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Usage

This template provides information about when a term was first attested, generally given to the nearest century. The template is placed in the etymology line.

Examples

• Will print "First attested in" if only a single year is given.

  {{etydate|1900}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲ1900

• A second year may be given if there is a considerable gap between attestations.

  {{etydate|1900|1950}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲ1900, but in common usage only as of 1950

• Will print "First attested in the" if any string is given.

  {{etydate|1900s}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲဆေၚ်စပ်ကဵု1900s

  {{etydate|first quarter of the 20th century}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲဆေၚ်စပ်ကဵုfirst quarter of the 20th century

• Can take before and after in the first parameter to indicate that the first attestation was prior to or post the given date.

  {{etydate|before|1900}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်before 1900

  {{etydate|before|1900|second half of the 20th century}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်before 1900, but in common usage only as of ဆေၚ်စပ်ကဵုsecond half of the 20th century

• Can take c in the first parameter for circa. If this is done, the user can add text/numbers according to the above rules.

  {{etydate|c|1900}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲc. 1900

  {{etydate|c|1900|1950}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲc. 1900, but in common usage only as of 1950

  {{etydate|c|1900|second half of the 20th century}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲc. 1900, but in common usage only as of ဆေၚ်စပ်ကဵုsecond half of the 20th century

• A range can be given with r in the first parameter. In this case three parameters are needed.

  {{etydate|r|1900|1910}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲ1900–1910

• This can combine with yet a third date to show a gap in dates.

  {{etydate|r|1900|1910|1950}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲ1900–1910, but in common usage only as of 1950

  {{etydate|r|1900|1910|second half of the 20th century}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲ1900–1910, but in common usage only as of ဆေၚ်စပ်ကဵုsecond half of the 20th century

• c and r can be combined:

  {{etydate|c|r|1900|1920|second half of the 20th century}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲc. 1900–1920, but in common usage only as of ဆေၚ်စပ်ကဵုsecond half of the 20th century

  {{etydate|c|r|1900|1920|c|r|1980|1990}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲc. 1900–1920, but in common usage only as of c. 1980–1990

• Capitalization can be turned off in typical fashion with |nocap=1

  {{etydate|1900|nocap=1}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲ1900

• References can be added using the |ref= parameter. If there are multiple references, |ref2= and |ref3= should be used.

  {{etydate|c|1432|ref=Reference}} ⇒
  မပြာကတ်လဝ်ကၠာအိုတ်ပ္ဍဲc. 1432

• References can then be named using the |refn= parameter. If there are multiple references, |ref2n= and |ref3n= should be used.