User talk:MrsKrishan

Curating my contributions
(Subsequent reductions/redactions not tracked: I trust the process, if worthy of inclusion hopefully content persists)


 * 1 April 2013 periphrastic ‎ (→ added poem quote)
 * That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory/ A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings." T. S. Eliot, East Coker


 * 7 October 2014 onlus (→ added ‎Alternative forms)
 * supplied acronym "organizzazione non lucrativa di utilità sociale" loosely translated as non-profit organisation for social benefit
 * and reference ( forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=915629 )


 * 3 December 2014 schlecht (→ added external link to online Deutsches Wörterbuch)
 * von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm - an exhaustive etymology giving historical literary examples of inversion from positive to negative meaning in centuries since the Renaissance at
 * woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB
 * (Berlin Brandenburg Akadamie der Wissenschaft zu Gottingen © 1998—2014,
 * Trier Center for Digital Humanities)


 * 21 November 2014 handsome is as handsome does ‎ (→ added poem quote)
 * c. 1405–1410., Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath's Tale, line 1170
 * "Thenketh how noble, as seith Valerius \ Was thilke Tullius Hostilius, \ That out of povert roos to heigh noblesse \ Redeth Senek, and redeth eek Boëce, \ Ther shul ye seen expres that it no drede is, \ That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis"


 * April 13 2015 nērebu (in Syriac) (→ updated non-functioning URL)
 * lemme "n)rb" in the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon reference under Syriac entry ܢܐܪܒܐ n-a-r-b-a "chasm, abyss" from Akkadian nērebu http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%DC%A2%DC%90%DC%AA%DC%92%DC%90#References to functioning lemma "n)rb)"


 * 9 October 2015 Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lice (→‎ extended etymology)
 * added pIE-linked words in German, Polish, Maltese, Arabic
 * Compare Antlitz from Middle High German antlitze, from Old High German antlizzi, and Polish oblicze ("countenance, face").
 * Phonetically similar Maltese wiċċ ("face") from Arabic وَجْه 'wajh' ("face").


 * 19 December 2015
 * talisman ‎ (→‎See also: added Thaali Indian talisman)
 * hetman (→‎See also: added hegumen)
 * hegumen (→‎See also: added hetman)


 * 1 June 2016
 * caleo (→‎ added etymology)
 * See Proto-Indo-European roots/ḱ at Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ḱel-.


 * Appendix talk:List of Proto-Indo-European roots/ḱ ‎ (→‎ query re: Persian sard)
 * under kel- incongruent inclusion of antonym (cold) of سرد#Persian? Correct entry would be as *gel- related to 'gelati' (ie frozen temperatures not cauldron scalding hot ones


 * سرخ(→‎ expanded definition)
 * to list phonetic (sorx/scarlet) cognate first, followed by pigment name:  scarlet, red color


 * 9 January 2017‎
 * Aletha (→‎ expanded etymology)
 * added 3 references for derivations from Greek ἀλήθεια, Aletiea (or Althea), meaning "speaker of truth", "one who speaks truth".
 * tęcza (→‎ expanded etymology)
 * Polish for 'rainbow' derived from ancient Greek τόξον ‎(tóxon, “bow”), whence tangent (homophone).


 * 22 January 2017 mucilage (→‎ expanded etymology)
 * See Greek μούχλα ‎(moúchla) meaning mold, and related derivatives mushroom from Proto-Indo-European *meus- ‎(“mosses, mold, mildew”).


 * 25 January 2017 venera  (→‎ expanded definition)
 * added references for
 * 2. A type of jewel worn in Spain, including the badges of the Spanish religious confraternities worn by members throughout the 17th century
 * ^ An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry Author: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson
 * 3. A type of dessert from Asturias, similar to Linzertorte with rings of marzipan-enriched dough formed to resemble scalloped edges
 * ^ Spanish Wikipedia has an article on Venera pastry


 * 31 January 2017 metal (→‎ extended etymology)
 * with Bronze-age associations for pre-Greek origin (see Mycenae > proto-slavic *medz > Sanskrit mas > Medes Media) MrsKrishan (talk) 15:18, 31 January 2017 (UTC)