Wiktionary:About Kashubian

Kashubian is a West-Slavic language spoken in the northern region of Kashubia in Poland. This page depicts the current practices regarding Kashubian entries in Wiktionary.

Headword

Some Kashubian parts of speech have their own designated headword-line templates, which should precede the definition:

• Nouns have {{csb-noun}}, where the gender and animacy of the noun should be provided.
• Proper nouns have {{csb-proper noun}}, where the gender and animacy of the proper noun should be provided.
• Verbs have {{csb-verb}}, where the aspect (perfect or imperfect) of the verb should be provided.
• Adjectives and adverbs have {{csb-adj}} and {{csb-adv}} respectively, where the comparative and superlative (if present) can be given.

Other parts of speech should use a simple {{head}} template.

Layout

This is the standard layout:

==Kashubian==

===Etymology===
...

===Pronunciation===
{{IPA|csb-pr}}

===Part of speech===
headword line

# definition
# definition
...
[optional:]
{{syn}}

====Conjugation (verbs) or Declension (nouns and adjectives)====
{{csb-decl-...}} or {{csb-conj-...}}

Phonology

Kashubian pronunciation should be given using the template {{csb-pr}}.

Etymology

Kashubian words mostly derive from Proto-Slavic (sla-pro), the shared ancestor of among others Polish, Czech and Russian. Proto-Slavic, in turn, is the descendant of Proto-Balto-Slavic (ine-bsl-pro) and Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro). The entries of these words should contain the template {{inh+}}

As such, the most basic etymology of a term like mësz would look as follows:

===Etymology===
{{dercat|csb|ine-bsl-pro|ine-pro|inh=2}}
{{inh+|csb|sla-pro|*myšь}}. Cognates include {{cog|pl|mysz}} and {{cog|cs|myš}}

Other terms are borrowed, for example from Polish (pl) or German (de). The entries of these words should contain the template {{bor+}}.

German borrowings have the following sound correspondences (from German to Kashubian):

1. au > u in some words
2. e> a
3. a > ô
4. e > ∅ word finally
5. ü > i
6. i, u > ë
7. ie > é
8. ck > cz
9. p > p' (soft p)
10. pf > p
11. ei > e
12. o > ó
13. ç > ∅

Compare the following etymology for pancernik:

===Etymology===
{{bor+|csb|pl|pancernik}}.