Template talk:mutation of

To be used with forms showing initial consonant mutations, for example in Celtic languages.

RFD discussion: March 2019
This template was used on seven Galician pages (corresponding to what are more aptly termed "alternative forms" in Portuguese) and two Cornish pages (for irregular mutations of two variant words meaning "day"), and that's it. I replaced all of them with, with appropriate usage notes. There are more specific templates such as, , , , etc. that should be used in all cases. Benwing2 (talk) 17:22, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Mutations are not alternative forms, so what should the Cornish entries be? —Rua (mew) 17:50, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The forms in question are and, which appear instead of  and  after the definite article . I don't know enough Cornish to be 100% certain, but I strongly suspect that these are not a typical initial consonant mutation (which would not be expected after the masculine singular definite article, at least not in the Celtic languages I'm familiar with) but rather some sort of sandhi form, that probably really can fairly be called an alternative form of. —Mahāgaja · talk 17:59, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Irish has t-prothesis, which occurs with exactly that same form, see . So it's possibly cognate. —Rua (mew) 23:21, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Interesting. But t-prothesis only occurs with vowel-initial words. In any case I don't think we should keep around a template like this for a questionable analysis of two words, so I'm going to delete it unless someone objects. Benwing2 (talk) 05:19, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * We should still use to give a more specific description of the form, if we don't want to make a template for it.  has a specific meaning on Wiktionary and this doesn't fit it. If it did, then  and  would be completely interchangeable, which they clearly aren't. —Rua (mew) 16:17, 21 March 2019 (UTC)