User talk:MrsKrishan
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Curating my contributions[edit]
(Subsequent reductions/redactions not tracked: I trust the process, if worthy of inclusion hopefully content persists)
- 1 April 2013 periphrastic (→ added poem quote)
- That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory/ A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings." T. S. Eliot, East Coker
- 7 October 2014 onlus (→ added Alternative forms)
- supplied acronym "organizzazione non lucrativa di utilità sociale" loosely translated as non-profit organisation for social benefit
- and reference ( forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=915629 )
- 3 December 2014 schlecht (→ added external link to online Deutsches Wörterbuch)
- von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm - an exhaustive etymology giving historical literary examples of inversion from positive to negative meaning in centuries since the Renaissance at
- woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB
- (Berlin Brandenburg Akadamie der Wissenschaft zu Gottingen © 1998—2014,
- Trier Center for Digital Humanities)
- 21 November 2014 handsome is as handsome does (→ added poem quote)
- c. 1405–1410., Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath's Tale, line 1170
- "Thenketh how noble, as seith Valerius \ Was thilke Tullius Hostilius, \ That out of povert roos to heigh noblesse \ Redeth Senek, and redeth eek Boëce, \ Ther shul ye seen expres that it no drede is, \ That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis"
- April 13 2015 nērebu (in Syriac) (→ updated non-functioning URL)
- lemme "n)rb" in the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon reference under Syriac entry ܢܐܪܒܐ n-a-r-b-a "chasm, abyss" from Akkadian nērebu http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%DC%A2%DC%90%DC%AA%DC%92%DC%90#References to functioning lemma "n)rb)"
- 9 October 2015 Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lice (→ extended etymology)
- added pIE-linked words in German, Polish, Maltese, Arabic
- Compare Antlitz from Middle High German antlitze, from Old High German antlizzi, and Polish oblicze ("countenance, face").
- Phonetically similar Maltese wiċċ ("face") from Arabic وَجْه 'wajh' ("face").
- 19 December 2015
- talisman (→See also: added Thaali Indian talisman)
- hetman (→See also: added hegumen)
- hegumen (→See also: added hetman)
- 1 June 2016
- caleo (→ added etymology)
- See Proto-Indo-European roots/ḱ at Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ḱel-.
- Appendix talk:List of Proto-Indo-European roots/ḱ (→ query re: Persian sard)
- under kel- incongruent inclusion of antonym (cold) of سرد#Persian? Correct entry would be as *gel- related to 'gelati' (ie frozen temperatures not cauldron scalding hot ones
- سرخ(→ expanded definition)
- 9 January 2017
- Aletha (→ expanded etymology)
- added 3 references for derivations from Greek ἀλήθεια, Aletiea (or Althea), meaning "speaker of truth", "one who speaks truth".
- tęcza (→ expanded etymology)
- Polish for 'rainbow' derived from ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon, “bow”), whence tangent (homophone).
- 22 January 2017 mucilage (→ expanded etymology)
- See Greek μούχλα (moúchla) meaning mold, and related derivatives mushroom from Proto-Indo-European *meus- (“mosses, mold, mildew”).
- 25 January 2017 venera (→ expanded definition)
- added references for
- 2. A type of jewel worn in Spain, including the badges of the Spanish religious confraternities worn by members throughout the 17th century
- ^ An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry Author: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson
- 3. A type of dessert from Asturias, similar to Linzertorte with rings of marzipan-enriched dough formed to resemble scalloped edges
- ^ Spanish Wikipedia has an article on Venera pastry
- 2. A type of jewel worn in Spain, including the badges of the Spanish religious confraternities worn by members throughout the 17th century
- 31 January 2017 metal (→ extended etymology)
- with Bronze-age associations for pre-Greek origin (see Mycenae > proto-slavic *medz > Sanskrit mas > Medes Media) MrsKrishan (talk) 15:18, 31 January 2017 (UTC)