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This template is used in the etymology section to display etymologies for compound words: words that are made up of multiple parts. For more about compounds in etymologies, see Wiktionary:Etymology#Compound.

{{compound}} is only used when two independent words are joined, without modification. In other cases, please use the following alternatives:

• For combination involving a prefix or suffix added to a base word, use {{prefix}} or {{suffix}} instead.
• For combination involving both a prefix and a suffix (no base word), use {{confix}} instead.
• For combination of independent words where the result is not just concatenation, as in brunch, use {{blend}} instead.

This template uses Module:compound as a back-end. This module, in turn, uses Module:links to link each part of the compound, so that it supports all the features in that module.

Usage

The most basic usage is as follows:

{{compound|first part|second part|optionally more parts|lang=(language code)}}

For instance, a simple etymology of placeholder could be created with:

{{compound|place|holder|lang=en}}

which evaluates to:

It also adds the entry to Category:English compound words.

Parameters

The language code (see Wiktionary:Languages) is given with lang= and the script code (see Wiktionary:Scripts) optionally with sc=. The script can be detected if not provided, so it's rarely needed. The language code defaults to "en" (English) for legacy reasons.

In principle, all parameters that are present in {{term}} and {{l}} are also supported by this template. Parameters that apply to the individual words in the compound are suffixed with a number, which matches the position where the part appears (the number of the positional parameter). So tr= becomes tr1=, tr2=, tr3= and so on. Parameters which in {{l}} and {{term}} are positional (the alternative display form of the term, and the gloss) are given named parameters with matching numbers. The following are supported:

alt1=, alt2=...

Alternative display form of each part. Because Module:links will strip diacritics from a word when appropriate, this may not always be needed.

tr1=, tr2=...

Transliteration of each part.

t1=, t2=... OR gloss1=, gloss2=...

Translation gloss for each part

pos1=, pos2=...

Part-of-speech gloss for each part.

The lang= parameter determines both the language of the individual parts, and the name of the category to place words in. Sometimes, however, it may not be desirable to add a category at all. For example, if you want to display the parts of a word from one language in the etymology of another language. For this, use nocat=1:

{{compound|fier|ljeppe|t1=far|t2=to leap|lang=fy|nocat=1}}

The above code would be used on the Dutch entry fierljeppen to explain the origin of the West Frisian word fierljeppe without also placing the Dutch entry in Category:West Frisian compound words.

See also

• {{blend}}
• {{prefix}}
• {{suffix}}
• {{confix}}