Template:etymid/documentation
This template is like {{senseid}} (which see for more), but meant to be used for specific etymologies rather than specific senses.
Hypothetical example:
===Etymology 1===
{{etymid|en|structure}}
From {{inh|en|enm|hous}}, {{m|enm|hus}}...
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When creating an etymid, please use a character string that allows a nearby part-of-speech sense to have a different ID string, so that links can point to either target unambiguously.
As explained at {{senseid}}, a Wikidata ID often makes a good senseid for a typical noun. The etymology of that noun can then naturally take another string.
When creating an etymid, one might wonder how to choose a value (a string) that is wisely chosen. A suggestion for how to decide what to call (how to name) an etymology is "from WHATEVER-referent origins", where WHATEVER equals a core concept that the word roots or their ancestral antecedents referred to. If the origin is "probably from" (or "possibly from" or "perhaps from") rather than " from", then the relevant qualifying word (such as "probably") can apply before "from". An example can be seen at bun; you can search for "etymid" inside the wikitext source to see the names given there.