User talk:Lunatone3000

98.170.164.88 20:03, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Note on recent creations
Hello. Thank you for your contributions. I have some comments on your recent entries. 98.170.164.88 20:03, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * — You defined this as "An hourglass, sand timer", presumably based on the image of the Cherokee Wikipedia article ᎢᏳᏩᎪᏗ. However, the word actually simply means "time". See the "Consortium Word List", or page 134 of Durbin Feeling's Cherokee-English Dictionary, which also gives some usage examples (the dictionary entry is transcribed here).
 * — I can't find this in cherokeedictionary.net. The Cherokee words they give for "translation" are and ; but of course it's possible other words have the same meaning. Searching on Google, I can see it's used in a handful of web pages. I don't know the first thing about Cherokee grammar, so I can't tell whether this is an inflected form or something. I'd like to see a source that says this word actually means "translation".
 * Old English Ƿikipǣdia — First of all, we don't use wynns and macrons in page titles for Old English, per . So the proper page title would be (but you could include the macron in the page itself; the wynn is entirely excluded). Much more importantly though, we only include Old English words that are actually attested in the period when Old English was spoken (the early Middle Ages), per . "Neo-Old English" using modern coinages is not really what we intend to cover. Given that Wikipedia wasn't around 1000 years ago, we won't have an entry for it.

Thanks for letting me know, I have changed the first entry. As for the second entry, that is attested [here], in which case I'm pretty sure that it's an inflected form of your examples above, as they look similar.

Sorry for adding that Old English term, I'm a new-ish user and I didn't see any rules regarding the use of Wynn, also I'm sure that Wynn has been attested in written Old English.

Anyway, thanks for letting me know:) Lunatone3000 (talk) 07:23, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

ass
Why do you insist moving the "stupid person" sense to Etymology 2? It doesn't make sense. Jberkel 22:23, 4 April 2024 (UTC)


 * It does
 * https://www.oed.com/dictionary/ass_n2 Lunatone3000 (talk) 22:26, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * It's derived from ass (donkey), by extension from the animal, and not from "buttocks". Maybe there's some overlap now, but in any case it shouldn't be moved. See Talk:ass. Looks like more people are confused. Jberkel 22:40, 4 April 2024 (UTC)