User:Word dewd544

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Introduction

Hi, I'm a Wiktionary editor particularly interested in etymology and linguistic evolution, and focus mostly on Romance languages, along with some other Indo-European languages. I'm in the U.S., with background in Romania, Greece, and Italy.

To do list

• Finally made a user page after six years.
• Add most of the basic lexicon for major Romance languages- mostly done (finished adding Friulian, known Dalmatian, Istriot, and Latin part of Aromanian, as well as Romanian).
• Worked on some Albanian terms of Latin origin or ones with cognates in Romanian.
• Add translations for several basic Romance words.
• Work on ensuring a consistent set of etymologies in the chain from modern languages to Proto-Indo-European reconstructions- sort of a side project.
• Adding related/derived terms to English entries, especially those taken from French/Latin.
• Sort (mostly Romance) entries out by inherited versus borrowed following the policy enactment. May take quite a while. Less than halfway done. Looking at a couple thousand more entries... sigh. I am mainly focusing on the inherited cores of each language, as opposed to the greater amounts of later borrowings, which other people can maybe address.
• Sort out some Germanic and Slavic language etymologies.
• Maybe work on some Vulgar Latin reconstructed forms at some point.
• Working on Greek etymologies if they are not done

The big Romance languages I have been working on:

• [Catalan terms inherited from Latin]
• [French terms inherited from Latin]
• [Italian terms inherited from Latin]
• [Portuguese terms inherited from Latin]
• [Romanian terms inherited from Latin]
• [Spanish terms inherited from Latin]

Some other smaller ones I have been adding to as well:

• [Aromanian terms inherited from Latin]
• [Friulian terms inherited from Latin]
• [Dalmatian terms inherited from Latin]
• [Sicilian terms inherited from Latin]
• [Occitan terms inherited from Latin]
• [Romansch terms inherited from Latin]
• [Venetian terms inherited from Latin]
• [Asturian terms inherited from Latin]
• [Galician terms inherited from Latin]
• [Walloon terms inherited from Latin]
• [Norman terms inherited from Latin]
• [Sardinian terms inherited from Latin]
• [Istriot terms inherited from Latin]
• [Franco-Provencal terms inherited from Latin]
• [Neapolitan terms inherited from Latin]
• [Albanian terms derived from Latin]
• [Welsh terms derived from Latin]