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Yeah as a non-expert I can only vouch so far. I can say that the time I did my deepest dive (about the various Latin words that look like 'pila' if you ignore

Yeah as a non-expert I can only vouch so far. I can say that the time I did my deepest dive (about the various Latin words that look like 'pila' if you ignore vowel length, and their etymology - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pila#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pila#Latin), using wiktionary as a starting point for trawling 'real' scholarly references I presented the work to my Latin teacher, a university professor of Ancient Greek, who said it checked out (though, he's a classicist and not a general linguist, so maybe that doesn't count. And maybe he was just humouring me). What we need is a linguist to get on here and give their take, and tell us how it fares compared to the professional resources.

wolverine876 5y ago
> What we need is a linguist to get on here and give their take, and tell us how it fares compared to the professional resources. Agreed. BTW, regardless of Wiktionary, I love the research - it's such creative, intriguing, stimulating work to explore those things. When people react, as (IMHO) they are conditioned to, to intellectual things with fear, hesitation and/or negativity, I think 'ugh, you are missing so much, the most beautiful things in this universe and many others.' And see my other comment about the OED. It's the best tool for it.