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Min Nan, Middle Chinese[edit]

@Wyang I started editing (merging topolects) and then abandoned for now. I could do it only partially.

What do you think of Min Nan readings and notes? If they are valid, how would they fit into {{zh-pron}}?

I could also use some simplified method to add Middle Chinese pronunciations, if you can think of any. Or I could leave any with Middle Chinese sections for the moment. --Anatoli (обсудить/вклад) 14:42, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I just added extracted data for Middle Chinese, so you can just use |mc=y, like |oc=y now. :) Wyang (talk) 02:45, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Great stuff! --Anatoli (обсудить/вклад) 02:46, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Min Nan bah/mah[edit]

@Wyang, could you take a look at this etymology? An IP wrote that it may come from Proto-Austronesian *babuy, but I can't seem to find any source backing that up. Also, there seems to be forms in Mon-Khmer that look similar: proto West-Bahnaric *bat (“meat; game”), *maːt (“flesh”), Katu mbɑːc (“flesh”). — justin(r)leung (t...) | c=› } 04:44, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Justinrleung I couldn't find the source for that etymology as well; there seem to be only online discussions mentioning it, which may be where the IP got the etymology from. I think it would be better removed. Also, I think moving the (Deng, 1994) tag to after "Compare" would be more fitting (do you have full text to it btw?). Wyang (talk) 08:55, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Wyang, thanks for your comments! I've changed it accordingly. I do have the full text, which I've sent to you. — justin(r)leung (t...) | c=› } 14:05, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]