Wiktionary:About Kashubian

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Kashubian is a West-Slavic language spoken in the northern region of Kashubia in Poland. This page depicts the current practices regarding Kashubian entries in Wiktionary.

Headword

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Some Kashubian parts of speech have their own designated headword-line templates, which should precede the definition:

  • Nouns have {{csb-noun}}, where the gender and animacy of the noun should be provided.
  • Proper nouns have {{csb-proper noun}}, where the gender and animacy of the proper noun should be provided.
  • Verbs have {{csb-verb}}, where the aspect (perfect or imperfect) of the verb should be provided.
  • Adjectives and adverbs have {{csb-adj}} and {{csb-adv}} respectively, where the comparative and superlative (if present) can be given.

Other parts of speech should use a simple {{head}} template.

Layout

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This is the standard layout:

==Kashubian==

===Etymology===
...

===Pronunciation===
{{IPA|csb-pr}}

===Part of speech===
headword line

# definition
# definition
...
[optional:]
{{syn}}

====Conjugation (verbs) or Declension (nouns and adjectives)====
{{csb-decl-...}} or {{csb-conj-...}}

Phonology

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Kashubian pronunciation should be given using the template {{csb-pr}}.

Etymology

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Kashubian words mostly derive from Proto-Slavic (sla-pro), the shared ancestor of among others Polish, Czech and Russian. Proto-Slavic, in turn, is the descendant of Proto-Balto-Slavic (ine-bsl-pro) and Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro). The entries of these words should contain the template {{inh+}}

As such, the most basic etymology of a term like mësz would look as follows:

===Etymology===
{{dercat|csb|ine-bsl-pro|ine-pro|inh=2}}
{{inh+|csb|sla-pro|*myšь}}. Cognates include {{cog|pl|mysz}} and {{cog|cs|myš}}

Other terms are borrowed, for example from Polish (pl) or German (de). The entries of these words should contain the template {{bor+}}.

German borrowings have the following sound correspondences (from German to Kashubian):

  1. au > u in some words
  2. e> a
  3. a > ô
  4. e > ∅ word finally
  5. ü > i
  6. i, u > ë
  7. ie > é
  8. ck > cz
  9. p > p' (soft p)
  10. pf > p
  11. ei > e
  12. o > ó
  13. ç > ∅

Compare the following etymology for pancernik:

===Etymology===
{{bor+|csb|pl|pancernik}}.