Talk:-cele

RFC discussion: May 2017–June 2018

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-cele, -coel

-coele; category 1, category 2

Following Wiktionary:Tea room/2017/May#-cele_-coele_-coel_suffices, Kwataswagri and I edited these entries to more clearly distinguish the two suffixes, one from κήλη and one from κοῖλος. Entries which end in these suffixes probably need to be checked to see if they're linking to the right one. Any words which more commonly use the "wrong" suffix would be interesting to find. - -sche (discuss) 05:59, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

OK, I checked all the derived terms, and they are all formed as expected, except blastocele, pseudocele and schizocele (cavities using the tumor/hernia suffix), and possibly laryngocele and ureterocele. - -sche (discuss) 21:10, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

And of those first three -celes, -coel seems to be more common and more standard in each case. Whereas, laryngocele and ureterocele are apparently the most common spellings of those words, with -coele less common in Ngram Viewer and -coel not showing up. This issue may be resolved at this point, but confusion and entries with the "wrong" suffixes will probably re-arise in the future. - -sche (discuss) 05:54, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

I've added -coele and the "derived terms" categories to the header so that pointers will be left on their talk pages, too, when this is archived (by aWa). - -sche (discuss) 06:02, 19 June 2018 (UTC)