User:Word dewd544

Introduction
Hi, I'm a Wiktionary editor particularly interested in etymology and linguistic evolution, and focus mostly on Romance languages, along with some other Indo-European languages. I'm in the U.S., with background in Romania, Greece, and Italy.

To do list

 * Finally made a user page after six years.
 * Add most of the basic lexicon for major Romance languages- mostly done (finished adding Friulian, known Dalmatian, Istriot, and Latin part of Aromanian, as well as Romanian).
 * Worked on some Albanian terms of Latin origin or ones with cognates in Romanian.
 * Add translations for several basic Romance words.
 * Work on ensuring a consistent set of etymologies in the chain from modern languages to Proto-Indo-European reconstructions- sort of a side project.
 * Adding related/derived terms to English entries, especially those taken from French/Latin.
 * Sort (mostly Romance) entries out by inherited versus borrowed following the policy enactment. May take quite a while. Less than halfway done. Looking at a couple thousand more entries... sigh. I am mainly focusing on the inherited cores of each language, as opposed to the greater amounts of later borrowings, which other people can maybe address.
 * Sort out some Germanic and Slavic language etymologies.
 * Maybe work on some Vulgar Latin reconstructed forms at some point.
 * Working on Greek etymologies if they are not done

The big Romance languages I have been working on:


 * [| Catalan terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| French terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Italian terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Portuguese terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Romanian terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Spanish terms inherited from Latin]

Some other smaller ones I have been adding to as well:


 * [| Aromanian terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Friulian terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Dalmatian terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Sicilian terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Occitan terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Romansch terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Venetian terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Asturian terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Galician terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Walloon terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Norman terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Sardinian terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Istriot terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Franco-Provencal terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Neapolitan terms inherited from Latin]
 * [| Albanian terms derived from Latin]
 * [| Welsh terms derived from Latin]