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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Vealhurl (talk) 12:00, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Validity of "archaic" label on Maltese[edit]

Hi! I don't speak Maltese, but I do see that a lot of your old entries on North Levantine Arabic made, to put it bluntly, rather false or poorly informed assertions. Not to be too on-the-nose, but in the same vein I'd just like to make sure that your labeling of the pharyngeal-ish pronunciations in Maltese as "archaic" rather than, say, "dialectal" or "regional" truly is well-founded — because every cursory source on Maltese I see indicates that plenty of less-urban varieties can be more conservative than the standard, though I myself don't know whether this includes the specific feature you label as archaic. M. I. Wright (talk) 18:31, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why in the world from Spanish[edit]

You should look into Category:Sicilian terms derived from Spanish. There are many basic words in it, very fishy 37 entries for 1,082 Sicilian lemmas, hardly half of it is true, while Category:Sicilian terms derived from Catalan has two entries. But I have not studied that language area, hence I refrain to make assumptions. Fay Freak (talk) 23:56, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

kiesaħ[edit]

I don't agree with etymology. It likely derives from قاسح which means "hard". Fenakhay (talk) 15:51, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Fenakhay Thanks. A rare word in standard Arabic, so I'd never heard it, but you're quite right. That must be the same as the Tunisian Arabic كاسح meaning "hard", which is thus not derived from "paralysed", but from your word. I'll add that. It doesn't have any bearing on the question whether the sense "cold" is from "hard" or "blustering", though. Or have you ever heard قاسح used in any context to do with coldness specifically? 178.4.151.74 16:04, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
We use قاسح in Morocco to mean "hard". And it is used with the word برد to mean "very cold weather"; البرد القاسح. Fenakhay (talk) 16:10, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Fenakhay Okay. That's relevant. I'd already edited, but I'll change it again. 178.4.151.74 16:12, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]



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