Template talk:cy-noun

Acceleration

It would be not too hard to add acceleration links, the code could be copied from {{fr-noun}}. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:33, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

mfbysense

@Benwing2: Could you edit the documentation subpage to explain how |mfbysense works? I've never seen that option before. —Mahāgaja · talk 08:14, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

@Mahagaja mfbysense is something I added recently to Module:gender and number, meaning it potentially works for all languages. It's intended for nouns that can be either masculine or feminine depending on whether they refer to masculine or feminine beings (i.e. "by sense"). Sometimes these nouns are called "epicene" but that also has a different meaning, see Wikipedia epicene, so I'd rather not use it. Using mfbysense displays "m or f" and adds the lemma to CAT:Welsh masculine and feminine nouns by sense. I'm not sure of any examples but you can probably think of some; perhaps the equivalent of "doctor" or "president", or something; maybe Welsh cobra, which appears to be either masculine or feminine, or cyfarwydd (“storyteller, witness”). Benwing2 (talk) 01:27, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

@Mahagaja I went ahead and changed the gender to mfbysense for all nouns referring to people or animals (except for gnats, flies, etc.). Please check the entries in CAT:Welsh masculine and feminine nouns by sense and let me know if I made any mistakes, thanks! Benwing2 (talk) 03:58, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

@Benwing2: Thanks for the explanation! Unfortunately my knowledge of Welsh isn't nearly comprehensive enough to be able to check that, though. cobra is listed as masculine only in GPC, though sarff is said to have both genders. I wonder, though, whether it's really that sarff is masculine when referring to male snakes and feminine when referring to female snakes, or whether the word is simply masculine in some dialects and feminine in others, without regard to the sex of the snake in question. I suspect the latter, since most humans are only interested in the sex of those animals that they breed, and there probably aren't very many snake-breeders in Wales. —Mahāgaja · talk 15:40, 30 October 2020 (UTC)