| Wiktionary:Beer parlour Nov 27th 2012, 21:48 proto-indo-european word spellings: new section | ← Older revision | Revision as of 21:48, 27 November 2012 | | Line 3,455: | Line 3,455: | | | | | | | | A new vote, on whether to retain a configuration change that was made a few years ago without our say-so. (A meta user has been campaigning heavily for this change to be revoked on all projects that didn't explicitly ask for it, so I think we now have to make an explicit decision on the subject.) —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 00:28, 27 November 2012 (UTC) | | A new vote, on whether to retain a configuration change that was made a few years ago without our say-so. (A meta user has been campaigning heavily for this change to be revoked on all projects that didn't explicitly ask for it, so I think we now have to make an explicit decision on the subject.) —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 00:28, 27 November 2012 (UTC) | | | + | | | | + | == proto-indo-european word spellings == | | | + | | | | + | While I know these words are reconstructed and thus not real, I was still wondering what the best way to write out the words are. Specifically, I'm talking about the discrepancy between certain spelling conventions used for some of them. Some have an initial "h₁" while others don't, and just begin with the vowel. For example {{lx|ine-pro|oḱtṓw}} as the entry on here doesn't, but under the Wiktionary [[Appendix:List of Proto-Indo-European roots/h₁|List of Proto-Indo European roots]] it's listed as "*h₁oḱtṓw". While these are essentially the same, which way is best to use universally here so there's consistency between etymologies and reconstructed words/appendices? On there, a word for "fire" is listed as "*h₁eh₂-ter-", while on another appendix, the [[Appendix:List_of_Proto-Indo-European_nouns#Fire|list of Proto-Indo-European nouns]] it's written as "*eh₂ter-", and many of the links in wiktionary go to this form (none of the pages are created yet though). Same for "*h₁eǵʰs" vs. "*eǵʰs". Just wanted to know so the dictionary can be made more uniform. I guess both forms can be listed in the etymologies, but which should actually be created? So far, there are some existing pages that use a preceding h₁ and others that don't, so there isn't a standard to base it on. Wikipedia seems to prefer using forms with h₁ in most cases. [[User:Word dewd544|Word dewd544]] ([[User talk:Word dewd544|talk]]) 21:48, 27 November 2012 (UTC) | |  |
