User:GabeMoore

Hi, I'm GabeMoore. I probably shouldn't have used my real-life name for Wiktionary, but, oh well.

I'm currently an English philology student at University of Vilnius, and I've always been fascinated with historical linguistics research. I've taught myself pretty good German, took five years of Latin in high school, as well as superficially studied around a dozen languages.

I joined Wiktionary in my senior year of high school, initially to help clean up some of the Germanic etymologies that weren't cross-checked with other etymology pages. Soon thereafter, I've since made it my goal to upload all of the notable entries in Douglas Q. Adams' A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged onto Wiktionary, mostly because no one else was. Now, since I've become pretty proficient at Lithuanian (yet another sparsely-attested language on Wiktionary), I've been adding Lithuanian entries, mostly from Smoczynski (2018) but also of words I know that need some content.

I put Altaic etymologies out of their misery where I encounter them in my travels.

If I did something wrong, please feel free to tell me about it on my talk page, as others have.