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You've been making quite a few basic mistakes: never create a new entry or a new language section without a headword template (see WT:EL), {{bor}} is only used once in an etymology, for the final borrowing into the language of the entry- everything further back in the chain of derivation uses {{der}}; the first language code in an etymology template is the language of the entry; never use Google Translate as a source- it's basically a combination of machine-learning algorithms; we also don't use wikis like Wikipedias and other Wiktionaries as sources, and, finally, your last edit, to katte, obliterated the entries for 7 different languages that were on the page. And that's just what I found in about 10 minutes of going through your edits.I know you mean well, but you're leaving a lot of damage for others to clean up. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:55, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Unreliable

Hello. Please don't copy stuff from unreliable websites like palaeolexicon.com and wikipedia.org. Vahag (talk) 09:23, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Etymologies

Hi - changes like this are not helpful: "mong" is not a word in any of the languages involved (it's in the wrong script, and it's not clear what language it's supposed to be anyway), and it shouldn't be an external link. I also see no evidence that we can trace it back to Middle Chinese or Mandarin, when Classical Mongolian ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ (moŋɣol) explains the word much more directly, which comes from Middle Mongol. Theknightwho (talk) 23:58, 14 June 2023 (UTC)