User talk:SaoiDunNeachdain

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Ultimateria (talk) 22:03, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Vocatives

Hi. The exclamation mark is not necessary and should actually be omitted. (We don't e.g. put a question mark on the word entries for "whom".) Thanks. Equinox ◑ 13:36, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Template:bor vs. Template:der

{{bor}} can only be used to show borrowing of the term in the entry by the language of the entry directly from another language. If there's anything in between, you use {{der}}. If English loch was inherited from Middle English lough, you can't use {{bor}}. Only the Middle English entry can use {{bor}}.

Otherwise you get strange things like English Gabby listed in Category:English terms borrowed from Hebrew, Category:English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek, Category:English terms borrowed from Latin, and (possibly) Category:English terms borrowed from French, even though the sequence was probably Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל>Ancient Greek Γαβριήλ (Gabriḗl)>Latin Gabriēl first, and (one possibility)>French Gabriel>French Gabrielle>English Gabrielle>English Gabby. It also means that everything but the Hebrew is in some category saying it was borrowed from Hebrew, when only Ancient Greek Γαβριήλ (Gabriḗl) was actually borrowed directly from Hebrew, and Gabby itself was a development within English. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:47, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi there! I was just passing by because I wanted to give you my thanks for your work on improving Scottish Gaelic terminology here. Thank you for your contributions! 82.35.44.68 10:04, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

I really appreciate this, though only just saw it now. thank you! :) SaoiDunNeachdain (talk) 13:37, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Scots

Hey, do you have maybe a discord, I see you've made some Scots entries and I just doing Scots entries and it would be cool if I would have contact will fellow Scots editor. BTW at the bottom of an entrie on DSL you have the etymology I say this because I've notice that you sometimes don't add etymology to entries which have an etymology on DSL.Rakso43243 (talk) 18:32, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

Gaelic dialectal studies

Hi there, thanks for your work on the Scottish Gaelic entries! I see that you've added some IPA pronunciations for Barra and the Outer Hebrides. Do you have a copies for the first and second volumes of the A Linguistic Survey of the Gaelic Dialects of Scotland? I can't seem to find full copies of first two volumes on the internet anywhere. Thank you! — ^{oi yeah nah mate} amazingJUSSO ... [ɡəˈdæɪ̯]! 08:01, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi! I don't believe they're available anywhere online. I'm lucky enough to have physical copies of them. I know they are available for £10 each from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, if that's any help. SaoiDunNeachdain (talk) 08:27, 7 October 2024 (UTC)