Talk:denominative

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@Dan Polansky: I naively though the situation was the same as for deverbative/deverbal (Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2017/June § Deverbative or deverbal?); sorry for misusing the label "rare". I don't see the point of duplicating the translation tables however. --Per utramque cavernam 10:00, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mistakes happen => let's correct things and move on. As a general note, let's not invent things and let's check sources and data as far as possible.
denominal,denominative at Google Ngram Viewer shows denominal taking a lead only recently, and the lead is not huge. Therefore, I think the translation table is well placed in denominative. But I admit that centralizing it at denominal would be okay, since the lead is there. The question is where to put more weight, whether on rather recent history or on the very long-term massive lead of denominative. As a general note on centralization, let's not obssess over it; a certain degree of duplication is advisable. On the other hand, I agree that certain degree of centralization of translation tables is not amiss. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:16, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]