Template:Did you know nominations/Weise's law
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle talk 05:27, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
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Weise's law
- ... that Weise's law was first proposed as a solution to an imbalance between Ancient Greek and Sanskrit cognates? Source: "If we examine the Indian [Sanskrit] words beginning with guttural + r or l and compare them with their Greek reflexes, we will notice that all those which have retained the guttural in Indian intact show guttural + ρ, whereas Greek guttural + λ only occurs regularly when the palatal sibilants [ś], j, h appear in Indian. The absence of exceptions in this rule automatically prohibits the assumption that coincidence prevailed here. Of course, this excludes cases where r (or l) is not immediately after the guttural, but there is a vowel in between, although the rule stated above often applies here too." Source, in German, center of page beginning with "Wenn wir nämlich die..."
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- Comment: This is my first DYK nomination; please let me know if there is anything amiss.
Created by ThaesOfereode (talk). Self-nominated at 03:16, 20 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Weise's law; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
For a first nomination, this is remarkable well polished! The article is new enough, certainly long enough, is well-written and presentable, and has a breadth of reliable sources used throughout. No QPQ required. The hook is a bit properly cited and is in the article, but it is a bit dense and vague. I'm not a linguist, and knowing what an imbalance between cognates means is beyond me, even after reading the article. Please let me know if this is not correct, but would the following Alternate hook be accurate:
- ALT1: ... that Weise's law was proposed as a way to explain differences between the Ancient Greek and Sanskrit languages?
- Thank you for a great article; please drop me a ping when you respond to the small hook concern! Fritzmann (message me) 12:58, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for the kind words; I'm glad my hard work has paid off! Regarding your concern, I agree that the term "imbalance" is problematic for the hook. I like your rewrite, but instead of the final word "languages", I think it would be more accurate to use either "cognates" (ideal) or "etymologies". If you believe those are still to technical, I could suggest either linking "cognates", like either:
- ALT2: ... that Weise's law was first proposed as a way to explain differences between Ancient Greek and Sanskrit cognates?
- ALT3: ... that Weise's law was first proposed as a way to explain why cognates differ unexpectedly in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit?
- or simply rewriting the hook as:
- ALT4: ... that Weise's law was first proposed to explain differences in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit words with the same origin?
- Let me know what you think. I think ALT3 is the strongest, but at the end of the day, all of these express the same ultimate idea; I think any of these proposed options would work just fine. Ping: User:Fritzmann2002 // ThaesOfereode (talk) 15:22, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
My personal preference is for ALT4, but I fully agree that any of them are runnable. I will leave it to the promoter to take their choice of three very good options. Congratulations, and I hope to see you back at DYK soon! Fritzmann (message me) 16:03, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
