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This page is intended to complement WT:CFI and WT:ELE specifically regarding the Livonian language.
Classifying headings by how many equals signs are used to enter them in wiki markup the classification (and the order they should be in) is generally as follows:
Some of them are likely to be needed much less often, for example, "Alternative forms." "See also" also isn't vital but is often useful for displaying coordinate terms.
There exist sources specifically on Livonian etymologies, but usually they are confined to one specific type of word origin, for example, Latvian loans. Sources on Estonian and Finnish etymology (such as {{R:et:EES}}
or {{R:fi:SSA}}
will often mention Livonian cognates, if they exist.
An editor who is familiar with, for example, Latvian or Estonian can suggest likely etymologies. For example, "Apparently a borrowing from Latvian...," "Apparently cognate with Estonian...," etc. In case of doubt one can write simply "Compare Estonian..." without necessarily implying a connection. However, there may not even be a need for such speculations as Suhonen's JLL offers etymologies for ca. 2500 Latvian loans in Livonian (see: {{R:liv:JLL}}
) and eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat lists Livonian cognates in its etymologies of Estonian words.
The last donor is assumed to be the source. For example, un (alternative to the inherited ja) is a borrowing of Latvian un in Livonian, however, after specifying this it can be noted that it is "ultimately from Low German" by using the {{der}}
for both Latvian and Low German (which would put the entry in both Category:Livonian terms derived from Latvian and Category:Livonian terms derived from Middle Low German.
See Appendix:Livonian pronunciation.
Mostly {{liv-noun}}
is used to display nominal inflection. See below for verbal conjugation.
The page Appendix:Livonian declension is intended to list types words from which already have entries.
A comprehensive list of different nominal declension types with examples of entries pertaining to a specific type can be found at Appendix:Livonian declension.
Nouns
Proper nouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Prepositions
Cardinal numerals
Ordinal numerals
"Pseudo-compound"
Pronoun
See Appendix:Livonian conjugation.
The following is a (somewhat incomplete) step-by-step guide on creating form ofs with AWB.
{{liv-noun}}
but do not have the forms created (links are black not blue.){{R:liv:LEL}}
and double check that the inflected forms correspond to the inflection type given there. This is the most time consuming part but it's almost guaranteed that somewhere somehow errors will have slipped into the inflection tables.{{User:Neitrāls vārds/CSV}}
.It is probably possible to create up to 120 entries per minute (0.5 seconds per entry) but it's probably advisable to glance over the wiki markup one last time before saving amounting to maybe 3 seconds per entry for a total of 20 entries per minute (but these are very rough estimates.)
A slower but perhaps easier (at first) way is using {{liv-noun/forms}}
which gives markup to be then pasted manually in the entries but that would amount to maybe 5 entries per minute.
For form of creation subtemplates for verbs see Appendix:Livonian conjugation.
LEL is probably the single most important Livonian source. Its nominal declension table is assumed to be the standard.
Sjögren's 19th century Livisch-deutsches und deutsch-livisches Wörterbuch can be downloaded on Google Books (one must bear in mind that in many aspects it is outdated and should probably be used only for cross-referencing.)
EKI offers a searchable online version of the Sjögren's dictionary mentioned above: liivi-saksa sõnaraamat.
Tartu University features an extensive collection many of which they also offer for download as PDF files.
Sources on etymology: