Template:etymid
- The following documentation is located at Template:etymid/documentation. [edit]
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This template is like {{senseid}} (which see for more), but meant to be used for specific etymologies rather than specific senses.
Hypothetical example:
===Etymology 1===
{{etymid|en|structure}}
From {{inh|en|enm|hous}}, {{m|enm|hus}}...
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IDs
IDs should be unique for each invocation of either {{senseid}} or {{etymid}} per language section (page and language). There are different conventions for IDs: some use one of the common definitions for a term (often reduced down to a single word), some use Wikidata IDs (which often work well for simple nouns), while other use longer IDs to reduce chances of ambiguity.
One convention
When creating an etymid, please use a character string that allows a nearby part-of-speech sense to have a different ID string, so that links can point to either target unambiguously.
As explained at {{senseid}}, a Wikidata ID often makes a good senseid for a typical noun. The etymology of that noun can then naturally take another string.
When creating an etymid, one might wonder how to choose a value (a string) that is wisely chosen. A suggestion for how to decide what to call (how to name) an etymology is "from WHATEVER-referent origins", where WHATEVER equals a core concept that the word roots or their ancestral antecedents referred to. If the origin is "probably from" (or "possibly from" or "perhaps from") rather than "[known to be] from", then the relevant qualifying word (such as "probably") can apply before "from". An example can be seen at bun; you can search for "etymid" inside the wikitext source to see the names given there.