| Wiktionary:Beer parlour Mar 28th 2012, 18:20 Etyls for borrowed words -- how far back to track?: new section | ← Older revision | Revision as of 18:20, 28 March 2012 | | Line 2,080: | Line 2,080: | | | | | | | | : Shouldn't we describe this in terms of a ''term'', which is our unit, rather than a ''word''? ''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]] [[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]] <small>2012-03-28 17:57 z</small>'' | | : Shouldn't we describe this in terms of a ''term'', which is our unit, rather than a ''word''? ''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]] [[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]] <small>2012-03-28 17:57 z</small>'' | | | + | | | | + | == Etyls for borrowed words -- how far back to track? == | | | + | | | | + | So I just added the term {{term|lang=ja|ピンセット|tr=pinsetto||tweezers}}, which made it into Japanese from Dutch, as I've marked in the etyl. The Dutch term comes from French {{term|lang=fr|pincette}}, from {{term|lang=fr|pincer}}, and so on back to PIE, as indicated by the etyl at {{term|lang=en|pinch}}. | | | + | | | | + | How much of this history should I include on the {{l|ja|ピンセット}} page? Is it enough to give the link to Dutch? | | | + | | | | + | (Incidentally, if the etyl at {{term|lang=en|pinch}} is correct, at least some of that content could/should be added to the {{term|lang=fr|pincer}} entry.) | | | + | | | | + | -- Cheers, [[User:Eirikr|Eiríkr Útlendi]] │ <small style="position: relative; top: -3px;">''[[User talk:Eirikr|Tala við mig]]''</small> 18:20, 28 March 2012 (UTC) | | |
