Talk:ciucure

Two references are: Alexandru Cioranescu's Romanian Etymological Dictionary from the 1950s,his entry for ciucure is available at dexro online, I'll link it later. Second reference was Sorin Olteanu, the Thracologist, who published an an essay about ciucă and ciuc several years ago, but he no longer has most of his essays available online. And some other works I read years ago. I know about Wiktionary's guidelines, but with words like this, their guidelines are ridiculously inflexible, I'd rather be flexible, more informative and more accurate. I'll be back later, take care and think about the things I brought up. 2607:FB90:B8D9:D989:0:19:F134:5301 20:40, 10 November 2019 (UTC) And yeah, the word is definitely not from *cicullum or ciccum. Some people have an unhealthy fascination with the most trivial Latin words, and ciccum was just a Greek borrowing anyway, a two-cent word that doesn't explain the Romanian words. 2607:FB90:B8D9:D989:0:19:F134:5301 20:43, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

I honestly don't care what you have to say about how the word is or isn't related to Latin – if you don't provide plausible sources (N.B. Sorin Olteanu is not what most people would call a "reliable source"), then it shouldn't be added. If you think we're too "inflexible", I suggest you edit somewhere else or write a blog about it instead. --Robbie SWE (talk) 20:59, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Alexandru Cioranescu and other authorities who don't think that ciucure derives from *cicculum/ciccum are more weighty than the Wiktionarian WordDewd's opinion that the word "probably derives from *cicculum",the version which you reverted back to. I honestly don't care about rude and disrespectful people and robots who are editing Wiktionary as if this was still 2005 when such Wiktionay editors were even more common. 2607:FB90:B8D9:D989:0:19:F134:5301 21:19, 10 November 2019 (UTC)