Category talk:English words suffixed with -ed

RFC discussion: April 2019–February 2023
This currently contains both terms derived from past participles, and terms derived with the suffix meaning "having". Terms derived from past participles are not "words suffixed with -ed", though, because the suffixation happened with the creation of the participle, not in the derivation of another word from the participle. And since we do not categorise non-lemmas by morphology (thankfully! imagine how many plurals suffixed with we'd have!), the participles should not be in this category. —Rua (mew) 22:24, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

And if, for whatever reason I can't fathom, we want to keep the participles categorised, then we still need to separate them into Category:English words suffixed with -ed (past participle) and Category:English words suffixed with -ed (having) (compare Category:English words suffixed with -er). So the category needs cleaning up either way. However, I'll state in advance that I oppose that solution, since the participles don't even belong in any suffix category.


 * A side question, for a word like affectioned, should it really have multiple etymologies (one for the verb and one for the adjective) because the different parts of speech use the suffix -ed from different etymologies? -Mike (talk) 04:43, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * That's not a side question. It's a good question about the merits of the proposal, relating to the conceptual basis for its implementation. DCDuring (talk) 12:25, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I've edited to bring it into the state I think it should be in. Lemmas should always be separated from nonlemmas in terms of etymology, lemmas always come first. I've added the usual  to the etymology section of the verb forms. —Rua (mew) 12:39, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree that it is a bad idea to add etymologies for inflected forms with -ed, or any other common inflectional suffix. There are way too many such terms and either there will be a huge amount of work involved or not all of them will be categorized. — Eru·tuon 21:45, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I think the idea is to have separate etymology sections that have no actual etymology information or at most "See [lemma of verb]". DCDuring (talk) 20:57, 20 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Update: The category was moved in 2022 to Category:English terms suffixed with -ed. &mdash; excarnateSojourner (talk &middot; contrib) 18:58, 15 February 2023 (UTC)