Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Main Page Entries

Main Entries @CodeCat, -sche: Do you need me to delete one of the two Old English lemmas for WATTLE? I shall do so if it causes confusion. If you had time to compare that on the relevant Talk Pages with the two or three Main Entries you may find a much fuller version of etymologies, since I have to keep the Main Entries accurate and succinct. I believe that you would agree with what others have proved that the safest and most reliable book dictionaries for origins is the Oxford Dictionaries in around 22 volumes. Before them Skeat was regarded by avid scholars as the most accurate. However, some of his 'roots' were questionable. WATTLE is assumed to be connected with WAD - one of the 'cool' etymologies, but it really comes from a Proto-Indo-European root *WEI, or *WĒ, (to entwine), or from the root of Old English WIODU = Irish & Gaelic FIODH, and its early Germanic cognates - rather than with a bandage! The fabricated *WADLAZ was alleged to be the link; but that is mere assumption. I have seen too many assumptions that certain words have Proto-Germanic roots, without any real evidence. Andrew H. Gray 21:55, 15 October 2015 (UTC)Andrew

P.S. When you have read this and sent any instructions to improve my (very rare) entry editing, that whole section can be reverted as I have copied it from my Talk Page, in case you would not find it there. Andrew H. Gray 22:04, 15 October 2015 (UTC)Andrew