User:Frigoris

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Resources for Chinese: my collection for online resources when working with Chinese entries.

(Lal 10, p. 88) — we need more of them.

Question: when to use the etymological language code   and when to use just "Sanskrit"? What if the "source" text is unknown?

Words of wisdom for lexicographers:
 * 述而不作
 * ad fontes ("A motto of Renaissance humanists.")
 * 信以傳信，疑以傳疑
 * 吾猶及史之闕文也
 * 人之學也，或失則多，或失則寡，或失則易，或失則止.
 * 人之患在好為人師
 * Dans ce qui nous est donné comme universel, nécessaire, obligatoire, quelle est la part de ce qui est singulier, contingent, et dû à des contraintes arbitraires ? — Foucault

Useful templates:
 * Category:Sanskrit reference templates

User Pages

 * Tech stuff: /common.css
 * To-do list
 * *Seringas, possible reference to the Chinese people in Anglo-Saxon literature.
 * /Words from The Lamentation for the South densely packed with 典故 but also poetic vocabulary
 * /Disyllabic given names in OC given names found in Pre-Qin classics that might have been formed with disyllabic morphemes
 * /昧雉彼視 (and "麻夷非是"), oaths in OC.
 * /Rhymes, lost rhyming due to phonetic shift, etc.
 * See also: /Eye rhymes
 * /姑蘇, almost incomprehensible
 * /Fausses amies, false friends
 * /Lizard words, lizard words
 * /Modern Germanic Place Names - blame Rua for this.
 * /Ethnonyms
 * /Consonantal changes - the language of early Buddhist transmission into China
 * /Pāṇini reincarnated - a folk tale collected by Xuanzang, about the rebirth of as a boy who was forced to study linguistics. Beside an account of the Buddhization of Gandhara, there's also a lesson for philologists somewhere, maybe.
 * /Chinese issues in Adams Dictionary - Chinese issues in the Adams (2013) dictionary for Tocharian B.

in muribus

 * 1) in mice formed congruently to "in vitro" and "in vivo"
 * We have found an in muribus cure for every disease. It kills a human instantly.

待罪閨中

 * 1) to await the inevitable punishment of matrimony

Ill-constructed non-Sanskrit
Please don't actually add these words.


 * - the game of baseball or softball.
 * - the game of xiangqi, with infantry, chariotry, cavalry, elephantry, and artillery. Cf..
 * - the game of go.
 * - mahjong, phono-semantic matching of . However, may have been a dictionary-only word.