Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Question about splitting Dutch etymologies/reply

They should be split, because they don't have the same history. One of them was surely formed from the other at some point, and this is worth mentioning. If one of them can be traced back to, say, Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European, that certainly doesn't necessarily apply to the other.

Non-lemmas should always go in their own etymology section marked with, but several can be grouped together under that etymology regardless of origins.