pronouns that could fit in that slot but the possessives of many nouns, proper and common, but we think users can manage that. Whether the lemma form has one's or the doesn't matter that much — if we are diligent. DCDuring TALK 23:24, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's getting Google Book hits. What's being disputed here? Nominator says "I'm sure it's OK". Renard Migrant (talk) 20:46, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

With mods to the entry I'm now satisfied. I will leave it a week to see if any further comments are forthcoming before withdrawing the RFV. Donnanz (talk) 00:13, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

chink(s) in ... armor gets 92 hits at COCA. 37 use the. The rest use a possessive of a nominal, ie, more than half. At the very least we should have redirects from forms using all the possessive personal pronouns and a usage note. DCDuring TALK 01:39, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The contributor is now permanently banned for persistently making dodgy entries, so this must have been one of the better entries made. By the way, Oxford has "a chink in someone's armour". Donnanz (talk) 10:41, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do we have a Google Books Ngrams template yet? Ngrams has plenty of hits for it, and less for "chink in one's armo(u)r" (but still some). Renard Migrant (talk) 12:22, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@User:Renard Migrant: {{R:GNV}}. --Dan Polansky (talk) 05:53, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

-chama

English entry added by an anon, possibly our old friend who's been obsessed with Japanese entries.

I can't find any evidence of this in English. I find surnames, and Portuguese. I wouldn't be surprised if this is used in subcultures, but is it used anywhere that meets CFI? I can't tell. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 00:24, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Let's see: adds an asteroid-name sense to an entry for a supernatural being, adds genealogical cruft to another one, and has trouble keeping straight whether a sense belongs in the Japanese or the English section (I would be astounded if the "(childish) honorific suffix" sense is actually English)... who needs to look at the geolocation data? This is our wiki-problem child, in spades (and the IP does geolocate to Easynet in the UK, anyway). Chuck Entz (talk) 01:38, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ἀφαιρετική

RFV noun sense: the reference given is to a book that doesn't give any citation, and may well be calquing the term from Latin. ObsequiousNewt (ἔβαζα|ἐτλέλεσα) 01:56, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not to mention that it's a 1770 German book on Latin by a Jesuit named Manuel Alvarez (title page here), in an Appendix whose first page says it's mostly compiled from a 1606 work by another Jesuit named w:Jacob Gretser (title page here). Comparing the page referenced with the corresponding page in Gretser's book, it becomes apparent that Gretser doesn't give a term for the ablative case (not surprising, since Greek doesn't have an ablative case), so Alvarez probably made it up to avoid a gap in his table. Also, both Ancient and Modern Greek were written with the same script in those days, so we can't even be sure which of those two we're dealing with. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:43, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, LSJ doesn't have this term, but it does have ἀποκομιστικός with the definition of "ablativus". Chuck Entz (talk) 07:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

πύλη gives  Entry #1 seems to say that "αφαιρετική" comes from the Hellenistic "ἀφαιρετική" which is a substantivisation of the Hellenistic adjective "ἀφαιρετικός" a calque (?loan) from the Latin ablativus.  Entry #2 seems to say something similar.
My two Greek dictionaries give no etymology. I'm a long way from being an etymologist and my translations of etyms in Greek always worry me - Do I understand what they've written! — Saltmarsh^{συζήτηση-talk} 09:46, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That helps. It would seem that ObsequiousNewt was correct about it being a calque, but 4th century is definitely well within what we consider to be Ancient Greek. Since Ancient Greek isn't a WDL, that would be enough to verify the term for Ancient Greek, if we accept the source(s). Are they from durably archived works, or are they onine databases only? Chuck Entz (talk) 12:20, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"I think" the entries are based on the Dictionary of Common Modern Greek Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής (viewable in English) — Saltmarsh^{συζήτηση-talk} 16:17, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Two (2) sources were given, not just the older German book. The terms in the book could be made up (as mentioned above), even though most grammar terms in it can be found in other sources as well (like dictionaries, (non-Greek) grammar books, translations of Greek books, Greek books like Dionysius Thrax' Tekhne Grammatike). The other source is "DGE (Span., included in logeion.uchicago.edu)", that is Diccionario Griego-Español (Greek–Spanish Dictionary; wp: [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diccionario_Griego-Espa%C3%B1ol]). In DGE it is: "2 gram. ablativo πτῶσις Dosith.392, cf. Gloss.2.252.". gram. stands for (or should stand for) gramática, grammar; ablativo is Spanish for [casus] ablativus, ablative [case]; πτῶσις is Greek for casus, (grammatical) case. -- 02:23-02:38, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

DGE cites Dositheus, page 392, who names all six cases (and the two given names for the ablative.) LSJ has entries for the other five, but doesn't cite Dositheus for any of them—the citations seem to be limited to a baker's dozen translations of Latin words. ObsequiousNewt (ἔβαζα|ἐτλέλεσα) 16:58, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

sister act

—Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:11, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You know perfectly Well our best bet is to come on like a sister act. We play it like we're into threesomes p160 "The Mangler of Malibu Canyon" Jennifer Colt (2006) Crown Publishing ISBN 9780767923910
I did briefly think of them as candidates for a sister act in a ménage a trois. p229 "The Life and Times of Harry Broadtape" John Johnson (2006) Lulu ISBN 9781411688353
It was suggested that, perhaps, the two would give some consideration to performing a sister act, a la menage a trois. A flat, "no," was their answer. p340 "Our Father: Recollections of a Small Town Boy" Joseph Brucato (2003) Universe ISBN 9780595269310
Picket Fences (episode 0) "Pilot" (18 September 1992) aired on CBS Television
RedHotPie(Australia) Sister Act

-- 65.94.43.89 07:44, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

golden spike

Rfv-sense for the metaphorical usage "finishing touch; the final effort leading to a completed project, such as putting in the last nail". It seems reasonable, but I'm not sure how to search for it. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:21, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Golden spike on Wikipedia.Wikipedia This is the one I know about. Donnanz (talk) 09:59, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The only figurative use in this century AFAICT from Google Books is in stratigraphy, where it refers to a designation of a given stratigraphic layer in a formation as the marker for the start of a geological time period [as the unchallenged definition says. d'oh]. Last spike is apparently used more commonly in railroad construction. DCDuring TALK 14:36, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Google News brings up a handful of results (1, 2, 3, 4), but it's not tremendously common. Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:03, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ababa

(Portuguese) Only occurs as part of Addis Ababa, Adis-Ababa, Addis-Ababa. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 11:24, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks unlikely since Addis Ababa is Adis Abeba in Portuguese. --Hekaheka (talk) 14:01, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alvíssmál

Portuguese. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 12:54, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

spierversterken

This word is not a single word unlike spierversterking which is. Where is the source? --DrJos (talk) 22:38, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

google books:"spierversterken". Yup. Renard Migrant (talk) 12:34, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Move to rfv though as both the noun and the verb need attesting. Renard Migrant (talk) 13:33, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Moved to RFV, per the suggestion above. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:02, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
While this seems attested, it has the properties of a defective verb. Some verbs in Dutch only appear as non-finite forms, perhaps even just the infinitive. Are there any cases of this being used as a "real" verb, or is it only the gerund? —CodeCa t 22:25, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

schrinken

This is not in the WNT nor in Van Dale's dictionary. Does it exist? --DrJos (talk) 22:40, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In dictionaries it definitely does [74]. Not sure about usage as in use-mention distinction as I don't understand enough Dutch. Oh and should be at WT:RFV#schrinken. Renard Migrant (talk) 12:32, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Moved to RFV, per the suggestion above. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:02, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This might be Middle Dutch... Leasnam (talk) 23:31, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

elative

Please verify the etymology. The masculine gender (in other languaes) implies that it comes from gradus elativus, elativus [substantivated participle; gender: sc. gradus] or elativus (-a, -um) [participle]. -08:36, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

molycirc

A kind of sci-fi device. I think this only appears in the Empire of Man series by David Weber and John Ringo, thus might fail WT:FICTION. Equinox ◑ 15:02, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Here’s one use independent from Empire of Man: [75]. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 15:17, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It definitely does not only appear in Empire of Man

[76] Dawn of the Molycirc - 2007 forum post - The molycirc, or molecular circut would allow an electronic device the size of a modern desktop computer to be reproduced on somethign smaller than a postage stamp. This is potentially huge
[77] Tattered Skies - Part one : "No we don't, Hamilton." I said, sighing and pushing a hand back through my hair. "We've been over this. I deal with your shit because you don't fuck with mine, and this has always gone smoothly, but your little playboy bunny here has lost half her secondary logic array, how I don't feel like asking because I happen to believe it has something to do with one of your odd fetishes, and that's molycirc, Hamilton, even I don't have that much blank molycirc template laying around." Kenny Casperson (2008) creative writing forum post
[78] MT-J1-E3500 Molycirc Computer Core (2013) Role-Playing Game - community developed RPG
[79] While approaching the solar system Captain Madlax is from, my navigation molycirc fried. "Sholan Alliance - AU" -- Wattpad creative writing site
[80] Many molycirc blocks were actually taken from the PlayStation IX VR system, with coding available on VirtuaNet, and gave the analyst teams no clue as to the helmet's origins. (2007) community-based RPG
[81] “They ripped out the molycircs along with the initiator plugs this time.” Cor reported. Santee glared into the opened panel before him. (2006) Star Wars fanfic forum posting
[82] and now we have the molycirc s that so much 80's scifi promised as the future of computing. awesome. (2012) -- Gizmag comments section posting
Something deep within his molycirc heart seemed to be beating against the confining cage of his chest's synthetic composites p105 "A Might Fortress" David Weber (2010) ISBN 9781429961356 -- this is not "Empire of Man", this is "Safefold"-series
Another three keystrokes and that portion of the Department of State's molycirc memory core where those notes had been stored was reformatted ch54 "War of Honor" David Weber (2002) ISBN 9780743435451 -- this is not "Empire of Man", this is "Honorverse"-series
The molycirc shouldn't be possible in this universe. p176 "Claws that Catch" (2008) John Ringo & Travis Taylor ISBN 9781416555872 -- this is not "Empire of Man", this is "Looking Glass"-series

-- 65.94.43.89 15:39, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

legitime

Rfv-sense - noun sense. Lewis and Charles only gives the adverb. Needs formatting as a noun if OK. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:33, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

http://micmap.org/dicfro/search/gaffiot/legitime only has 'in a way that conforms to the law(s)'. No noun sense. Renard Migrant (talk) 12:16, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Before I decided to put the "law" definition of the word, I'm really not sure what part of speech it is... I just thought it is likely a noun coz it is a specific thing... This word just got stuck in my head as I'm a former law student studying civil law and I'm actually surprised that there is no definition about it here on wikt... But if you guys think the definition does not make sense, feel free to remove it... CHEERS! =) Alcohkid (talk) 14:43, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This term is English, I encounter it while studying a profession in English language... cheers! =) Alcohkid (talk) 03:47, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I see some Google Books hits for "the legitimes" (i.e. a plural). Equinox ◑ 11:51, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hogvartensis

Needs to meet the fictional-universe part of CFI, but it looks like a clearcut case of a strictly in-universe term. This is modern Latin, so there should be three independent cites. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:09, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In terms of rules, Latin isn't listed on Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion/Well documented languages. Renard Migrant (talk) 11:09, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the past, we have (at least sometimes) required three quotations for modern Latin. See Talk:birotula for one such discussion. Maybe we should modify WT:WDL to reflect this. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 12:12, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No objections from me! Renard Migrant (talk) 12:22, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

huus

This might not be the right place for this request.

At huus#Dutch_Low_Saxon someone claims that "huus" and "hoes" would be alternative spellings. That's untrue, the pronunciations differ. Most people speaking (or at least understanding) Plat would know that. Anyone studying the language(s) would know Heeroma's "Hollandic expansion" theory which is based on that (online I found the link http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_voo004199501_01/_voo004199501_01_0005.php, not Heeroma himself, but a stable link with an English summary). --80.114.178.7 01:42, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The header over the link to hoes is "Alternative forms" (not e.g. "Alternative spellings", which isn't a standard header anywhere, anyway, even when the only difference is spelling/orthography). Alternative forms may or may not have the same pronunciation; see e.g. epizootic and grievous. Where is it being claimed that huus and hoes have the same pronunciation? (The usage note? I assume it's contrasting other orthographies/variants like hus / hūs / etc. But it could be changed to form for clarity.) - -sche (discuss) 03:57, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(Yes, the usage note). I don't think anyone would write hus (the vowel is long). I don't know an orthography which uses hūs (but I don't even know one orthography well enough to write Low Saxon). As I understand it, Veluws huus and Sallaands huus might look and sound the same, but they have different etymologies. Veluws regularly has the umlaut oe → uu, but Sallaands hasn't (well, it has umlaut for diminutives and plurals), so huus can only be a loanword from Dutch.

If someone from Twente (outside Vriezenveen) would write huus, they probably also write muus (or one of their parents is from a region saying huus). The "German" use of "uu"/"üü" is better suited for Sallaands and Twents than "Dutch" "oe"/"uu", but almost everyone speaker of Dutch Low German has already learned Dutch spelling conventions. --80.114.178.7 07:18, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are correct, this isn't the right place to raise this. Renard Migrant (talk) 11:02, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

strijderin

Dutch would-be word defined to mean female warrior. I request attesting quotations meeting WT:ATTEST; for newbies: links to dictionaries do not count as attesting quotations. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:43, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

google books:strijderin gets a fair number of hits, but I don't read Dutch well enough to know if any of them are scannos for strijder in or if those that aren't scannos actually mean "female warrior". —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 11:04, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- A more tight search is google books:"strijderin", with quotation marks. I did use this search, and I did click on a couple of the found items to see the scans, to find nothing that looks like an attesting quotations. --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:13, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I found a quotation at http://www.maroc.nl/forums/wie-schrijft-blijft/167041-k%E9nk%E9r.html#post2496103

Ey, ik ben ook een Berber strijderin hoor. Net als mijn baasje.

and durably archived it.

Maybe it isn't a would-be word and it has just been on a long vacation. I found two mentions which seems to indicatie earlier uses (possible so early that we consider them Middle Dutch):

Ernst Zeydelaar (1781) mentions it "[...] Vaderin (voor Moeder) Gemalin, Strijderin, Gezellin en Gezelle, Verleiderin voor Verleidster, [...]" and doesn't feel the need to explain the meaning.
Barthold H. Lulofs, Arie de Jager (1857) "[...] het thans wat Hoogduitschachtig schijnende lezerIN bezigt, gelijk men (volgens HUYDEKOPER) oudtijds zelfs heilandin, tirannin, strijderin, besluiterin, rechterin, apostelin enz. bezigde."

Unfortunately, google books:"ftryderin" gives only a scanno for ſtryder in. --80.114.178.7 01:38, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And it's too old, see http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/huyd001proe01_01/huyd001proe01_01_0012.php page 306

de Schryver van den Gulden Troen 1386. als fol. 6. c. Biecht is - een striderinne tegens den bosen geest, een besluterinne der hellen.

I'm not sure whether 1386 is the year, http://gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?wdb=MNW&actie=article&uitvoer=HTML&id=55824 gives

Biecht is een striderinne tegens den bosen geest, Gulden Troon 7c., Holland, 1484

Anyway, 1484 is also too early. --80.114.178.7 03:18, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Based on the citations above, the entry should be converted to ==Middle Dutch==. - -sche (discuss) 23:44, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It should also be moved. The Middle Dutch form is striderinne. —CodeCa t 00:04, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV-failed as modern Dutch; moved to striderinne and converted to Middle Dutch. - -sche (discuss) 22:09, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lolol

Portuguese. I also recommend that Italian and Dutch editors investigate the existence of the word in Italian and Dutch. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 22:36, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The whole page is entirely the work of the contributor who created the Old English lemma for Picelemu- I wouldn't trust anything on it. The Mapudungan entry at lolol looks pretty questionable, too. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:57, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If Dutch and Italian people don't call it Lolol, then what do they call it? —CodeCa t 01:00, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe they don’t call it anything. It is a tiny faraway city. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 01:04, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your comment is disgusting, [[Mr. First World. --Diego Grez (talk) 23:42, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I’m from the third world, Mr Completely Obsessed With His Own City. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 13:12, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It does have an entry in the Italian Wikipedia. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:10, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This might be my new favourite word. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:59, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bharat Army

Needs attestation —umbreon1 2 6 02:15, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the following as quotations.

2003 Bharat Army's friendly fire puts English originals in the shade

The Bharat Army believe there is nothing to apologise for. What they represent is a confluence of cultures.

2013 Reasons behind booing of Moeen Ali at Edgbaston but why England all-rounder will not let distractions affect focus

...his first taste of the verbal brickbats wielded by India's "Bharat Army" of supporters.

2015 World Cup Semifinal: Top Five Reasons Why India Can 'Stun' Aussies in Their Own Backyard

Australia may be the host team in Sydney but it won't surprise any if the local fans are outnumbered by the Bharat Army

--KTo288 (talk) 23:13, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@KTo288 Are those all durably archived? That is, for something like the third citation, was that ever on a printed page or only online? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:18, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Metaknowledge, sorry, I don't know.-- KTo288 (talk) 14:52, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Filastinian

The first citation looks like an adjective and the second two citations don't look like English uses. See also the previous RFC. - -sche (discuss) 02:33, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your analyses. Renard Migrant (talk) 19:00, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Filastini

Compare the RFV above, and the RFC discussion of this term. - -sche (discuss) 02:38, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

tlatus

Old Latin which appears to be unattested. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 18:42, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If I recall correctly, this form is mentioned in Wheelock's Latin, but I don't know whether they give it as an unattested reconstruction or just rare and archaic, and I don't have the book handy to check. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 18:52, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lewis & Short, the Oxford Latin Dictionary and Sihler's New Comparative Grammar all treat the forms starting with tlat- as unattested reconstructions. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 19:32, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Angr But stlatus is attested in epigraphy, right? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:40, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know; I only looked up the past participle of fero, not the word for "wide". —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 20:13, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perseus' copy of Lewis and Short has "sterno, strāvi, strātum, 3 […] cf.: strages, struo, torus, and lātus, adj., old Lat. stlatus, to spread out, spread abroad; to stretch out, extend". Wallace Martin Lindsay's Short Historical Latin Grammar marks tlatus with an asterisk as a reconstruction, but does not so mark stlatus; it says the derived term stlattarius was used by Juvenal. - -sche (discuss) 21:16, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Then it's probably fine. I wanted to check because it was also created by this user who flooded us with unattested entries that I speedied en masse. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 03:08, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We now treat Old Latin as its own language, owing to the significant differences between classical and pre-classical Latin. Is this attested in Latin or Old Latin? —CodeCa t 03:19, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Xenozoic

Doesn't seem to pass WT:FICTION, but it's worth a check. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 18:45, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

safario

Some suspect Esperanto. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:39, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I can find exactly two citations: Iuj stranguloj en mia cirklo simple ne ricevos lokon - se ne temas hazarde pri iu ekzotika dekora danctrupo dum ies feriaj vojaĝoj dum safario. Kvarmil kvincent kilometrojn norden de Durbano mi devis veturi por fari mian safarion en Tanzanio. There's also one use of "Safario" to refer to the web browser. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 19:50, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

askari

Rfv-sense "foreigner serving another country". The real test is whether cites can be found that do not fall under sense 1, which is the only one that I see attested. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:50, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

positivism

Rfv-sense: "Practical spirit, sense of reality, concreteness." What does this even mean? ---> Tooironic (talk) 08:44, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Realism/pragmatism? Renard Migrant (talk) 12:38, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing it's the opposite of the equally psychobabbly sense of negativism. DCDuring TALK 14:39, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

zenana

RFV of the last two senses. Each has one citation discussing how a term* is used in Arabic. *(Presumably the term they discuss is the Arabic etymon of zenana, but neither citation actually uses zenana or its Arabic etymon at all.) - -sche (discuss) 20:39, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I can't be of much help the two uses were dictionary definitions I transwikied from w:Zenana if its the actual quotation that is giving you problems, sorry for the badly formed quotation,I don't edit here enough to know how to do it properly do it, an URL is embedded in the quote, but here it is in full

In Gaza, lives shaped by drones The Washington Post

"Then, pointing to the sky, one muttered, “Zenana, zenana.” The word is the Arabic term that Gazans have given to Israel’s drone aircraft, a ubiquitous and frightening feature of daily life in this crowded strip of land along the sea. Roughly translated, zenana means buzz. But in neighboring Egypt, a source of Gaza custom and culture, the term is slang used to describe a relentlessly nagging wife."

I've had a look for the use of this word in this context using google and the results are thin, either this Aljazeera one which is by the same author as the Washington Post piece, or ones like this

Gaza: Life beneath the drones International Solidarity Movement

"Nicknameed [sic] ‘zenana’by Palestinians because of their noisy buzzing, the drones (remote control aircraft) are omnipresent."

which appear to be paraphrasing Cook, the author of the Washington Post and Aljazeera pieces.--KTo288 (talk) 18:32, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Had a go at improving the quotations used in the entry, hope this has helped.--KTo288 (talk) 18:50, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've been lurking on this page waiting for responses to this one, and I think I understand the process here a bit better now. From what I've found via search engines, zenana isn't attested as being in use for the two senses I've added, in that no where could I find the use of zenana being used in place of the words drone or nag; all of it is much of the same as the article, telling us that's how it is used by Palestinians. Looking for it in Arabic is outside of my competence. Time for me to stop lurking and leave this to someone else now.--KTo288 (talk) 11:16, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

xenopaleontology

Funny, I clean forgot to RFV this one. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 04:50, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Found two good citations; anyone got a third? Created by a known bad-entry-maker, though. Equinox ◑ 04:57, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Found another one, and one for xenopalaeontology. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 05:20, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

An American spelling, if it's worth recording that. Donnanz (talk) 18:11, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

foresketchy

Hmm? Equinox ◑ 04:53, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This was taken from Century Dictionary, following their entry for foresketch. As I am rather wont to do, I go through the dictionaries word by word in order, so it got added. Yet, I too cannot seem to find anywhere (at least on Google Books) where this is actually used...double Hmm. Leasnam (talk) 05:17, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

umshade

Not much on Google Books. If it's cited it should almost certainly be tagged "rare" or "obsolete". This, that and the other (talk) 10:47, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Someone added two cites: the first, I am certain, is not actually from 1975; the phrase is present in a critical analysis of some kind of play, the exact nature of which I can't determine. The second may be accurate, although it could just as well be a typo for "unshaded". This, that and the other (talk) 06:36, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first cite is in the OED and listed as circa 1500. The OED also lists 3 other cites, all of which are circa 1300. I do no believe this exists in modern English. —John C5 06:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The second cite is indeed a typo of "unshaded." -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 00:06, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

lolol

Seems spurious. What is a "land of crabs and holes" anyway? See also #Lolol above. This, that and the other (talk) 10:53, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Probably a mudbank at low tide. Donnanz (talk) 14:46, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

boomsmash

Nothing obvious on a quick Google book search. SemperBlotto (talk) 16:35, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ambilogism

Protologism? SemperBlotto (talk) 16:37, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Accepting the definition as given, is the usage example even a true proposition? DCDuring TALK 16:41, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No. Totally false. (Note: This will probably be a self-defining word if it passes.) SemperBlotto (talk) 16:44, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This gets only three hits on Google: one for this page, two for the same blog. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 00:14, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Schrankschande

Is this attested? We currently have it as an English entry with the definition "An item of possession that embarrasses the owner and cannot be easily discarded. Schrankschanden are often of inferior quality"; is this attested in use per WT:ATTEST in any language at all? See also lowercase schrankschande and the RFV of it at Talk:schrankschande. --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:31, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Luo orutu

Nah. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:56, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The string "Luo orutu" occurs several times in the Google Books corpus, but I think it is a sum-of-parts combination of "Luo" and "orutu". —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 15:09, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just realised I posted this in RFV instead of RFD. I don't reckon it's worth the trouble of starting the process again, though (translation: can we please just delete the damn thing already). —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 00:58, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

google books:"Luo orutu" find me this:

2005, Anri Herbst, Emerging Solutions for Musical Arts Education in Africa[83]:
The outstanding Luo orutu composers were acclaimed for their works and performances.

DP Note: orutu is in italics in the original.

? [84]
The outstanding Luo orutu composers were recognized through their works and performances.

DP Note: I don't know the author; maybe it is just a quoted English passage. The work title does not seem English. And the quote may be not independent of the first one.

Furthermore, the term indeed seems to be a sum of parts, as pointed out by Mr. Granger. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:38, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

pinxit

Rfv-sense- Supposedly English. SemperBlotto (talk) 14:30, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

More than three citations of this word can be found on Google Books. [85] [86] [87] [88] [89] It usually seems to come in quotation marks or otherwise set off from the rest of the text, though, so I'm not sure whether it is really an English sense distinct from the Latin sense. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 15:05, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Latin sense is a verb, and the English sense is a noun. This should be sufficient. See What talent! This pinxit is remarkable! and Glance your eye down to the pinxit in the corner. Also, it is used as a countable noun: Made herself acquainted with all the Stephanoff pinxits. In all these senses, none of them approach the Latin words for "painted by" or "painter". Instead, they clearly specifically to the PINXIT mark on the painting, OR to paintings which have this mark. --Pnelsonmusic (talk) 15:30, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We haven't defined it as a noun yet. As a multilingual dictionary we can include such words under the appropriate language header of the original language, so we don;t lose the content, though some ordinary users (especially of tabbed languages) and repackagers of our English content may miss this kind of thing.

Even if we decide that the use in inscriptions and in italics in running English text does not make it English, we can both preserve the integrity of our principles of inclusion and make sure that users don't miss this by attesting the noun sense (provided it can be attested, of course) and including the Latin etymology in the English section. DCDuring TALK 15:58, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I think I understand. You're saying that it could be identified as a Noun (with the noun senses) under the Latin language. But then this would be missed by people reading English. And so, I guess, your solution to this is to include it in the "English" section with the etymology of Latin (which is what I did originally, although the Etymology is copied from the GCIDE, and probably not up to Wiktionary standards). Only now User:CodeCat has changed the language to "Translingual"? — This comment was unsigned.

I was saying that it could probably be attested as an English noun, but would need a definition that fitted its use as an English noun. I have provided a new English noun definition and found three citations that, I think, count as attestation. Please review.

For it to be Translingual I think we would have to attest it, not typographically distinguished, in more than one language or have some translingual authority recognize its use (as for taxonomic names). This is a particularly complicated little bit of 'legalism', not likely to be the norm for contributions from the Webster 1913 supplement. DCDuring TALK 16:31, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this help! I have found a bunch of GCIDE definitions not in Wiktionary and I thought I'd put a toe in the water and try to enter one. It is true that I have not found a non-typographically-distinguished version of "Pinxit" referring to the mark which occurs after the signature OR the work as a whole, although that's how it's defined by Wikipedia (grin). Anyway, my JSTOR 'free' bookshelf is used up, so in 14 days I may continue looking. --Pnelsonmusic (talk) 17:12, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Don't the quotations now in the entry show this use? DCDuring TALK 17:15, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I guess so! Sorry, I mis-read your definition to identify the signature as a whole, and not the word after the signature. Thanks again.

With DCD's excellent second definition, I would delete the first. It basically says that the word "pinxit" is called "pinxit", which isn't 100% exact. Of DCD's quotes, two first ones seem to be cases where "pinxit" refers to the whole of the signature, whether it contains the actual word "pinxit" or not. --Hekaheka (talk) 13:55, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

But the first one was actually written by a dictionary author in 1913. I keep thinking that there must be old books which illustrate these definitions, though I haven't found them yet. --Pnelsonmusic (talk) 04:12, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A monolingual English dictionary could be expected to include Latin terms that a user might encounter. A multilingual dictionary like Wiktionary can include Latin terms as Latin. The use of pinxit on a painting is arguably Latin. The use of pinxit as a noun in running English text without italics is English.

Latin (or pseudo-Latin) inscriptions on building, medical Latin, legal Latin, pharmacological Latin (ie noun phrase referring to herbal preparations, scientific Latin, and taxonomic Latin (species descriptions) all have required some careful thought to determine how we should treat them. Medical and legal Latin have been determined to be English by default, the others Latin by default. Whether these are correct defaults is hard to say. We also have exceptions based on attestation evidence. Eliminating the default for a usage type means that someone entering a term of these types needs to make a decision about what language heading etc is appropriate. This usually just means reinventing the wheel or making a mistake. If we want to revisit this kind of thing in general, it should be in the Beer Parlor.

In this particular case, we have the Latin and we have the English etymology section to tell users what pinxit means. That seems sufficient to me, being more than what we do for Latin in, say, building inscriptions. DCDuring TALK 11:39, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If the first sense were regarded as English, it would be a verb form, not noun, wouldn't it? — This comment was unsigned.--Hekaheka (talk) 16:09, 3 April 2015 (UTC) (added afterwards)[reply]

Yes. We could define it under a Verb heading with a context/usage label and gloss "{on a painting, after a name or mark of an artist) Painted." or with a non-gloss definition.

That would mean that we view it as English. DCDuring TALK 10:51, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Auchlaut

The term shouldn't exists, and it should be "Achlaut" (or "Ach-Laut") instead. -12:58, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

I agree. I've always heard this called Achlaut, never "Auchlaut". —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 13:57, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oddly enough, there are plenty of Google Books hits- until you look at them. The dictionary ones are due to either Google's OCR not recognizing that the Fraktur uppercase H is a letter, or to the scan missing the left-hand side of the page. The other hits seem to be mostly "... auch laut". It's nice to know that I'm not the only one that has trouble reading Fraktur... Chuck Entz (talk) 14:50, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Addendum: somebody needs to add an entry for Hauchlaut. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:53, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 15:01, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There is a minor chance this is supposed to be separate from the Ach-Laut as some regions have a three-way distinction of [ç] - [x] - [χ]. The word "auch" would have that velar [x] which is distinct from the uvular Ach-Laut. Though, I couldn't find any cites for this term. And the usage of "uch-Laut" is scarce. Korn (talk) 17:43, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

punish

"To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness." Equinox ◑ 14:18, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

fótaisheandálaíocht

Not only can I not find anything for this Irish word, I can't even find anything for its English gloss "photoarchaeology". (Archaeology performed by means of photographs? Digging up ancient photons out of the ground?) The English word being a redlink, however, I'm only RFVing the Irish. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 16:03, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As regards the English, your former guess seems to be correct: ref. [90]. It's not altogether a ridiculous idea: taking an infrared photo of a site, and seeing if there are IR-visible differences in the vegetation which might indicate underground formations, for example. But it's highly specialised, very likely obsolete (belonging to a brief period when it was considered its own thing, rather than one of the tools of an archaeologist), and I also can't find a single attestation of the Irish anywhere which isn't from here, or an automated dictionary hoover. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 22:33, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it’s a typo for fíteaseandálaíocht, phytoarchaeology. —Stephen ^(Talk) 05:46, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That doesn't even get a hit for here. (Although I'm sure it will when Google makes its way around again and hits this discussion.) --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 07:02, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

phytoarchaeology doesn’t get a hit? I seem to get quite a few hits for it. For example, Phytoarchaeology. —Stephen ^(Talk) 07:20, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Phytoarchaeology, yes. fíteaseandálaíocht, not so much. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 07:23, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

sordes

Rfv-sense the pterosaur. Sure, there's the genus Sordes, but as an English lowercase noun? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:33, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

April 2015

karass

Needs citations that are not clearly quoting Vonnegut. I've only been able to find one, and that's not really using the word in the spiritual sense Vonnegut meant (although it's probably close enough - it refers to a sports team who works so well together that it could be considered a "cognitive unit") Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:27, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

granfalloon

Same as #karass - needs citations that aren't just direct references to Vonnegut. Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:29, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I kind of feel that this is a different kind of word. It originates in a work of fiction, but is not a fictional object (like a lightsaber or tricorder), but a word used to describe a real-world phenomenon. I grant that I have yet to find a use that does not mention Vonnegut in connection with the word, but I think that this is similar to the difficulty in finding references to the sociological concept of anomie that don't mention Durkheim, or the theory of relativity that don't mention Einstein. bd2412 T 20:26, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Will these 3 do? --Droigheann (talk) 23:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Despite the use of the search term "-Vonnegut", an individual search for "Vonnegut" in each of those works shows that it does appear in proximity to an explanation of the meaning of "granfalloon". bd2412 T 02:24, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I know. And? So the authors explain the word for the uninitiated, then use it for their own purposes, not like a nonce word. (Incidentally, the second example uses the word on p 18 and only mentions Vonnegut and his definition on p 37, having in the meantime on p 27 felt the necessity of explaining what "innuendo" means.) So what? I can understand there are some rules to enable editors fight hoaxes, but if the advert on the Main Page about "all words of all languages" allows keeping eg brekekekex, Jabberwocky or... this thing, why not granfalloon? --Droigheann (talk) 21:43, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

came across its claimed use a journal, in a citation in Neuro-linguistic programming, someone might like to check the citation

Template:cite journal

someone might like to check the citation.--KTo288 (talk) 09:42, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not arguing for deleting it; I think that it should be kept despite the tendency to include it with reference to Vonnegut because it is not a "fictional" thing, but a name given to a real thing, albeit in a work of fiction. bd2412 T 13:39, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lots of authors do that, though. Philip Pullman's Northern Lights trilogy is set in a sort of alternate universe where things have different (etymologically plausible) names, e.g. "anbaric (electric) light", "gyptians" for gypsies. They're still not words used outside of the work itself and direct references to it. Equinox ◑ 15:10, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's a little different to use a variant name in fiction for something that already has a name in the real world. I don't think there is another word that means quite the same thing as "granfalloon", which is why nonfiction writers discussing nonfiction topics use the term. I think that such use it is more in line with the way writers use terms invented by sociologists or physicists, with reference to the person who coined the term. bd2412 T 15:42, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

nosema

Etymology_1 only. I cannot find any attestations of the word in English meaning "disease", only of a genus name. Leasnam (talk) 01:36, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is a bit tricky: it's used in English to refer to the concept covered by the word in classical languages (here, here and here, for instance). It's a little more clear in passages such as this and this that it's considered to be Latin, not English. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:39, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Each of those five passages use the term in italics. That would suggest that it is a foreign word being mentioned in an English sentence. SemperBlotto (talk) 06:51, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

migrenă abdominală

I'm seeing some hits in wordlists, just not sure it's used. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:58, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

à chacun son goût

Created by User:86.136.87.210, the entry originally comprised "Each to their own taste. But not proper French"; I reformatted the entry, defining it as "{{lb|fr|nonstandard}} to each his own". Is this real and idiomatic? — I.S.M.E.T.A. 20:20, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that (deprecated template usage) à chacun son goût, (deprecated template usage) chacun son goût, (deprecated template usage) à chacun ses goûts, and (deprecated template usage) chacun ses goûts are all valid French expressions. We have (deprecated template usage) chacun à son goût as an English expression. SemperBlotto (talk) 20:31, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@SemperBlotto: Thanks for chiming in. So, is the entry OK as it currently stands? Or should the non-standard tag be removed? — I.S.M.E.T.A. 20:43, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that non-standard can be removed, but I would like that confirmed by someone who didn't fail his O-level French. SemperBlotto (talk) 07:10, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's standard and attested, google books:"à chacun son goût (also see gout, the 1990 reformed spelling). I think the user has confused this with chacun à son goût which is not standard French because of the inversion of the first two words. Renard Migrant (talk) 11:14, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Berahino

Supposedly an English surname. Zero hits in the 1911 census of England. SemperBlotto (talk) 10:33, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It might be a Kirundi surname. --Sucio green (talk) 10:56, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's a Wonderfool entry based on England male football (soccer) internationals. This one refers to Saido Berahino who is English. Bear in mind there are no rules against having three citations all referring to Saido Berahino. Renard Migrant (talk) 11:12, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes - I've changed it to Kirundi. SemperBlotto (talk) 20:04, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

woodbox

I understand this to be a box for holding wood, e.g. kept beside a hearth for replenishing the fire. I am disputing the sense "a box made of wood". Equinox ◑ 17:59, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I agree. A box made of wood is a wooden box, although a woodbox for firewood could be made of wood also. Donnanz (talk) 09:14, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

CrossFit

Does it pass WT:BRAND? I doubt it. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds}

Here's one for BRAND:
- 2014, Robert Kirkman, Invincible #108, page 19:
  - Is Eve going to start doing crossfit and lose weight when the baby is born?
Cheers! bd2412 T 22:19, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

platisher

Neologism or protologism? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 21:07, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Widely mentioned (but not widely used?) on the Web. A candidate for the "hot word" tag and later revisiting, perhaps? Equinox ◑ 21:09, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hot words need citations, right? Just ones that span less than a year going back from now. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:03, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

parcelcopter

One use on BGC in single quotes, which I guess is fine but not great support. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 22:16, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Abundantly attestable at Google News going back at least to December 2013, though it is unclear which of the sources are durably archived. DCDuring TALK 22:37, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hotword? Renard Migrant (talk) 20:30, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not if the December 2013 cite is durably archived. DCDuring TALK 23:03, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As you know, there are no criteria whatsoever for deciding what counts as 'durably archived' and what doesn't. So... I guess we vote on it? Renard Migrant (talk) 17:52, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/dhl-parcelcopter-paketkopter-amazon-prime-air-drone-528873. I guess it depends on whether ibtimes.co.uk deletes its pages or not. I have no idea whatsoever. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:01, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Re: "there are no criteria whatsoever for deciding what counts as 'durably archived' and what doesn't": As per common practice, Google books and Usenet generally count as "permanently recorded media", a term used in WT:ATTEST. So "no criteria whatsoever" is rather inaccurate. I don't remember anyone challenging these two items as core of "permanently recording media"; archived RFV discussions should confirm that this has been mentioned multiple times as tentative criteria. The remaining confusion is about what lies in the outer layers of "permanently recorded media": maybe even protuberances? --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:57, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No formal or written criteria then; WT:CFI doesn't mention it at all. Renard Migrant (talk) 17:48, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, WT:CFI#Attestation does cover what I said, in this (boldface mine): "As Wiktionary is an online dictionary, this naturally favors media such as Usenet groups, which are durably archived by Google. Print media such as books and magazines will also do, particularly if their contents are indexed online." I admit that CFI could better connect these sentences with the term "permanently recorded media". And I find the phrasing unfortunate; our argument for Usenet was not archiving by Google but rather the massive independent replication of Usenet. Certainly could be improved. I could try to do some drafting and propose a fix but when I create vote Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2015-02/Trimming CFI for Wiktionary is not an encyclopedia to remove what blatantly contradicts our practice, almost no one attends, and one person opposes on petty grounds, that is kind of demotivating. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:07, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

simfile

"A file for a simulator, specifically a rhythm game simulator such as Stepmania." Even from Usenet newsgroups I see we will have trouble attesting this, though it sometimes occurs as part of a path/folder name in game installations! Equinox ◑ 22:42, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

imperatrixes

Uncitable. Cite or delete. NativeCat ^{drop by and say Hi!} 02:12, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think the person who created that page assumed it was the correct English plural form, by using regular English pluralization (e.g. ax/axe -> axes). Hillcrest98 (talk) 23:59, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

SALTS

Really? SemperBlotto (talk) 06:50, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

hemigynous

Two dubious senses. Half-womanish? Google Books only has a handful of matches about insects, and the term is being proposed (and rejected) rather than seriously used. (Creator is Pass a Method, by the way, with his usual weird agenda.) Equinox ◑ 03:53, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

hemiandrous

As with hemigynous above. Wish we could stop PaM resetting his IP address all the time. Equinox ◑ 03:53, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Add pseudogyny, pseudogynous, pseudandry, pseudandrous. ObsequiousNewt (ἔβαζα|ἐτλέλεσα) 13:56, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

lepadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimypotrimmat...

This word passed RFV back in 2008, when CFI had the "use in a well-known work" option. That option is gone, and this is an English word, so it needs three independent citations to stay. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 22:34, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say even that RFV was erroneous. The well-known work in question was written in Ancient Greek, and this is an English word. In fact the English source refers to the Ancient Greek source. They're not the same work! Renard Migrant (talk) 14:17, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

pictura motionis

Although this word would otherwise be utile, I can’t find instances of it on either Google Groups or Google Books. --Romanophile (talk) 19:08, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tue

Rfv-sense "the god Tiw". —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 00:50, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's rare and apparently mostly used self-consciously and in connection with the name of the weekday. I found three citations, though the first admits to having no idea who "Tue" is, and the third is "If he can't mention Tue, Woden, Thor and Frig..." - -sche (discuss) 16:19, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Are the citations adequate? - -sche (discuss) 21:28, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

well ain't that the catfish in the trap

All Google search results are copies of our entry. Equinox ◑ 02:41, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

fung

Anglicised form of "fungus"; plural "fungs". I can't seem to find it in dictionaries or in Google Books. Equinox ◑ 19:01, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This book explains that the term was coined by Ferdinand von Mueller but never became widespread. It has the usable quote "The Baron stuck to his fungs, but the term failed to catch on".
The same book also discusses an 1892 monograph by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, "An enumeration of all fungs" which presumably uses the word in running text as well.
I'm also seeing citations on Scholar to R Tate "A list of the charas, mosses, liverworts, lichens, fungs, and algals of extratropical South Australia" which also presumably uses the word in running text. If so, that is three cites. Spinning Spark 21:41, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. {{context|extremely rare|lang=en}} might be in order. Renard Migrant (talk) 15:44, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

discount

Rfv-senses:

Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.
Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.

These appear to be nominal not adjectival. I can't imagine anyone saying "these clothes are very discount". Renard Migrant (talk) 15:42, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've found several unambiguously adjectival quotations, but I'm not sure if they all correspond to one of those two senses.

—Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 16:19, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

These look fair enough. Renard Migrant (talk) 11:19, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV passed: adjectival attesting quotations are above; the nominator seems okay with them above. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:06, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

desobskura

Ido word with an unknown definition. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 13:56, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

materieskar

Ido word with an unknown definition. (Based on the etymology, perhaps "materialize"?) —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 13:59, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

materiigar

Ido word with an unknown definition. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 14:01, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

whatchamahoosey

Has one attesting quotation at Citations:whatchamahoosey, one which is possibly not durably archived. Needs three quotations. --Dan Polansky (talk) 14:03, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

futbaluyo

Ido word with an unknown definition. ("Football container"?) —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 14:04, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

whatchamahoozy

Any attestation? There is one quotation at Citations:whatchamahoozy. My position is that quotations of similar spellings such as whatchamahoosie do not count to attest "whatchamahoozy". --Dan Polansky (talk) 14:17, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I can find plenty of citations, but all on blogs, and as I understand it, they don't meet our attestation criteria. Kiwima (talk) 07:56, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

皮奇萊穆

Chinese for Pichilemu, a town in Chile. I'm also challenging the simplified form 皮奇莱穆, which is a soft redirect. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 19:24, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

披市勒畝

Alternative form. I'm also challenging the simplified form 披市勒亩, which is a soft redirect. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 19:27, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The pinyin entries for both will have to be deleted as well if these fail. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:59, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pichilemu City

And apparently we missed a whole bunch more of the uncitable names in various languages for a certain town in Chile. I'll just post them below this. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:23, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pichilemu

RFV of the Catalan, Dutch, Mapudungun, and Welsh sections. I found one cite for the Dutch and I suppose the Mapudungun has promise (it only needs a single mention), but who knows. NB: I'm speedying translations in Pichilemu in scripts that allow me to quickly ascertain that they have no citations. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:39, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ピチレム

I honestly can't tell for sure if this is citable or not. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:53, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

https://books.google.cl/books?id=Gj-t-YdtzdoC&lpg=PT81&dq=%E3%83%94%E3%83%81%E3%83%AC%E3%83%A0&pg=PT81#v=onepage&q=%E3%83%94%E3%83%81%E3%83%AC%E3%83%A0&f=false

https://books.google.cl/books?id=MIgcAQAAMAAJ&q=%E3%83%94%E3%83%81%E3%83%AC%E3%83%A0&dq=%E3%83%94%E3%83%81%E3%83%AC%E3%83%A0&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=oPcqVYLWM4i7ggSC7IPYAw&redir_esc=y

https://books.google.cl/books?id=4bodAQAAIAAJ&q=%E3%83%94%E3%83%81%E3%83%AC%E3%83%A0&dq=%E3%83%94%E3%83%81%E3%83%AC%E3%83%A0&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=oPcqVYLWM4i7ggSC7IPYAw&redir_esc=y

There you go. --Diego Grez (talk) 22:56, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first and third citations look good, as far as I can tell. Can a Japanese speaker confirm whether the second citation is a use or a mention? —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 23:10, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The second cite above is just a mention. Looks like a listing in a dictionary. That said, the term is sufficiently citable. Here's a qualifying example for the needed third cite:

学術月報 (Academia Monthly), Volume 26, Issues 323-329:

...上部の構造ははるかに南方チリのピチレム—で見ることができた。

“...the upper structure could also be seen in Pichilemu, Chile in the far-distant south.”

(The hyphen in the Japanese after the town name appears to be a scanno.)

HTH, ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 18:47, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ciudad de Pichilemu

All I can find on Google Books and Google Groups is this citation [91], which uses the wrong capitalization. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 20:19, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pichilemupi

Quechua for Pichileminian. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 20:22, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Arkhanguelsk

Asturian. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:50, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is in Asturian Wikipedia. Arkhangelsk is one of the major ports in Russia, and it's vey likely that there would be an Asturian name for it. --Hekaheka (talk) 05:35, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Arkhanguelsk" is also an alternative French name for it, which renders the Russian pronunciation closer than Arkhangelsk ("g", not "ž"). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:08, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pichileminian

Found one cite on BGC. If deleted, don't forget to do away with the plural, too. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:54, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

puntillazo

Rfv-sense for the beach parties at Pichilemu. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:58, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Such an event exists, sure. The etymology is slightly different, coming from La Puntilla, Pichilemu, which is a big deal for surfers in Chile. Some news websites mention it here from last year, and this one from this year. According to the articles, this event has been going on for a few years now. I couldn't find any decent cites using the term without quote marks, however. I'd delete it, personally. BTW, in Spain it is called a botellón. --Recónditos (talk) 21:15, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's a word massively used, specially in social networks, to refer to such beach parties. There are some national newspapers who have used the word too to refer to those parties, including El Dínamo. --Diego Grez (talk) 22:52, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

chuckwalla

RFV of the Finnish. Tagging User:Hekaheka. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 22:07, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I added the Finnish section on Apr. 8 2014 when I was working on the letter "C" of the Finnish index. This word was and still is on the list as a Finnish word and I assumed it had been checked by the normally very reliable User:Jyril who had added it to the index on 12:49, 14 February 2007. However, when I now check Google, I find only scant usage on the discussion pages of reptile enthusiasts which probably cannot be regarded as durably archived. The scantness of usage comes as no surprise as such, as the chuckwallas are quite exotic critters from our perspective. All in all, one might come to the conclusion that this word is poorly attested as a Finnish word. On the other hand, I encountered no other word that would have been used of the Sauromalus lizards in Finnish. I leave it for the community to decide the future of this entry. --Hekaheka (talk) 22:50, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

European Union legislation mentions Sauromalius varius on the list of species to which special trade restrictions are applied. The English version of the text uses the common name "San Esteban Island chuckwalla" of this species whereas the Finnish version uses "Sauromalus varius -lisko". --Hekaheka (talk) 04:25, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Кодегуа

Russian. One hit on BGC. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 23:31, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This one seems good. --Diego Grez (talk) 23:39, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Литуэче

Same as above. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 23:36, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Маркапомакоча

Yet another. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 23:37, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Markapumaqucha

And in Quechua. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 23:37, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Google maps and en-Wikipedia recognize this spelling as a name of a lake in central Peru and its not unlikely that there would be a town of the same name. Quechua is the original language of the region and "Marcapomacocha" which you don't challenge is hispanicized spelling of "Markapumaqucha". --Hekaheka (talk) 04:45, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not present in the AMLQ dictionary (which includes placenames). — Ungoliant ^(falai) 13:15, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So? --Hekaheka (talk) 17:34, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So people looking for citations need to look elsewhere. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 17:44, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lolol

RFV of the Dutch and Italian sections (the latter has one cite). —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 23:40, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

rickrollear

rickrolear

Spanish: to rickroll. I'll take a break from spamming RFV for now, but my, there are certainly a lot of entries to go through. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 23:45, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.geektopia.es/es/technology/2014/07/21/noticias/una-proyecto-de-raspberry-pi-para-rickrollear-a-los-duenos-de-un-chromecast.html

https://www.fayerwayer.com/2010/10/estudiante-rickrollea-a-su-profesor-con-un-ensayo/

http://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/tecnologia/redes-sociales/youtube/youtube-restringe-acceso-a-video-que-dio-origen-a-la-broma-de-rick-astley/2014-07-20/191702.html

http://codigoespagueti.com/noticias/rickroll-bloqueado-youtube-2/

http://www.xataka.com/accesorios/rickmote-controller-demuestra-que-es-posible-hackear-y-rickrollear-a-los-usuarios-de-chromecast

http://www.levelup.com/noticias/302765/Xbox-One-nos-rickrollea-con-Games-with-Gold

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2008/04/11/rockandblog/1207880035.html

http://www.tomatesasesinos.com/2015/02/11/rick-astley-no-murio-de-la-droga/

And there are plenty more... --Diego Grez (talk) 23:50, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Diego Grez Are any of those durably archived per WT:CFI (i.e., were they ever in print)? If not, I doubt they'll count as citations. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 23:59, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

El Mundo, most likely was printed. Cooperativa radio's archives are kept at the National library of Chile, so I think it counts too as "durably archived". As for the others, I'm not sure. Would it count if I go ahead and use the Wayback Machine to archive them? --Diego Grez (talk) 00:37, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We don't allow that, no. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:34, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Three citations needed for each. Good luck! Renard Migrant (talk) 18:39, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Romanica

Someone's conlang. And don't forget to remove the links from entries that are anagrams of this one if it fails. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 00:49, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ekspreso

Another conlang. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 01:06, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ceqli

I'm pretty sure all the uses on Usenet can be traced back to Rex May, who invented Ceqli. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 01:10, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

diadochi

Rfv this English case variant of Diadochi, which I am struggling to find non-capitalised. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 02:16, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cited. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 13:33, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV passed: attesting quotations are at diadochi. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:54, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thor's hammer

RFV-sense "swastika".
There are two citations on the citations page, but the first actually uses "Thorshamarr", and I interpret the second not as a use of the phrase "Thor's hammer" as a name for the swastika symbol, but as a suggestion that the swastika symbol was one of several stylized representations of Thor's hammer. The citations I see on Google Books are all very mentiony, e.g.: "Some foreign authors have called it Thor's hammer, or Thor's hammer-mark, but the correctness of this has been disputed..."
Robert Philips Greg's On the Meaning and Origin of the Fylfot and Swastika does have "In Iceland another form of Thor's hammer is found in the shape of 卍", but this suggests that "Thor's hammer" is a generic name for several different shapes, not specifically the swastika. Compare: in the sentence "in blackletter, another form of double U is found, namely w", "double U" does not mean "w" (w is merely one form of double U). - -sche (discuss) 02:35, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"H.R. Ellis Davidson puts up an acceptable case for identifying the swastika with Thor's hammer, while admitting the swastika to be the older of the two signs." That seems to say unambiguously that they are not the same symbol. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:36, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

buy and pay for

Is this really a verb? SemperBlotto (talk) 14:10, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well yeah, what else would it be? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 15:00, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is arguably an adjective (something I don't recall saying before), as the forms other than the putative past participle are very rarely used with the meaning "bribed" and can be readily interpreted from their components even when possible used in that sense.

To buy and pay for is a formulaic phrase in some contexts, in which the pay for component seems almost to be used as an intensifier, though that sense is clearly directly derived from the idea that once the payment has been accepted, the evidence that a sale was intended by both parties is complete. In the case of bribery, a quid pro quo is essential for a crime to be charged.

Usage such as "bought-and-paid-for testimony" is supportive of an adjective PoS as well. DCDuring TALK 17:28, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Bought and paid" can be used of sex, friendship, a public official or body of public officials, a public action (as a law), an election, testimony, a witness, biased news coverage, etc. This goes beyond bribery. It is sometimes used in the context of discussions of commoditization, in which it is also pejorative.

I'm not convinced that any of this makes a winning argument for inclusion. We have the appropriate sense at buy ("bribe"). DCDuring TALK 17:55, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm the one who put it in, and I admit a degree of ambivalence myself. I had entered "bought and paid for", which, in it's adjectival use as corrupted by money, seems a clear candidate for inclusion. When looking up supporting quotes, I found a number of them (such as the quote I put on the "buy and pay for" entry) were using it as a verb not as an adjective. All in the past tense, however. I was not sure what was the right way to go about entering this -- if someone has a better suggestion, I would welcome it. Kiwima (talk) 19:51, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

life support

Rfv-sense: "A machine that keeps the body of an ill or injured person alive." --Does such machine really exist or is this some sort of sci-fi concept? I have understood that it still takes a combination of gadgetry plus a well-trained medical team to keep a severely ill or injured person alive. The combination used depends on the condition of the patient. --Hekaheka (talk) 19:41, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is in widespread use. Many citations can be found by searching for "she was on life support" or "he was on life support" (in quotation marks) on Google Books. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 19:49, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, but is our definition correct? Is "life support" really a machine? --Hekaheka (talk) 20:22, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Further: what, if anything, is the difference between "life support" and "intensive care"? --Hekaheka (talk) 05:21, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

intensive care refers to the special medical treatment of a critically ill patient, including constant monitoring and testing. It also refers to the department or area of a hospital where such treatment is carried out. The main ingredient in intensive care is the constant close monitoring by specially trained nurses. life support refers to the maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery, and it refers mainly to the equipment and special procedures, such as a ventilator (respirator), an infusion pump, a crash cart (resuscitation cart, code cart), and intraaortic balloon pump. While life support formally refers to the type of care by specially trained doctors and nurses, as well as to the specialized equipment that they use, in informal speech life support can mean the equipment itself. So a person may be in intensive care, but not require the use of any life support equipment. If a patient needs life support, he will usually be placed in the intensive care ward, and will usually remain there for a while after the life support equipment is removed. When life support means it equipment itself, the phrasing is often "to be on life support." —Stephen ^(Talk) 05:59, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(after edit conflict)

It could be a single device, but is better defined using (uncountable) "equipment" or "equipment and techniques". ::::intensive care is almost always in a specialized unit of a hospital. It can include medication intended to improve a patient's long-term condition I think. Basic life support can be provided almost anywhere and is intended to keep the patient alive until remedial treatment can be provided or on a maintenance basis to avoid death. Many forms do not have to be provided in an ICU, as IVs, breathing assistance, etc. I think all of this is very dependent on the nature of the medical service system in a circumstance, so it should vary by patient condition and geography and change over time. DCDuring TALK 05:57, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it's a 'machine' and even if citable that way, the more general sense of 'a system of medical treatments' would cover the machine sense. In other words, it could be a machine or several machines or a machine and other things like saline bags which are not machines or machine administered. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:32, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I would sidestep the rfv by changing the definition to include non-machine things. Does any disagree that things like a human (a non-machine, for these purposes) administering medication or fluids is part of life support? If not, just change it and close the rfv as moot. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:42, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A tender subject for me, as it's near the 3rd anniversary of my wife's death in hospital. But Oxford does say: "(informal) equipment in a hospital used for life support: a patient on life support." Donnanz (talk) 23:23, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry.

It seems to be metonymy at work. The term seems to include the phenomenon, state, or activity; the equipment; the equipment and techniques; and the patient. We could either have a few definitions or just one or two, artfully worded. DCDuring TALK 02:58, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think sense 1 needs to be broadened to cover the use of life support in hospitals, which is closely allied to intensive care; either that or expand sense 2. The piece I quoted from my hard copy doesn't appear in the online version, so the definition must have been revised at some stage. Life support (equipment) includes anything used to monitor a patient or keep them alive, especially if they are in a coma. Donnanz (talk) 08:23, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Borrowing from Stephen and Renard above I wrote two new definitions:

(deprecated template usage) (medicine) Maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery.
(medicine) The equipment and special procedures used for life support,

If these were found acceptable then the current #2 could be deleted. --Hekaheka (talk) 05:48, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, looks OK. Not a machine as such, which is a life support machine. The translations entered for the machine sense will have to be checked. Donnanz (talk) 09:25, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Полет

Bulgarian: Paulette. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:06, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's correct. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:52, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Atitarev I wasn't asking whether it is correct, but whether it can be cited. I have almost no knowledge of Bulgarian, so I request your help in finding three cites for this entry. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:34, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was hoping you would drop the RFV, if someone confirms it's a correct term. I'm not that keen to keep translations of foreign names into other languages to start looking for citations. On the term itself, in Russian, at least, the name could be Russified a bit and turn into "Полетта" in literature (not necessarily) but if it's an official person, the transliteration would be normally closer to the original. If you know a famous person named Paulette or person from a famous book, you could search for a translation into languages, you added RFV for. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 22:16, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Atitarev It shouldn't be too hard to find the cites on Google Books and link them here if this really is correct. The issue is that we have users that claim something is "correct" even when it cannot be cited literally anywhere, and that's poor lexicography. The only way to deal with that is to go through the RFV process to demonstrate that a word actually passes CFI. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:53, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I see your point but it IS hard to find citations for this particular term. Bulgarian Полет is mixed with the Russian полёт (poljót), normally spelled "полет" in a running Russian text and as I said, I am not that keen to keep this entry. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:10, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Bogorm, would you be able & willing to help with this? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:26, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I cannot remember on the spot any work from Bulgarian literature where this name appears. If there is a famous work from Europæan literature with an eponymous personage I could search for a Bulgarian translation in my library (or other available source, if there is a translation) and quote the sentence. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 17:55, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Bogorm You don't need to scour your library, you can simply go to google books:"Полет" and copy-paste three that are in Bulgarian. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 01:51, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
As far as I can see, all of them are instances of the noun полет (and not the female proper noun Полет) and searches in google-books are case-insensitive. That is why I resorted to the aforementioned proposal. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 18:55, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
My favorite tool for this is Google advanced search, which makes it possible to limit searches to a particular language. Here is Google books search in Bulgarian for Полет, but it seems to mostly find полет. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:38, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It appears to be case-insensitive as well, as far as I can infer from your last sentence. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 18:55, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Полетт

Belarusian: Paulette. I see hits, but I think they're all Russian. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:07, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

~~They are both Belarusian and Russian, plus Ukrainian~~. Oops, it's Russian and Ukrainian, Belarusian is Палетт or Палет. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:44, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

بوليت

I see hits, but I need an Arabic speaker to assess that they actually mean Paulette. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:08, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not to mention that several of them are in Urdu- not Arabic (neither of which I can read). Chuck Entz (talk) 02:33, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's the correct transliteration into Arabic. No, it's only Arabic, which lacks letter for "p", which is normally subsituted with ب "b" (can be pronounced as "b" or "p", depending on the speaker), and ي (yāʾ) is also only Arabic. Urdu and Persian spelling would be something like "پولیت" or "پلیت" (without "o"), with پ and Persian/Urdu ی. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:42, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't referring to the term, but to the Google Books hits, some of which are, indeed in Urdu, and are no doubt unrelated to this entry. While it's good to know that the entry is correct, this is rfv, so, until such time as Metaknowledge withdraws the rfv, the question remains as to whether it's attested in Arabic, and the language of the Google Books hits is relevant. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:33, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t know why there would be instances of its use in Urdu books, unless it was quoting something from Arabic. That isn’t how Urdu would spell it. As far as I know, only Arabic uses that spelling. —Stephen ^(Talk) 06:05, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not saying there is, but there are, nonetheless, Urdu books in the Google Books search results (unless Google has the language of "بوليت" this book misidentified, for instance). I know very little Arabic, and next to nothing of Urdu, while you and Anatoli know a lot. Both of you, however, seem to be flunking out on interpretation of plain English: read Metaknowledge's sentence above, and show me where he asked you to confirm that the entry means Paulette. It looks to me like "they" in that sentence refers back to "hits" in the first clause. Likewise, Anatoli seemed to think I was saying that "بوليت" is Urdu for Paulette. My point had nothing to do with any detail of the Urdu language whatsoever: we know that there are hits on Google Books, but the presence of Urdu books in that list shows that there's some random noise in the sample, so we can't take the presence of a book in the results as evidence of attestation without further examination- something neither Metaknowledge nor I is qualified to do. This isn't the Information desk, where questions get answered, this is rfv, where entries get deleted if there are no cites. As it stands now, the only things that are going to keep this entry from being deleted are either Metaknowledge withdrawing the rfv- which I think would be a good idea- or someone demonstrating that the entry meets the verification provisions of CFI. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:35, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, that’s Urdu, all right. However, Google uses OCR to try to get hits, and OCR works poorly for printed Arabic, and is just useless for printed Urdu. The word in that book that Google claims is بوليت, is actually روایت (rawayat, “tradition”). —Stephen ^(Talk) 07:49, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

numbery

"Melodious". Not sure what that has to do with numbers. Equinox ◑ 22:22, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

One can find it all over the place in older dictionaries and encyclopedias, but they all cite just one source: w:Josuah Sylvester, either as author, or translator. Here's possibly the most-cited passage: [92]. He also seems to be the source cited for most or all of the references in the same sources for another sense, meaning numerous. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:04, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think it has to do with number in the sense of a musical tune/musical number/song Leasnam (talk) 20:02, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I thought about that, but how far back does that sense of number go? Joshua Sylvester died in 1618. Besides, he was well known for adding tons of ornate, meaningless embellishments to the simplest of sentences- this looks like a nonce term to me. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:00, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

buzlaqquşu

It's vandalizm! --123snake45 (talk) 14:29, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This allegged Azerbaijani term could be speedy RFV failed, IMHO, since searches are so unpromising: google books:"buzlaqquşu", google groups:"buzlaqquşu", “buzlaqquşu”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.. Created by 78.175.91.57 (talk). --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:19, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any Azerbaijani dictionary on One Look? If you even search the word çörək (bread) on Groups, there are only 12 results and on books there are only 38 results so how could you wait you would find this kind of word there? Avibase (the world bird database) and Observado contains the word buzlaqquşu. 123snake45 even doesn't know what Vandalism is, if you add a new word that he doesn't want to see it here, he may call it as Vandalism. He wants to spread the word 'buzulkuşu' by the meaning of 'penguin', this is why he tries to make it delete. --78.167.193.199 04:11, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's odd how a rare South American bird that merits two sentences in its Wikipedia article suddenly turns out to have common names in a variety of European and Central Asian languages, which a Turkish IP seems curiously intent on creating entries for, in spite of the fact that they have no support in CFI-compliant sources whatsoever (unless you count one Books on Demand self-published book that doesn't even give the name of the author). Chuck Entz (talk) 05:47, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do Avibase and Observado include actual usage of the word buzlaqquşu, or just list it? It's very easy to make up a word and put it in an on-line dictionary when it's not actually a used word, you know. Renard Migrant (talk) 09:04, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is very easy? To you, you are smart, their owners are stupid? --88.251.215.219 12:02, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

accomplished

Rfv-sense: "sophisticated" - in what sense? OED doesn't include this. ---> Tooironic (talk) 04:14, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Added in diff. I can't work it out either, does @Speednat still contribute here? We could ask him/her. Renard Migrant (talk) 12:27, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A few books with what may be cites: 1, 2, 3, 4. This may correspond to the "skillfully done" sense in Macmillan. Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:29, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first definitions go back to this edit in 2003, and they seem to be verbatim from another dictionary. Perhaps one that is not currently subject to copyright. However they're really poorly worded, by 1913 definitions or 19th century. I would reword them. Oh, and the citations look good. Renard Migrant (talk) 15:59, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

смерть как

@KoreanQuoter, Vahagn Petrosyan, Wikitiki89, Wanjuscha, Stephen G. Brown. In my opinion, it's not a language unit. Russian Wiktionary has it too. The word "смерть" (death) is used as an adverb but is usually followed by "как". Example: "ему смерть как хочется курить" — "he’s dying for a smoke". A Russian German dictionary has a following example: "мне смерть как хочется" - "ich möchte für mein Leben gern" [93]. Please correct me if I'm wrong. It was also entered in [94]. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 08:44, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also calling @Useigor. Any input is appreciated. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 08:46, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"[N]ot a language unit", did you mean to rfd? Renard Migrant (talk) 09:32, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No. It doesn't seem like a word to me, "смерть" ("death") is used sort of adverbially in expressions - of type "смерть как (не) хочет(ся)" - expressing strong desire/reluctance. Everything that follows "смерть как ..." is not part of the expression but with "как" (like, as) it seems incomplete. I need the collocation verified as a "word", otherwise "смерть" needs enhancements. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 10:04, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Anatoli, you probably mean it is a sum-of-parts (SOP) and cannot be included according to WT:CFI. I agree. --Vahag (talk) 12:09, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t think it’s SoP. If I think of it as separate words, it makes no sense: death as it-wants. It’s very easy for a native Russian speaker, but for foreign learners of Russian, the meaning is not clear. —Stephen ^(Talk) 13:39, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is a common use of как (kak) to indicate the extent of something: "Ты сейчас умрешь, как удачно все получилось.", which probably evolved from something more logical like "Ты не поверишь, как удачно все получилось." (I hope I'm using commas correctly...). The only additional part of "Ему смерть как хочется курить." is the interesting use of the word смерть (smertʹ) as an adverb (is it really an adverb here? I'm not sure). We need to make sure we have these senses at both как (kak) and смерть (smertʹ), but there is nothing interesting in their being together. --Wiki Tiki 89 14:07, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, (мне, тебе, ему) хо́чется (xóčetsja) is an impersonal equivalent of "я хочу, ты хочешь, он хочет", etc. So, the interesting part is "смерть как ...", "ужас как ..." only. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:41, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like смерть is used as an adverb "figuratively" in this sense. Anyways, the figurative ways of using words seem to be the hardest part of Russian language learners like myself. Are there any more examples like these: nouns being used as adverbs? --KoreanQuoter (talk) 14:33, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not just nouns, Wikitiki gave examples of whole clauses used with "как". Ужас как он поёт! - It's terrible how she sings! Пиздец как он быстро бегает! - It's fucking awesome how fast he's running! (vulgar). Infinitives: Обалдеть как она сегодня выглядит! - She looks so-o cool today! (colloquial). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 14:52, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's quite unexpected, but interesting. I think как has more functions than I expected. --KoreanQuoter (talk) 15:00, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My theory on etymology: something is to be described in an exaggerated way (it's preceded is by "как"), the first part describes the way, the intensity, etc. in an exaggerated way. Literally,the first sentence can be translated (so that it makes a bit of sense) "(It's) death how/the way I want to smoke" - so badly. "Death" can be substituted with other intensifiers, as above. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 15:36, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Now this makes things much clearer. --KoreanQuoter (talk) 15:41, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Send to RFD if wished; easily attested at google books:"смерть как". --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:12, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. Does seem like an odd request from an experienced editor. RFV determines existence; determining whether something functions as a single unit is an RFD matter. Renard Migrant (talk) 17:54, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't in a hurry to delete it. I needed to verify idiomaticity of the collocation, which wasn't quite straightforward - it has been added to some online dictionaries and the Russian Wiktionary also has it. If other editors proved (with citations) that it's used idiomatically, there wouldn't be any need for an RFD. Attestations would be required for not a free collocation but the idiomatic usage, if it makes sense. Now, I will just delete it but the additional usage should be covered by examples in [[смерть]]. It's still not clear what part of speech it is and what this grammatical feature/phenomenon is called. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:36, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, most hits in google books:"смерть как" have nothing to do with the usage in question. They are equivalent to the English "death as ...". --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:41, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You should send it to RFD, not "just delete it", especially since Stephen above opined it is not sum of parts. No, we do not seek attestation to show a phrase is idiomatic; please check again our practice, by consulting to top sections of RFD and RFV pages, and by checking the long history of RFV and RFD nominations and their resolutions. If you don't believe me, check the comments of multiple other editors above. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:42, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(re: most hits in google books:"смерть как" have nothing to do with the usage in question)... that’s a good test for SOP, Anatoli. If it were SOP, then it would just be like most hits in google books:"смерть как" and would be equivalent to the English "death as ...". —Stephen ^(Talk) 07:57, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ethnoscape

This gets quite a few hits on Google Books, but the current definition, frankly, looks like one of those grammatically correct but semantically meaningless sentences (think "colourless green ideas sleep furiously") that spambots spit out to get past spam filters. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 02:22, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's the hallmark of social science, isn't it? (The most baffling and gratuitous word-coinages I've ever seen, personally, are those of Bracha L. Ettinger.) "Ethnoscape" seems to have been introduced by Arjun Appadurai (1996?) as part of a set of five -scapes: Arjun Appadurai#Theory. "Ethnic landscape" probably captures it really. Equinox ◑ 02:39, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I've brought back the four "related terms" terms you deleted, but as "coordinate terms", because they are the other four in the Appaduraian (lol) set. If you think that's a particularly bad move then feel free to delete them again. Equinox ◑ 02:45, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Marichiwe

Aymara. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:56, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Марчиуэ and Марчихуе

Russian. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:58, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

چىلى

Uyghur. Hopefully citable, but I don't know where to look. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:00, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tsílè

Yoruba. As above, only needs one cite, if someone can find a dictionary that includes it. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:02, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kóstá Rikà

Yoruba again. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:04, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kustarika

Quechua. @Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV, is it in any dictionary you have access to? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:06, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, and I couldn’t find anything anywhere else either. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 14:59, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

antanka pampa

Quechua, as above. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:07, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Грез

Both Bulgarian and Ukrainian. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:09, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

سەلەنا

Uyghur. I reckon I'll take a break from RFVing for now. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:11, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

big picture

Rfv-sense: (slang) The movies or movie theaters.

I'm not familiar with this sense. It is not in OneLook. If it is real we need citations. DCDuring TALK 16:18, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If it is, it's got to be dated for sure, like short for big picture movie theatre/big picture show or to that effect Leasnam (talk) 20:24, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A quick look on Google books yields 8 books with Big Picture in the title that are about movies. I have also found a number of quotes, which I will put on the citations page. Kiwima (talk) 20:45, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As I see it, the cites are 0/4 as citations of the sense:

2010 (title) Uses the idiomatic sense that we have as "totality"
2010 Drew "big" + "picture palace", picture palace being a kind of promotional name for a motion picture theater.
2008 Workshop "big" + "picture"
2003 Kern "big"+ "picture"

I think we would be looking for something like the baseball sense of the big show ("major leagues"). DCDuring TALK 00:47, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have created big show. bd2412 T 15:48, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not capitalized? Renard Migrant (talk) 17:17, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

amaxophobia

This English noun is defined as "fear of riding in a vehicle" and has one citation from 1908. However, considering that the more analogical spelling failed RFV, I assume that so will this one. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 17:54, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I found two other uses: [95], [96]. Einstein2 (talk) 20:05, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Einstein2: Thanks. I've added the citation from your first link to Citations:amaxophobia, but I believe that that's a mention, not a use. As for the second link, it doesn't have a preview when I access it. The entry still only has the one CFI-valid citation (the 1908 one), I'm afraid. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 20:47, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@I'm so meta even this acronym I've added the second citation. Einstein2 (talk) 21:01, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I just added 4 more citations. Kiwima (talk) 21:11, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Einstein2, Kiwima: Thank you both. The 1907, 1922, 2003, and 2004 citations all look good to me. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 21:19, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

apotheon

The eponymous Apotheon created apotheon over ten years ago, which entry has undergone no substantive changes since that time, still bearing now, as it did then, these four senses:

One who is exalted or elevated to a state of godhood.
An individual element of a greater, transcendent whole.
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A scholar of the apotheonic.
An enlightened being.

The OED has no entry for this word, so I request verification of its four putative senses. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 20:31, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I found and added one citation (not nearly enough), but most of what I found was not in English. Kiwima (talk) 21:38, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting that ἀπόθεος (apótheos) is an adjective meaning, "far from the gods, godless". DCDuring TALK 17:49, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

JavaScripted

~15K google hits.

Any noun can get that many hits if appended with "-ed".--Dixtosa (talk) 19:23, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've added three quotations. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 20:31, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFV passed.—msh210℠ (talk) 04:09, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I created this entry, and the word obviously exists, but I am now wondering about the definition (never mind the fact that the RFV was closed in about 24 hours!). The citations seem to mean "accessed via JS" (2005), "implemented in JS" (2011), and "implemented by means of JS" (2012: the video captions). I don't want to see us create a huge number of senses but, to be fair, the word is used in a pretty variable way. Equinox ◑ 04:17, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The fact that such a new word has many definitions is one of the hallmarks of what I would call" immature terms". Those authors that MrGranger cited most probably derived it themselves (knowing how -ed suffix works), rather consciously used it (knowing that this term exists). Looking at Google results I see poor results. Yes, not only the number of hits is problematic, but also that the results are not convincing (note that the first result is Wiktionary).

Maybe I have a controversial opinion about CFI.

Whatever.

BTW, three sources is like a quick and sloppy way of avoiding even longer RFV?.--Dixtosa (talk) 19:33, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Since the wrangling is over the definition not whether the word exists or not, RFV passed sounds right. Renard Migrant (talk) 13:42, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Google hits means nothing per CFI, and the phrase "immature terms" appears on Wiktionary only in your post. The policy that we have agreed upon has been followed here, so there's not need to waste time on a longer RFV.--Prosfilaes (talk) 12:12, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not entirely. The top of the page says: '... after a discussion has been "cited" for more than a week without challenge', in part about closing. I proposed in BP to remove the limitation that a week has to pass between "cited" and "closing", but one user expressed concern. See Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2015/January#RFV - period for closing nominations. Of course, I am perfectly happy with the above closure; waiting a week between "cited" and "closed" seems an overkill. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:20, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. For some reason, I thought the closure has to be a week after discussion ends if we wind up deleting, but closure can be immediate if there are cites.—msh210℠ (talk) 05:16, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sûreté du Québec

I think that government entities ought to fall under WT:COMPANY so I'm requesting three cites for this as a common word. —Internoob 06:02, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe they ought to but I think it's clear enough from the wording at the moment that they don't. But CFI's been voted non-binding so whatever. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:18, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Really? I guess I've been away for too long. I didn't know that CFI was not binding any more. My thinking is that government entities are companies in sense 2 of the word. —Internoob 22:08, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

CFI has not been voted nonbinding. There was a vote on whether certain people's interpretation of CFI should take precedence over consensus in deletion discussions, and the vote didn't pass. That's a very far cry from CFI having been nonbinding. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 22:35, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The vote was to make CFI binding and it failed. The fact that it therefore isn't binding is not only a reasonable interpretation, it fits the facts. If we refuse to delete an entry that doesn't meet CFI, what happens? Who comes in and punishes us? Renard Migrant (talk) 23:03, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Phrasing makes a difference, does not it? You say the they ought to, not that they do, right? You're not even basing the nomination strictly within CFI, as far as I can see. --Dan Polansky (talk) 05:11, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm saying that in my mind, government entities are companies and as such fall under WT:COMPANY. But since CFI doesn't define what it means by "company" it's possible that people will disagree with me. We might have to move to RFD to discuss this, if no one cites it as a common noun. —Internoob 17:17, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep; RFV should be based on WT:ATTEST and not on opinions and stances, unlike RFD. Furthermore, there is no consensual support for WT:COMPANY as per Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2012-02/CFI and company names. I should not be usually posting "keep" in RFV, but I make an exception here because of the nature of the nomination. --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:20, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys! And I, for winking at your discords too, have lost a brace. All are punishèd. —Stephen ^(Talk) 01:06, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per all, including nominator. Renard Migrant (talk) 13:40, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

taja piedboksado

Esperanto for Muay Thai. No results on Google Books, Google Groups, or Tekstaro. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 02:10, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

muaj-tajo

Esperanto for Muay Thai. No results on Google Books, Google Groups, or Tekstaro. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 02:12, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

desklapizar

Ido word with an unknown definition. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 02:21, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

IMO, an entry with no definition and no citations should be deleted, and perhaps added to the Requested Entries page. Equinox ◑ 12:59, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't object. If there's consensus for that, most of the pages in Category:Ido entries needing definition could be deleted. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 14:54, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

klapizar

Ido word with an unknown definition. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 02:22, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

desfatigeskar

Ido word with an unknown definition. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 02:25, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DIP

"Delightfully intelligent person". Equinox ◑ 13:50, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

arnés pene

Is this putative Spanish term defined to mean "strap-on" attested as per WT:ATTEST? google books:"arnés pene" does not look promising. Previously in RFD. --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:25, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

coulomb

"Jewelry: pendant. From the homophone for Coulomb in Russian, кулон." Can't seem to find anything on this. Equinox ◑ 12:57, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you read кулон (kulon) you at least know what it's on about. Looks extremely spurious that a Russian homonym where both are derived from French, that that would create an extra English word. Renard Migrant (talk) 17:34, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Eaglais Chaitliceach Rómhánach

Irish Wikipedia and two Google Books hits with no preview. Nothing on Google Groups. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:01, 28 April 2015 (UTC) I asked an editor of Irish wikipedia, SeoMac, if he could anything, maybe he'll be able to. Please note that although I edited that article, I did not create it.--PaulBustion88 (talk) 07:25, 28 April 2015 (UTC) http://tearma.ie/Search.aspx?term=Eaglais+Chaitliceach+R%C3%B3mh%C3%A1nach&lang=3116659 Here's one source that uses the term. --PaulBustion88 (talk) 15:49, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[97] and [98] are from a print newspaper. Irish is an LDL so this ought to be enough. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 16:44, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What is an LDL?--PaulBustion88 (talk) 17:01, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A limited documentation language—per WT:CFI, limited documentation languages have weaker attestation requirements than well documented languages. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 17:28, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

flower

Something that flows. It’s logically possible and will be easily understood when spoken. I just cannot find a usage. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 10:40, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is used very frequently in cryptic crosswords to mean (deprecated template usage) river. SemperBlotto (talk) 10:43, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. If so, a note may be useful to indicate that it is primarily used in crosswords, not in texts. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 10:49, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'd imagine in that sense, it's a deliberate play on words and in fact uses the word flower (the thing with the petals). Renard Migrant (talk) 15:11, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It's a pun on that sense, but it doesn't mean petalled thing: the Thames isn't one, but could be clued as "flower". (Compare "wicked thing", an old clue for a candle, i.e. it has a wick.) Equinox ◑ 15:23, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's not in Century, which often has obscure senses and citations of their use. "Flower flowed" and "flower that flows" turn up only hits of floral flowers. - -sche (discuss) 05:53, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I can't find an actual use of this sense outside of texts explaining how cryptic crosswords work. Perhaps we should move the explanation to the talk page. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:31, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Does this Etymology merit inclusion? (IMO, No, based on my preliminary efforts.) I tried looking for usage by doing searches including '"real flower" -artificial'. Does anyone have any good ideas for how to find legitimate uses, not mentions? DCDuring TALK 14:59, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've tried several methods with no luck. I can't believe that anyone would use the word in written text because every reader would assume the botanical meaning. SemperBlotto (talk) 15:09, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

google books:"water is a good flower" gets not hits. It's all I can think of in terms of searching. Renard Migrant (talk) 15:12, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It would be used in situations where gusher might be used, I suppose. DCDuring TALK 16:49, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe we should look in corpora of spoken English—since the word is spelled the same as "flower" but pronounced differently, it seems more likely to occur in spoken rather than written English. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 18:45, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I have found several uses of flow-er: [99], [100]. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 10:27, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Good approach to searching for evidence. I would dispute whether the instances are uses rather than mentions. It is interesting that the underlying written literary/translated usage needs commentary. It is also true that spoken usage, though rare, does not need any explanation. DCDuring TALK 13:50, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've found four quotations (with the help of a friend), all of which are translations/glosses of foreign words. I've added them to the entry. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 00:42, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ooh, smart idea, searching for it with speed/motion words! I just tried "rapid flower" and "slow flower" but couldn't find any more relevant hits. - -sche (discuss) 00:59, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you guys for all of your help. I have removed the RFV tag. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 03:46, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

fondant

File:Fondant chocolat noir.JPG

Is this what the "dark chocolate" sense was referring to?

Other dictionaries, including 1913 Webster's, seem to be quite unanimous about the meaning of this word. They say:

flavored sugar preparation, used for icing cakes or as a filling for chocolates.
candy made with this preparation

We have the first of these. Instead of the second, we have these:

Dark chocolate.
A croquette.

Are these real? --Hekaheka (talk) 22:02, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the countable candy sense, a sense related to enamel flux, and a heraldry sense (separate etymology).

One or two dictionaries have an adjective sense.

I don't see any dictionary evidence for the two senses you have challenged, but w:fondant refers to w:Molten chocolate cake, aka chocolate fondant, and to fondant potatoes (no article). These might be the basis for the challenged senses. DCDuring TALK 00:52, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have added some images to the entry and found some others that bear on the challenged senses. DCDuring TALK 01:08, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jesus

Rfv-sense - in Mormonism - the son of Elohim (no such mention in Mormonism-101) SemperBlotto (talk) 08:28, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Mormon teaching that Jesus and Satan are brothers is based on their concept of God being the Father of all pre-existent spirits. Since :Jesus is the son of the Father and all other spirits, including Satan, are sons and daughters of the Father then all are brothers and sisters! This idea has been part of Mormon teaching from the time of Joseph Smith and continues today. Few LDS authorities have been bold enough to plainly state this.

Please note what Mormon prophets and church officials have had to say about the matter. From their writings it is clear that they believed and taught that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers.

Bruce R. McConkie, in his work The Mortal Messiah, Vol.1, Pg.407-408 under the heading " Lucifer and the Law of Temptation" has the following to say;

"Hence, there is -- and must be -- a devil, and he is the father of lies and of wickedness. He and the fallen angels who followed him are spirit children of the Father. As Christ is the Firstborn of the Father in the spirit, so Lucifer is a son of the morning, one of those born in the morning of preexistence. He is a spirit man, a personage, an entity, comparable in form and appearance to any of the spirit children of the Eternal Father. He was the source of opposition among the spirit hosts before the world was made; he rebelled in preexistence against the Father and the Son, and he sought even then to destroy the agency of man. He and his followers were cast down to earth, and they are forever denied mortal bodies. And he, here on earth, along with all who follow him -- both his spirit followers and the mortals who hearken to his enticements -- is continuing the war that commenced in heaven."

Joseph Fielding Smith Jr.,the LDS prophet, wrote in his work, Doctrines of Salvation, Vol.2, Pg.218 -Pg.219

"We learn from the scriptures that Lucifer -- once a son of the morning, who exercised authority in the presence of God before the foundations of this earth were laid -- rebelled against the plan of salvation and against Jesus Christ who was chosen to be the Savior of the world and who is spoken of as the 'Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.'"

In the Discourses of Brigham Young, on Pg.53-54 he lets it be known that Lucifer is the second son, the one known as "Son of the Morning."

"Who will redeem the earth, who will go forth and make the sacrifice for the earth and all things it contains?" The Eldest Son said: "Here am I"; and then he added, "Send me." But the second one, which was "Lucifer, Son of the Morning," said, "Lord, here am I, send me, I will redeem every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that lives on the earth, or that ever goes on the earth."

In the work of Otten & Caldwell, Sacred Truths of the Doctrine & Covenants, Vol.2, Pg.28 it is found that Lucifer rebelled against his "Heavenly Father."

"We also learn that Lucifer ... was in authority..." in the premortal life. (See D&C 76:25) Authority in the presence of God is known to us as priesthood. In other words, Lucifer held the priesthood. We know that Lucifer rebelled against his Heavenly Father. One of the great insights given in this vision was the way this rebellion was manifested."

Through reading John A. Widtsoe's work Evidences and Reconciliations, Pg.209, it is learned that Lucifer strove to gain the birthright of his Elder Brother, Jesus the Christ and became Satan, the enemy of God.

"The story of Lucifer is the most terrible example of such apostasy. Lucifer, son of the morning, through diligent search for truth and the use of it, had become one of the foremost in the assembly of those invited to undertake the experiences of earth. But, in that Great Council, his personal ambition and love of power overcame him. He pitted his own plan and will against the purposes of God. He strove to gain the birthright of his Elder Brother, Jesus the Christ. When his proposition was rejected, he forsook all that he had gained, would not repent of his sin, defied truth, and of necessity lost his place among the followers of God. He was no longer Lucifer, bearer of truth, who walked in light, but Satan, teacher of untruth, who slunk in darkness. He became the enemy of God and of all who try to walk according to the Lord's commandments. One-third of the spirits present in that vast assembly supported Satan and became enemies of the truth that they had formerly cherished. With him these rebellious spirits lost their fellowship with the valiant sons of God. What is more, they lost the privilege of obtaining bodies of flesh and blood, without which they cannot gain full power over the forces of the universe. In the face of that defeat, and that curse, they have sought from Adam to the present time to corrupt mankind and defeat the Lord's purposes."

James E. Talmage in his book, "Jesus the Christ," on Pages 132 & 133, discusses the council that is supposed to have taken place concerning "Free Agency" and the attack on it by Lucifer. He states that Christ may not have remembered the part He had taken in the great council of the "Gods" where the Firstborn Son's plan was chosen and Lucifer, the rebellious and rejected son's plan was refused.

"The effrontery of his offer was of itself diabolical. Christ, the Creator of heaven and earth, tabernacled as He then was in mortal flesh, may not have remembered His preexistent state, nor the part He had taken in the great council of the Gods; while Satan, an unembodied spirit -- he the disinherited, the rebellious and rejected son -- seeking to tempt the Being through whom the world was created by promising Him part of what was wholly His, still may have had, as indeed he may yet have, a remembrance of those primeval scenes. In that distant past, antedating the creation of the earth, Satan, then Lucifer, a son of the morning, had been rejected; and the Firstborn Son had been chosen. Now that the Chosen One was subject to the trials incident to mortality, Satan thought to thwart the divine purpose by making the Son of God subject to himself. He who had been vanquished by Michael and his hosts and cast down as a defeated rebel, asked the embodied Jehovah to worship him. "Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came and ministered unto him."

Neal A. Maxwell, in his book Deposition of a Disciple, on Pages 11 & 12 informs those interested that;

"Lucifer knew about this plan, and his very pleading was real rebellion. The scriptures tell us plainly that he sought a throne above the stars and God. (2 Nephi 24:13.) Therefore, he was from the beginning a serious rebel. President George Q. Cannon said, "He was our brother, sitting side by side with our Redeemer, having equal opportunities with him. But he rebelled. He turned against the Father because he could not have his own way." This council was no abstract exercise. It reflected a deep, deep difference. Lucifer, by what he did, told us much more about himself than about his so-called offer. Clearly, he was already becoming an outsider, using (and trying to profit from) an insider's information."

Sterling W. Sill, writing for the Improvement Era, December 1970, Pg.79 states that the Son of God is Jehovah the warrior.

"We have national holidays to commemorate the birthdays of George Washington, the father of his country, and Abraham Lincoln, who saved it from dissolution. Both were our commanders-in-chief during important wars. Some of our more recent war heroes were John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and our present great commander-in-chief, Richard M. Nixon. We should also keep in mind that the greatest of all military men was the Son of God himself. In the war in heaven, he led the forces of righteousness against the rebellion of Lucifer. We can also draw great significance from the fact that before the Savior of the world was the Prince of Peace, he was Jehovah the warrior."

Joseph Fielding Smith's Gospel Doctrine, on Page 371 states that;

"The devil knows the Father much better than we. Lucifer, the son of the morning, knows Jesus Christ, the Son of God, much better than we; but in him it is not and will not redound to eternal life; for knowing, he yet rebels; knowing, he is yet disobedient; he will not receive the truth; he will not abide in the truth; hence he is perdition, and there is no salvation for him."

Bruce R. McConkie, in his definitive work, Mormon Doctrine, on page 744, says;

"This name-title of Satan (Son of the Morning), indicates he was one of the early born spirit children of the Father. Always used in association with the name Lucifer, son of the morning also apparently signifies son of light or son of prominence, meaning that Satan held a position of power and authority in pre-existence. (D. & C. 76:25-27; Isa. 14:12-20.)"

To plainly state that Jesus (Jehovah) and Lucifer (Satan) are brothers the writings of Spencer W. Kimball, the LDS prophet, must be considered;

Spencer W. Kimball, Conference Report, April 1964, Pg.95

"There is another power in this world forceful and vicious. In the wilderness of Judaea, on the temple's pinnacles and on the high mountain, a momentous contest took place between two brothers, Jehovah and Lucifer, sons of Elohim."

Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle, Pg.87

"There is another power in this world, forceful and vicious. In the wilderness of Judea, on the temple's pinnacle and on the high mountain, a momentous contest took place between two brothers, Jehovah and Lucifer, sons of Elohim. When physically weak from fasting, Christ was tempted by Lucifer: "If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread." (Luke 4:3.) "Similarly Satan had contended for the subservience of Moses. Satan, also a son of God, had rebelled and had been cast out of heaven and not permitted an earthly body as had his brother Jehovah. Much depended upon the outcome of this spectacular duel. Could Lucifer control and dominate this prophet Moses, who had learned so much directly from his Lord?"

Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, Pg.216, The Savior's Example

"The importance of not accommodating temptation in the least degree is underlined by the Savior's example. Did not he recognize the danger when he was on the mountain with his fallen brother, Lucifer, being sorely tempted by that master tempter? He could have opened the door and flirted with danger by Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, Pg.67, AUTHOR OF SALVATION

"Thus when the Father presented his own plan in the pre-existent council, he asked for volunteers from whom he could choose a Redeemer to be born into mortality as the Son of God. Lucifer offered to become the Son of God on condition that the terms of the Father's plan were modified to deny men their agency and to heap inordinate reward upon the one working out the redemption. Christ, on the other hand, accepted the Father's plan in full, saying, "Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever." Our Lord was then foreordained to a mission which in due course he fulfilled, which mission enabled him to make salvation available to all men. (Moses 4:1-4; Abra. 3:22-28.)"

The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Pg.33

"But thank God that there were enough sane and sagacious souls on the side of truth and wisdom and the rebellious souls were vanquished as to the eternal and ultimate program. The principal personalities in this great drama were a Father Elohim, perfect in wisdom, judgment, and person, and two sons, Lucifer and Jehovah. (12/19/59)"

"Satan tempted both Christ and Moses. There is another power in this world forceful and vicious. In the wilderness of Judaea, on the temple's pinnacles and on the high mountain, a momentous contest took place between two brothers, Jehovah and Lucifer, sons of Elohim. When physically weak from fasting, Christ was tempted by Lucifer: "If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread." (Luke 4:3.)"

The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Pg.163

"The importance of not accommodating temptation in the least degree is underlined by the Savior's example. Did not he recognize the danger when he was on the mountain with his fallen brother, Lucifer, being sorely tempted by that master tempter? He could have opened the door and flirted with danger by saying, "All right, Satan, I'll listen to your proposition. I need not succumb, I need not yield, I need not accept -- but I'll listen."http://bible-truth.org/jesusbro.htm

Writing for the LDS periodical Times and Seasons, W.W. Phelps stated:

"And again, we exclaim, O Mormonism! No wonder that Lucifer, son of the morning, the next heir to Jesus Christ, our eldest brother, should fight so hard against his brethren; he lost the glory, the honor, power, and dominion of a God: and the knowledge, spirit, authority and keys of the priesthood of the son of God!" (Times and Seasons, 5:758)

Seventy Joseph Young (brother of Brigham Young):

"Who is it that is at the head of this? It is the Devil, the mighty Lucifer, the great prince of the angels, and the brother of Jesus." (Journal of Discourses 6:207).

Mormon Apostle James Talmage:

"Christ, the Creator of heaven and earth, tabernacled as He then was in mortal flesh, may not have remembered His preexistent state, nor the part He had taken in the great council of the Gods; while Satan, an unembodied spirit—he the disinherited, the rebellious and rejected son—seeking to tempt the Being through whom the world was created by promising Him part of what was wholly His, still may have had, as indeed he may yet have, a remembrance of those primeval scenes." (James Talmage, Jesus the Christ, p.132)

Mormon Apostle John A. Widtsoe:

"The story of Lucifer is the most terrible example of such apostasy. Lucifer, son of the morning, through diligent search for truth and the use of it, had become one of the foremost in the assembly of those invited to undertake the experiences of earth. But, in that Great Council, his personal ambition and love of power overcame him. He pitted his own plan and will against the purposes of God. He strove to gain the birthright of his Elder Brother, Jesus the Christ" (John A. Widtsoe, Evidences and Reconciliations, p.209). http://www.mrm.org/lucifers-brother --PaulBustion88 (talk) 08:36, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

TL;DR - where in all that does it mention that (deprecated template usage) Jesus is the son of (deprecated template usage) Elohim. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:41, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

One of the more curious evolutions in Mormon theology is that of God. Any active member of the LDS faith will now tell you that Jehovah of the Old Testament was in fact Jesus and the father of this Jehovah-Jesus is God or Elohim. In fact, a recent proclamation confirms this changed belief. Both of these supposed beings have bodies. When this same Mormon begins to read some of the writings of the early church leaders (including the first edition of the Book of Mormon) they are generally surprised to find out that this wasn't always the doctrine of the church.http://www.lds-mormon.com/godsname.shtml It says it in this quote. The Mormon Jesus is a different entity from the Roman Catholic Jesus. The Mormon Jesus was produced by sexual intercourse between Elohim and a woman. He also fought a battle against his brother Lucifer. --PaulBustion88 (talk) 08:45, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, in what I had above, there was ""There is another power in this world forceful and vicious. In the wilderness of Judaea, on the temple's pinnacles and on the high mountain, a momentous contest took place between two brothers, Jehovah and Lucifer, sons of Elohim." Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle, Pg.87 When I went to college I took a class about Mormonism, the teacher was a Mormon, and he said that in the Mormon religion, Jesus is the same entity as Jehovah. Jehovah/Jesus is the son of Elohim. --PaulBustion88 (talk) 08:54, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

is this a distinct sense, i.e. it does not refer to Jesus or Nazareth? Because if it does, it's just a redundant definition to sense #1. Renard Migrant (talk) 15:08, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Jesus of Mormonism is synonymous with Jehovah, is the son of Elohim, was born through sexual intercourse between Elohim and a woman, is the spirit brother of Lucifer, is not a deity, and has a ton of other differences from the Christian Jesus. Bill Keller has stated, "if you understand Mormon theology, the God and Jesus of Mormonism is not the God and Jesus of the Bible." So its not redundant.--PaulBustion88 (talk) 16:53, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify: Do Mormons believe that Jesus of Nazareth was not Jesus? —CodeCa t 18:07, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

They believe in a Jesus who married, had children, moved to North America, etc. He's more like "Jesus of The Da Vinci Code" than Jesus of Nazareth. --PaulBustion88 (talk) 18:13, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Mormons use the words 'god' and 'jesus,' yet the god and jesus of the Mormon cult are NOT the God and Jesus of the Bible! " Bill Keller, a pastor from Florida, has stated this. I think Bill Keller is a bigot, and intolerant, but he's correct about this issue. It would be like calling Sigmund Freud or Buddha or George Bush Jesus and saying that because we gave him that name he's Jesus of Nazareth and we don't need to separate from the real Jesus.http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/7816717980.html And actually Keller is wrong that Mormonism is no more Christian than Islam, its more different from Christianity than Islam is. Muslims believe Jesus of Nazareth was a prophet, they believe in the same Jesus, Mormons have a completely different Jesus.--PaulBustion88 (talk) 18:31, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

All kinds of different religions and sects have a different idea of who Jesus was. The point is that they all fall under the first definition referring to the person Jesus of Nazareth. We don't want to include a different definition for each of who Dan Brown, Nestorius, Mohammad, Bishop Spong, Joseph Smith etc. thinks Jesus was. —Internoob 18:41, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Lucifer of Mormonism is different from the Lucifer of Christianity, "(chiefly Mormonism) One of the literal sons of Elohim and Heavenly Mother; and a spirit-brother of Jesus/Jehovah."https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lucifer#English thus getting his own definition on wiktionary. If the Mormon Lucifer gets a separate definition from the Christian Lucifer, why should not the Mormon Jesus get a different definition from the Christian Jesus?--PaulBustion88 (talk) 19:11, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As Internoob says, Mormons have a different idea of who Jesus (sense 1) was, but that doesn't seem to be a separate sense: Caesar the military leader referred to in texts about military history is not different from Caesar the statesman referred to in Shakespeare's play. The separate, problematic sense of Lucifer, added in diff by the same contributor who added e.g. this, seems like it should also be removed. - -sche (discuss) 19:36, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If I talked about Sigmund Freud, and said he was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in the year 2004, then I'm not talking about Sigmund Freud, I'm talking about John Kerry. When you change the meaning of the name Jesus as much as the Mormons do, you're not even talking about Jesus of Nazareth, he's not even Dan Brown's Jesus, because the Mormon Jesus was a polygamist who immigrated to America and lead Native American tribes. He's not even the same person.--PaulBustion88 (talk) 19:50, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought, the Jesus of Mormonism is the same person as the Jesus of Christianity, he just is not allowed the same claim to divinity. Also, if we had to add the Mormon Jesus, then we'd also have to add the Muslim Jesus, the Christian Science Jesus, the Jehovah's Witness Jesus, the Nation of Islam Jesus, the Quaker Jesus, and all the other Jesuses that are figures in non-Christian religions (like Islam) or Christian descended non-Christian cults (like Mormonism), and the entry would go on forever. So I was wrong about this one, and I will defer to the consensus not to include the Mormon Jesus in the Jesus entry. I've already taken the Mormon Jesus out, https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php? --PaulBustion88 (talk) 05:25, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

اوبازي

@Adjutor101: nominated this page for speedy deletion, but I hesitated to do so because I think the issue should be brought to RFV. The reason that was given was "This is a Dari word and not present in Pashto [used in creole speech] but not recognised as Pashto see Pashto Academy Research Paper 2005. Also check word لامبو". —Internoob 22:35, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A self-designated Pashtun created it, so I suspect it is legitimate, just not prescriptively legitimate. Unfortunately, Pashto has a really low literacy rate and it will be hard to find sources. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 01:55, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is one of the most authentic Pashto dictionaries: http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?dbname=raverty&query=%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%8A&matchtype=exact&display=utf8. As you can see it is not mentioned here. The word is 100% Dari and not Pashto. I can add لامبو instead, if permission is granted Adjutor101 (talk) 07:31, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

But you said it's not 100% Dari and not Pashto by saying it's used in creole speech. It certainly strikes me as one of those cases that would give us arguments and headaches in English, and will probably be resolved in Pashto by a simple lack of evidence.--Prosfilaes (talk) 22:56, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just remember that we're a descriptive dictionary based on usage, not a prescriptive dictionary based on authoritative sources. If Pashto speakers use a term as a Pashto term, we consider it a Pashto term. If authoritative sources consider it wrong, we label it as "proscribed", and we might provide more information in a usage note- but we have to maintain a neutral point of view in our explanations. Most languages that are under pressure from other languages go through a period of trying to banish foreignisms in order to "purify" the language- understandable, but not something we can subscribe to. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:59, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, from the wording above, it sounds like the w:No true Scotsman fallacy may be at play here: "that word isn't used in Pashto, because no one using it is speaking true Pashto". Chuck Entz (talk) 00:05, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(Reverted my own previous comment about the wrong letter, this letter IS used in Pashto but not Dari). According to this link it's a Pashto word. Besides, letter ي is apparently used in Arabic and Pashto but not in any variety of Persian, including Dari. Pashto has a less developed written tradition and low literacy, so it may be a "recommended" word, which is hard to attest. I wouldn't delete, since it was added by a native Pashto speaker. Even if we can't find attestations, it may be used in speech and this is just a written form of what is used by Pashto speakers? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:54, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To respected @Atitarev:, respected @Chuck Entz: and to respected @Prosfilaes: I think the user that added it was probably not a Pashtun [judging from the use of Avestan, was likely a Parsi and motivated by the belief that Pashto is descended from Avestan]. Most Pashtuns come from rural areas apart from Kandahar and Jalalabad. People in Kabul and Peshawar are not ethnic Pashtuns most of the time and when they speak Pashto they use the vocab and grammar of their native languages such as Urdu, Dari/Farsi, Hindko, Pahari, Gujri etc We can include words from all different languages in Pashto over here but ultimately it harms the credibility of Wiktionary as an authoritative source on Pashto which have been hoping to achieve. Adjutor101 (talk) 07:50, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

millénaithe

Norman, by Embryomystic. --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:58, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

syiclle

Norman, by Embryomystic. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:00, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ambidêtri

Norman, by Embryomystic. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:02, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

dêtriéthe

Norman, by Embryomystic. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:03, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

gaûchet

Norman, by Embryomystic. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:04, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

pônchet

Norman, by Embryomystic. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:06, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

titchets

Norman, by Embryomystic. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:07, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

erythrophobia

"Abnormal and persistent fear of the colour red". Not the blushing phobia sense, which is real. I doubt this one exists, though an anon seems keen to keep re-adding it. Equinox ◑ 15:53, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've added three quotations. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 19:41, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first two seem to be mentions (they define the term as they use it) and the third seems to be jocular. I would probably delete the sense. SemperBlotto (talk) 14:36, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think defining a term as you use it demotes it to a mention. It's still a use, just a use that doesn't presume the reader is familiar with the term. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 14:50, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. WT:CFI gives "They raised the jib (a small sail forward of the mainsail) in order to get the most out of the light wind" as an example of an acceptable citation (a use rather than a mention). And a humorous use is still a use. In any case, I've added three more quotations. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 17:49, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

pedophilia

Please note the four senses were removed prior to my request for verification. The senses which I refer to in this request are found in this revision dated 01:10, 5 May 2015.

They are:

sense 4— (countable, crime) A sex offense committed against a child.
sense 5— A sexual orientation.
sense 6— (epidemiology, psychiatry) A World Health Organization clinical diagnostic classification of some pedophilia; a disorder of sexual preference.
sense 7— (psychiatry, outmoded) An American Psychiatric Association clinical diagnostic classification of some pedophilia.

Each usage is attested on Citations:pedophilia, Citations:paedophilia, or Citations:paidophilia.

The term has multiple overlapping senses: pedophilia is the label of a crime, which is also the label of a sexual orientation (a biological sense), which is also the label of a psychiatric condition, which is also the label of a desire, which is also the label of behavior, which is also the label of a cultural custom.

sense 4 was removed by Equinox with edit summary and the fact that it's an offence (like burglary) isn't a separate sense of the WORD. burglary as an offence is not a separate MEANING of burglary.

The behavior is a crime in many cultures, but is not a crime in some cultures.

sense 5 was removed by Equinox with edit summary "orientation" not distinct from "feelings". it's absurd to give this word 5 senses

The attested usages show that this sense is a distinct from a feeling or a desire, and "many experts view it as a sexual orientation as immutable as heterosexuality or homosexuality." It is in that sense biological and not behavioral.

sense 6 was removed by PaulBustion88 with edit summary "A sexual preference for children, boys or girls or both, usually of prepubertal or early pubertal age." Again, redundant to definition, diagnosis of a "sexual attraction primarily or exclusively to prepubescent children"

As I commented on the talk page

sense 2— (medicine, more strictly) Mental disorder in which an adult or adolescent aged 16 years or older is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted to prepubescent children. That is distinguished from sense 6. The quote attesting usage of sense 6: Paedophilia is defined as a mental disorder within the International Classification of Diseases ICD-10 […] Contrary to any medical model of a diagnosis, however, such classification offers no understanding of aetiology and no indication of prognosis or grounds for treatment., is clear that sense 6, about a typological category, is not equivalent but Contrary to any medical model of a diagnosis.

sense 7 was removed by PaulBustion88 with edit summary Sense 7 is definitely redundant to sense 2. The American Psychiatric Association's definition of pedophilia has always been more or less the same as sense 2

I included a usage note that In 2013, the term pedophilia was outmoded and replaced with the term pedophilic disorder by the American Psychiatric Association in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, edition 5 (DSM-5). As I commented on the talk page, That change in language is clearly an important aspect about this term.

I also commented on my understanding of sense 2, sense 5, sense 6, sense 7 on entry talk page (diff). Please take the time to read through the attestations. I spend a lot of time to gather them, and believe they show a fair and balanced range of 21st c. usage of this term. —BoBoMisiu (talk) 18:59, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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 ::: I don't think defining a term as you use it demotes it to a mention. It's still a use, just a use that doesn't presume the reader is familiar with the term. —[[User:Angr|Aɴɢʀ]] ([[User talk:Angr|''talk'']]) 14:50, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 :::: I agree. [[WT:CFI]] gives "They raised the jib (a small sail forward of the mainsail) in order to get the most out of the light wind" as an example of an acceptable citation (a use rather than a mention). And a humorous use is still a use. In any case, I've added three more quotations. —[[User:Mr. Granger|Mr. Granger]] ([[User talk:Mr. Granger|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Mr. Granger|contribs]]) 17:49, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
+== pedophilia ==
+Please note the four senses were removed prior to my request for verification. The senses which I refer to in this request are found {{revision|32791378|in this revision}} dated 01:10, 5 May 2015.
+They are:
+*<small style="color:gray;">sense 4—</small>&nbsp;(countable, crime) A sex offense committed against a child.
+*<small style="color:gray;">sense 5—</small>&nbsp;A sexual orientation.
+*<small style="color:gray;">sense 6—</small>&nbsp;(epidemiology, psychiatry) A World Health Organization clinical diagnostic classification of some pedophilia; a disorder of sexual preference.
+*<small style="color:gray;">sense 7—</small>&nbsp;(psychiatry, outmoded) An American Psychiatric Association clinical diagnostic classification of some pedophilia.
+Each usage is attested on [[Citations:pedophilia]], [[Citations:paedophilia]], or [[Citations:paidophilia]].
+The term has multiple overlapping senses: {{m|en|pedophilia}} is the label of a crime, which is also the label of a sexual orientation (a biological sense), which is also the label of a psychiatric condition, which is also the label of a desire, which is also the label of behavior, which is also the label of a cultural custom.
+*<small style="color:gray;">sense 4</small>&nbsp;was removed by [[User:Equinox|Equinox]] with edit summary  <q style="color:teal">&thinsp;and the fact that it's an offence (like burglary) isn't a separate sense of the WORD. burglary as an offence is not a separate MEANING of burglary.&thinsp;</q>
+::The behavior <em>is</em> a crime in many cultures, but <em>is not</em> a crime in some cultures.
+*<small style="color:gray;">sense 5</small>&nbsp;was removed by [[User:Equinox|Equinox]] with edit summary <q style="color:teal">&thinsp;"orientation" not distinct from "feelings". it's absurd to give this word 5 senses&thinsp;</q>
+::The attested usages show that this sense is a distinct from a feeling or a desire, and "many experts view it as a sexual orientation as immutable as heterosexuality or homosexuality." It is in that sense biological and not behavioral.
+*<small style="color:gray;">sense 6</small>&nbsp;was removed by [[User:PaulBustion88|PaulBustion88]] with edit summary <q style="color:teal">&thinsp;"A sexual preference for children, boys or girls or both, usually of prepubertal or early pubertal age." Again, redundant to definition, diagnosis of a "sexual attraction primarily or exclusively to prepubescent children"&thinsp;</q>
+::As {{diff|32792278|32792769|I commented on the talk page}} <blockquote style="background-color:#eaf8f4; border-left:3px solid #008560; padding:0 .8em; margin:0;"><small style="color:gray;">sense 2—</small>&nbsp;<q style="color:teal">(medicine, more strictly) Mental disorder in which an adult or adolescent aged 16 years or older is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted to prepubescent children.</q> That is distinguished from <small style="color:gray;">sense 6</small>. The quote attesting usage of <small style="color:gray;">sense 6</small>: <q style="color:navy">Paedophilia is defined as a mental disorder within the International Classification of Diseases ICD-10 […] Contrary to any medical model of a diagnosis, however, such classification offers no understanding of aetiology and no indication of prognosis or grounds for treatment.</q>, is clear that <small style="color:gray;">sense 6</small>, about a typological category, is not equivalent but <q style="color:navy">Contrary to any medical model of a diagnosis</q>.</blockquote>
+*<small style="color:gray;">sense 7</small>&nbsp;was removed by [[User:PaulBustion88|PaulBustion88]] with edit summary <q style="color:teal">&thinsp;Sense 7 is definitely redundant to sense 2. The American Psychiatric Association's definition of pedophilia has always been more or less the same as sense 2&thinsp;</q>
+::I included a usage note that <q style="color:teal">In 2013, the term ''pedophilia'' was outmoded and replaced with the term {{m|en|pedophilic disorder|id=dsm5}} by the American Psychiatric Association in ''{{w|Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders}}'', edition 5 (DSM-5).</q> As {{diff|32792278|32792769|I commented on the talk page}}, <q style="color:teal">That change in language is clearly an important aspect about this term.</q>
+I also commented on my understanding of <small style="color:gray;">sense 2</small>, <small style="color:gray;">sense 5</small>, <small style="color:gray;">sense 6</small>, <small style="color:gray;">sense 7</small> on [[Talk:pedophilia#Diagnostic classification within two systems|entry talk page]] ({{diff|32792278|32792769}}). Please take the time to read through the attestations. I spend a lot of time to gather them, and believe they show a fair and balanced range of 21st c. usage of this term. —[[User:BoBoMisiu|BoBoMisiu]] ([[User talk:BoBoMisiu|talk]]) 18:59, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

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Requests for cleanup add new \| history \| archives Cleanup requests, questions and discussions.	Requests for verification/English add new English request \| history \| archives Requests for verification in the form of durably-archived attestations conveying the meaning of the term in question.	Requests for verification/CJK add new CJK request \| history Requests for verification of entries in Chinese, Japanese, Korean or any other language using an East Asian script.	Requests for verification/Italic add new Italic request \| history Requests for verification of Italic-language entries.	Requests for verification/Non-English add new non-English request \| history \| archives Requests for verification of any other non-English entries.	Requests for deletion/Others add new \| history Requests for deletion and undeletion of pages in other (not the main) namespaces, such as categories, appendices and templates.
Requests for moves, mergers and splits add new \| history \| archives Moves, mergers and splits; requests listings, questions and discussions.	Requests for deletion/English add new English request \| history \| archives Requests for deletion of pages in the main namespace due to policy violations; also for undeletion requests.	Requests for deletion/CJK add new CJK request \| history Requests for deletion and undeletion of entries in Chinese, Japanese, Korean or any other language using an East Asian script.	Requests for deletion/Italic add new Italic request \| history Requests for deletion and undeletion of Italic-language entries.	Requests for deletion/Non-English add new non-English request \| history \| archives Requests for deletion and undeletion of any other non-English entries.	Requests for deletion/Reconstruction add new reconstruction request \| history Requests for deletion and undeletion of reconstructed entries.
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