Talk:eu-
Add topicLatest comment: 1 year ago by Florian Blaschke in topic Tea room discussion
- Note: the below discussion was moved from the Wiktionary:Tea room.
eu- etymology refers to Avestan which is not in the etymology templates -- should it be added? It also uses non-UTF-8 characters to try to display the Avestan spelling. -- dougher 03:40, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
- I don't understand- does {{etyl|ae}} not work? Nadando 03:48, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
- I've trimmed this down, as eu- should not refer back to PIE, as it is a borrowing, not a natural descendant.
{{ae}}works fine, but this does not come from Avestan at all. Avestan characters are not yet encoded in Unicode, but they will be shortly, and some of us have been jumping the gun a bit. We'll have a nice head-start when Avestan characters come online. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 03:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
- I've trimmed this down, as eu- should not refer back to PIE, as it is a borrowing, not a natural descendant.
Doesn't "eu-" also signify "within" as in the difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells? -VitaminN
- No, it means “having a true (fully developed) nucleus”. It's an example of the “true, genuine” sense. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 09:44, 28 September 2023 (UTC)