Talk:kudos

I seriously doubt the Finnish word "kudos" is related any way to the English or Greek word of similar appearance.

Then again, what do I know... ;)


 * You are right. Kudos sounds incredibly similar to kiittää and even kiitos, but still that could well be completely random. 91.152.67.177 18:28, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

RFV discussion: June–July 2020
Was tagged by an anon. – Jberkel 11:54, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Was added in, maybe can help. Also, what's "kudos (kùdos)" supposed to mean? Should it be "|head=kùdos" in the source or be at kùdos in the first place? --Bakunla (talk) 22:59, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I found a dictionary from 1971 that lists kudos with the meaning "to groan". In fifty years the meaning could have shifted, or it could have been a euphemism even in 1971, as I've seen professional dictionaries do that sort of thing before (e.g.  i had a dictionary with no word for masturbation but I could look up "self-abuse").    However, there is no glottal stop in the dictionary word, ... it's just kudos.   Also, the mag- is a verb prefix.
 * The dictionary states that Bikol is a collection of dialects, so it's possible that explains the slight difference in pronunciation (kudos vs kuʔdos). The author of that entry has contributed thousands of other C Bikol words, so i have no reason to doubt their expertise ... but if we must be absolutely thorough, perhaps we need to either change the definition to "groan", or continue our search to find something that specifically provides the definition we want for the spelling we list.  — Soap — 22:16, 12 June 2020 (UTC)


 * RFV-deleted. Partially removed out of process (well, the definition at least), but I haven't added the meaning "groan", because I'm not sure if it should even be lemmatised here. There is certainly no evidence presented for this highly specific fecal definition. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 02:07, 20 July 2020 (UTC)