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December 30[edit]

What is "Cholegague"?[edit]

The word is found under cumin in the List of herbs and minerals in Ayurveda but almost nowhere else on the Internet. I tried to switch the "u" and "g" in the word to get "Cholegauge" and found among others this web page through Google about liver complaints, also about India. What is the word meant to be? The author of the Wikipedia page (and maybe the source it was copied from?) made several letter transposition mistakes like "heammorhage" instead of "haemmorhage", but I can't figure out what "Cholegague" is supposed to be. It might not be a Western medical word at all ... Graham87 07:46, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's probably supposed to be "cholagogue: a medicine that carries off bile" (OED).--Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:59, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that makes sense. I'll make the change in the article. Graham87 09:06, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, "haemmorhage" is still wrong: the word is "haemorrhage" or "hemorrhage". --Anonymous, 22:55 UTC, December 30, 2007.

More Cyrillic transliteration[edit]

How are the Russian noun Starover (an Old Believer aka Old Ritualist aka Raskolnik) and the adjective staryĭ, "old," spelled in the Cyrillic alphabet? Thanks, anon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.18.17.131 (talk) 16:28, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Старовер" and "старый". Jacques l'Aumône (talk) 18:10, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much! —anon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.18.17.131 (talk) 18:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You can find a free online Russian-English-Russian dictionary at lingvo.ru. Tesseran (talk) 04:36, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

'Y' is how 'ы' transliterates. 'ĭ', of course, is 'й'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AllenHansen (talk • contribs) 20:49, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]