User talk:Rdurkan
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Etymologies
[edit]Hi! Because you don't interact beyond asking very similar questions repeatedly, several editors have started to feel that you should please refer to the answers to your previous questions, e.g. Wiktionary:Grease_pit/2018/June#Hittite_cognates and Wiktionary:Grease_pit/2018/June#Words_of_Provencal_origin, and at least show that you've tried to generalize those methods and figure out how to answer the question yourself (e.g., see if there is a category for "terms derived from Foobar"; perform searches, of a database dump or via the search function, for {{der|(code(s) of whatever borrower languages you're looking at)|(code of whatever source language you're looking for); etc) before asking more such questions. - -sche (discuss) 15:39, 3 July 2018 (UTC)