User talk:Nastoshka

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Belarusian і

Hello. The letter и isn't used in Belarusian! It's і. Thus the right entry title is калі (kali). --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 00:22, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Per utramque cavernam Of course you're right and actually I know, that there is no <и> in Belarusian, so it was stupid of me. I edited the Ukr. коли (koly) and just copied the code. Thank you for your edits! :( --Nastoshka (talk) 00:32, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Czech entries

Greetings, FYI, I made some changes in uplácet and bezstarostnost. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:38, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

rozvážný

Greetings, what is your source of the etymology "roz- + vážný" that you have entered into rozvážný? I find the etymology implausible. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:41, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

@Dan Polansky Ahoj and thanks for your edits. Just a couple of questions/answers (I've edited a lot on other projects and other wiktionaries but I'm new here):

1. Can you explain me why you moved the sources from "References" to "Further reading"? Even though I speak Czech, as a non-native I usually check/copy many informations, expecially the grammatical ones, from the dictionaries and works I list in "References", so that it was really meant to be references and not recommendations of further places to look.

2. As far as I know the word listed in the section "Synonyms" here "have similar meanings as the word being defined", which is the en.wiktionary definition for the section "Synonyms". Why did you move them into "See also"? I've always seen this section used for words which are somehow related to the lemma being defined (see please barva, Měsíc#See also, tečka, singular and many many others).

3. For etymology of rozvážný you're right, I was inaccurate; what I made it's just the morphological division. Rozvážný comes actually from rozvážit si, which together with many other czech verbs comes ultimatively from váha as you can read in Václav Machek, Etymologický slovník jazyka českého, 1957 under the lemma "váha". Best regards --Nastoshka (talk) 19:01, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

WT:CFI mandates that senses be attested via quotations of actual use, not sourced from references, as per WT:ATTEST. That is why we use "Further reading" in Czech entries.

I try to reserve synonyms for true synonyms, not for words that are merely similar in meaning. The particular words did not feel like true synonyms. "See also" is generic enough to be able to contain near-synonyms. I admit that this is open to discussion and not everyone may agree.

--Dan Polansky (talk) 19:06, 10 March 2018 (UTC)