Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/English words of Indo-European origin

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Delete Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:40, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

English words of Indo-European origin

 * Unmaintainable list. Since the vast majority of English words are of Indo-European origin, a complete list would be virtually a List of English words, that is to say, a dictionary. Therefore delete. Angr/undefined 22:59, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even a list of the Germanic or Romance words (both Indo-European) in English would have to have tens of thousands of entries each. For perspective, I believe every single word used so far in this deletion proposal is Indo-European in origin. &mdash; &#1051;&#1080;&#1074;&#1072;&#1081; | &#x263a; 23:03, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * True; nevertheless not all words of Germanic origin are of Indo-European origin (ship, for example, is Germanic but not Indo-European). --Angr/undefined 11:56, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete For the same reasons Angr gave. I suggested on the talk page a while back that this article should be deleted unless the original author could suggest strategies for doing something with it.  As he has never responded, or returned to the page, I would pull that toilet chain now.  --Doric Loon 23:08, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete - From a linguistics standpoint this is useless. It gives a complete misrepresentation of our language and may lead to confusion among people who are unfamiliar with historical linguistics. -- Barfooz  (talk)  00:13, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - however a page English words not of Indo-European origin might be useful, even if it was mainly a list pointing to various "English words of Foo origin" articles. Grutness...  wha?  00:52, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - however the page should be kept but changed from a list of words to a descrption of the history and liguistics involved sunja 21:57, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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