Talk:θρίξινος

RFV discussion: September 2021
Not in any of Perseus's dictionaries (LSJ, Middle Liddell, Autenrieth, Slater). Possibly an error for. —Mahāgaja · talk 15:41, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Possibly created to fix a red link at the (incorrect) etymology of – which was originally presented as “from ” with a non-final form for the ⟨⟩.  --Lambiam 11:21, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, the fact that it's and not  pretty much proves that the source is . —Mahāgaja · talk 17:32, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
 * This shows the danger of editing in areas outside of one's expertise. In January of 2019 added "from  ", to the trichina etymology, which is obviously the result of trying to convert a transliteration to Ancient Greek- something they used to do a lot. I'm not sure if the spelling is the result of confusion between  and  in transliteration, or of trying to recreate the original Ancient Greek term from the transliterations of its parts,  and . The inflection section of  has a clear indication of what could go wrong with the second approach.
 * In January of this year, as their first edit, fixed the the medial  at the end of the word- an obvious error that no one who has actually studied Greek would ever make. 6 months later, as their fifth edit, they created this entry. The fact that they had to fix such a basic error should have told them they needed to look it up before creating the entry.
 * Their error can be written off to inexperience, but Djkcel had been warned, lectured, and even blocked over this kind of thing for years at the time they made their edit. To use a language they do know as an analogy, this would be equivalent to someone with no knowledge of Turkish, let alone vowel harmony or the difference between c/ç, g/ğ, i/ı, o/ö, s/ş and u/ü, working with Turkish compounds. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:09, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and deleted it as "created in error". —Mahāgaja · talk 07:30, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
 * My bad for this error I should have checked the root with greater strictness. —Alexandre-Daubricourt · talk 14:45, 4 September 2021 (UTC)