Reconstruction talk:Primitive Irish/ᚓᚊᚐᚄ

RFD discussion: August–October 2023
Primitive Irish. Unneeded intermediate reconstruction between Proto-Celtic and Old Irish; only one descendant and no derived terms (such as personal names, which make up the bulk of the Primitive Irish corpus). —Mahāgaja · talk 13:55, 21 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete unless personal names containing it can be found. I'm personally a bit nuanced with one-descendant entries. Unlike several others around here, I'm fine with having one-descendant entries unless one of the following apply:
 * The term might not have existed in the ancestor in the first place
 * It does not form a word family within the proto-language with another term (thus the entry cannot serve as a hub listing related terms together)
 * There is not enough non-trivial information about the ancestor term that is not pertinent to the contemporary use of the descendant (thus making the entry 100% redundant with the descendant's entry)
 * This term fails two of my criteria: there are no derivatives or related words listed for this entry and it does not contain any Primitive-Irish-specific information that doesn't. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 01:54, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep This term is attested in two personal names: EQQE‿AGNI (eta: = ) and EQODDI (= ). —Caoimhin ceallach (talk) 15:18, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I made a template for this reference, which might come in handy for other Ogham entries: . —Caoimhin ceallach (talk) 18:25, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * This is a similar issue as the one discussed when the Proto-Italic entries were deleted. I personally think that intermediate reconstructions based on previous reconstructions/attestations are fine, and if they aren't that there may be a need to delete the intermediate language altogether, but obviously a lot of people doesn't share my opinion on this.
 * In any case, I'm not sure that RFD for inidividual terms make sense unless there is already an agreement on this issue within a specific language (family) editor base. Thadh (talk) 15:28, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @Mahagaja I added some information. What do you think? I don't know how best to format it. —Caoimhin ceallach (talk) 15:37, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Looks good now. Withdrawn. —Mahāgaja · talk 16:51, 11 October 2023 (UTC)