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April 2024[edit]
Merhaba wiktionary sayfalarını indirmek istiyorum ancak next page yani sonraki sayfaya basmadan olmuyor tek bir şerit halinde nasıl gorebilirim saygılar
Merhaba wiktionary sayfaları tek bir şeritte nasıl gorebilirim next page yapmadan — This unsigned comment was added by Mesut428 (talk • contribs).
Not enough definitions. --2600:8804:481:F300:2DD2:C5B7:FDFD:1804 22:38, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
In Afrikaans the spelling is skelm
Word of the day: force majeure[edit]
The fine print reads falls on this day in 2023 (emphasis added). —71.105.243.101 10:19, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Audios[edit]
Many are poor quality. A robot would be better than many humans 90.174.3.118 21:40, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
I'm confused. --2600:8804:481:F300:24E9:184F:FD9:97D3 23:27, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
I can't find citations for the second sense, but it seems to mean the liquid they secrete as well Justin the Just (talk) 15:31, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
Entry is incomplete: should include prefer
there is a app called discord.
Sorry, I have nothing to contribute but one question to ask: The page says "Full list contains 20,000 highest frequency Mandarin words that are used in Taiwan." but there are approximately 10,000 listed.
Anyway, Many Thanks
- I've edited it to "10,000 highest". The person who worked on this list hasn't changed the list since 2013. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 21:38, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
The IPA used in the pronunciation of this word and many of its related grammatical forms is wrong.
- "(Gipuzkoan, Navarrese) /s̻ixoan/ [s̻i.xo.ãn]" should be changed to "(Gipuzkoan, Navarrese) /s̻ioan/ [s̻i.o.ãn]"
- "(Biscayan) /s̺ixoan/ [s̺i.xo.ãn]" should be changed to "(Biscayan) /s̺ioan/ [s̺i.o.ãn]"
Basque <h> always has a null realization in southern dialects (including Gipuzkoan, Navarrese, and Biscayan), while it is realized as /h/...[h] or [ɦ] in northern dialects (including Navarro-Lapurdian).
If you look at the headword (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/joan#Basque) and open the conjugation paradigm, there are inconsistencies in pronunciation across the columns.
Some columns have the correct IPA, such as
- 2nd sg inf. <hi>: hoa, hindoan, bahindoa, hindoake, hindoakeen, hoake, hoan, hoa (again)
(These entries all reflect the correct pronunciation and the correct realization in each dialect).
Other columns are completely wrong across the whole column:
- 3rd sg <hura>: zihoan, balihoa, lihoake, zihoakeen, bihoa
- 3rd pl < haiek>: zihoazen, balihoaz, lihoazke, zihoazkeen, bihoaz
These entries are inconsistent with other entries for Basque (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Basque_terms_with_IPA_pronunciation).
Their editor has wrongly entered the values /x/...[x] for the letter <h> under the pronunciation sections for "Gipuzkoan, Navarrese", "Biscayan", and "Southern" (the catch-all for those three).
In all those cases above, the phoneme and the phone should actually be null (silent).
I tried to edit them myself but couldn't figure out how to do so. They must be controlled by a module.
- @Santi2222 just drawing your attention to this anonymous feedback. This, that and the other (talk) 07:15, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- The automatically generated pronunciations are not wrong. Many (native) speakers of Southern dialects realize the sequence <ihoa> in conjugated forms of joan as /ixoa/. According to the Handbook of Standard Basque, regarding the letter h (translation my own):
- The handbook only mentions the past tense, but in my experience the velar pronunciations are common in other tenses too. Santi2222 (talk) 11:40, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
sycený[edit]
The Czech word sycený (with gas) is missing... of yourse also nesycený, e.g. sycená perlivá voda
Isn't this just host + desecration? --2600:8804:481:F300:2DF9:F47D:3A99:F58B 08:40, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
May 2024[edit]
might be a real word in French by wiktionary standards Justin the Just (talk) 18:47, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
I'd like all pronunciations to be shown by default. That applies to Greek and Persian entries which display many possible and historic pronunciations. --Esperfulmo (talk) 20:46, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- This is a product of how
{{grc-IPA}}
works (and, by extension, Module:grc-pronunciation. If you think the default behavior should change, maybe raise this at Wiktionary:Grease_pit/2024/May. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:57, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hello @Esperfulmo. You probably know it already: at your left hand menu, under 'Visibility' you can click the little letters: 'Show pronunciations'. It is not default for every reader, but only for you. ‑‑Sarri.greek ♫ I 03:34, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- AP6.283
- Sammelb.4299.14
- PCair.Zen.378.14
- Supp.Epigr.2.569.28, 4.447.45
- PAmh.2.92.19
- J.BJ5.2.1.
I found the above sources for quotations for "μίσθιος" from the LSJ dictionary but can't figure out what the abbreviations mean. I would appreciate if someone could help me find these sources.
Cheers Jamal1911 (talk) 23:35, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- These are a number of reference works, e.g. "Supp.Epigr." is Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Someone who is really familiar with ancient Greek (I am not) would probably be familiar with them, but someone who is new to it (I am) would probably be confused. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:45, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, @Jamal1911 Yes, abbreviations can be a nightmare. Here are some helpful lists:
- DGE abbreviation lists, are the best: http://dge.cchs.csic.es/lst/2lst-int.htm
- AP6.283 http://dge.cchs.csic.es/lst/l1-a2.htm#Anthologia%20Graeca = Anthologia Palatina & Planudea https://anthologiagraeca.org/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:6.283/
- Sammelb.4299.14 https://dge.cchs.csic.es/lst/l2.htm#Sammelb.
- PCair.Zen.378.14 http://dge.cchs.csic.es/lst/l2.htm#PCair.Zen.
- https://logeion.uchicago.edu/about has abbreviations LSJ, Bailly2020, Montanari-Brill (with grc titles)
- Supp.Epigr., as Justin wrote: https://logeion.uchicago.edu/abbreviations/lsj Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, adjuvantibus P. Roussel, A. Salač, M. N. Tod, E. Ziebarth, ed. J. J. E. Hondius, Leyden 1923-.
- PAmh.2.92.19 ibidem: Amherst Papyri, ed. B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, 2 vols., London 1900-1; cited by No. of vol., papyrus, and line.
- J.BJ5.2.1. ibidem: Josephus Historicus [J.] i A.D. Ed. S. A. Naber, Leipzig (T.) 1888-96. // BJ = Bellum Judaicum
- and some abbr. notes at @el.wikt. ‑‑Sarri.greek ♫ I 03:52, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- PS. M @Jamal1911, I think you must take off all the links from the text of quotes. I have never seen all words linked. You may do that at a page of your own; I do that too. ‑‑Sarri.greek ♫ I 04:01, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, @Jamal1911 Yes, abbreviations can be a nightmare. Here are some helpful lists:
For the slang term "cool" as an adjective or adverb I prefer the definition "High positive appeal" as in "That's cool." Thanks! Leonidas B
stupider and stupidest are not words of the english language. People who use these forms are, of course, the most stupid and your dictionary should list these words as incorrect forms. Thanks! Leonidas B
- Like most dictionaries, Wiktionary describes how people use languages, and does not try to prescribe what is supposedly right or wrong. In some cases, labels are added to warn people that certain usages may be regarded as, for example, derogatory to some people or regarded by some people as proscribed (generally thought to be incorrect). However, I don't think stupider and stupidest fall into the latter category—it is common to see them being used. If you do searches at Google Books and the Internet Archive you will find many uses of them. To discuss the matter further, post a message at "Wiktionary:Tea room". — Sgconlaw (talk) 08:20, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
"Piesang" is another word used in Afrikaans, "banana" in English, which also originates from Malay's "pisang". 94.205.104.151 16:59, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Please don't change anything at all the website is perfect as is please for the love of God...
2600:4040:5C0B:5D00:D1A1:78B9:FE29:3763 03:51, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Audio pronunciations[edit]
On wiktionary with language "en", I can press the play-arrow next to words, and hear the recording. On wiktionary with language "nl", this doesn't work, and instead an .ogg file is downloaded.
Under Etymology 1, in the list of derived terms, the entry for Cilician Gates is borked. —71.105.243.101 07:45, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. Fixed. Chuck Entz (talk) 17:54, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
I changed the definition of this word. I am an Inorganic chemist of the solid state and familiar with many compounds that are semimetals. A good example is titanium disulfide. (And there is plenty of literature that says so). The term metalloid is typically reserved for elements that have semimetallic properties. So metalloids are a subgroup of the semimetals, or in linguistic terms: metalloid is a hyponym of semimetal Jcwf (talk) 18:35, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
June 2024[edit]
The definition specifies that this spelling, in English, is used by non-native speakers. But the last of the four quotations appears to have been written by someone who was proficient in English. Given that the writer was discussing the Montreal Canadiens, I believe their use of this spelling was a deliberate use of the French word, and therefore, the quote should not be used as an example of the (mistaken) use of capitaine in English. —71.105.243.101 03:21, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
THANK YOU !!!