Talk:Ῥῆνος

RFV
In particular, the descendants. It seems very unlikely that all the people of Europe would have borrowed a Greek word for a river that wasn't even near Greece. Furthermore, many online sources show that the Germanic name for the river was taken from Celtic, which makes a lot more sense. The -i- of many of the names in particular is descended from the Celtic (later Germanic) name either directly or through borrowing, since Latin/PIE -ē- becomes Celtic -ī-, but remains in Germanic. So I doubt that all of these names come from Greek, although they were probably respelled with Rh- based on it. —CodeCat 13:32, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * But you are rfving the word itself, right? There is a template for check descendants, but I can't remember what it is. --Mglovesfun (talk) 15:42, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * No I'm rfving the descendants. I'm not sure what else I should do... there is something to be 'verified' isn't there? —CodeCat 18:45, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Top of the page says "Overview: Requests for Verification is a page for requests for attestation of a term or a sense, leading to deletion of the term or a sense unless an editor proves that the disputed term or sense meets the attestation criterion as specified in Criteria for inclusion, usually by providing three citations from three durably archived sources."
 * That's why I'd like this page to be renamed to WT:Requests for attestation as we get a fair few non-rfv requests here. FWIW I can't cite it based on Google Books alone. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:26, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I've made a request for moving it. —CodeCat 13:10, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I renamed the ===Descendants==== to ===Related terms===. - -sche (discuss) 07:02, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

German cognates
The Germanic cognates could be added back as Related terms now. - -sche (discuss) 20:23, 29 January 2012 (UTC)