User talk:ماني
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Again, welcome! -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 12:53, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
I've undone your edit to this entry, and I thought I'd take a second to explain why. First off, we generally prefer to restrict ourselves to ancient cognates for ancient languages, such as Ancient Greek. We do make an exception for English, as this is the English Wiktionary. Also, I tend to prefer to limit the number of cognates to three or four, with Sanskrit, Latin, Old Armenian, and Old English being my preferred cognates for Ancient Greek, when possible. Persian just isn't really appropriate in this case. However, I suspect Persian cognates would be quite welcome on Indo-Iranian entries, such as Pashto, Kurdish, etc. I hope this won't prevent you from further contributions, as we can certainly use folks with etymological and/or Persian backgrounds. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions or concerns. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 12:53, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
- Hi. I agree with the ancient cognates argument, and will contribute with Old Persian cognates in the future.--ماني (talk) 09:23, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
- Excellent. I look forward to them. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 11:37, 13 April 2012 (UTC)