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I know you mean well, but you need to look at the documentation for {{der}}, {{inh}}, {{bor}}, stop using {{etyl}}, look at WT:LOL and WT:LOLS, and reconsider the way you're doing etymologies. To start with, wikis aren't sources, so it's wrong to say "wiktionary says" in an etymology- not to mention absolutely silly: you're making Wiktionary cite itself as a source. As for Pokorny: I used that reference 3 decades ago when I was at UCLA, and even then it was decades out of date. Besides, you need to know the history of the languages you're giving etymologies for in order to interpret the reference works. Overlooking little details like the thousand years between the origin of a word and the emergence of the language you say it came from is definitely going to get you into big trouble, etymologically speaking. You shouldn't try to connect the dots until you know what all the dots are, and learn a lot more about the science of dot-connecting. Please be more careful. Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 08:11, 16 December 2019 (UTC)