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April 27

Quelccaya

Some claim it means "snow plain". But I couldn't find a proof for this. This dictionary contains no words which may sound and mean something close to that (I searched at least for "nieve" and "nevad*").--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk)

That name sounds like it would be a native name transliterated into Spanish orthography. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 07:55, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure whether that's going to help, but the quechua wikipedia article on the Quelccaya Ice Cap is qu:Qillqaya_Rit'ipampa. "Snow" is qu:Rit'i, so "snow plain" appears to be the translation of Rit'ipampa, not Qillqaya/Quelccaya. And qu:Qillqay would be Writing, but obviously I have no idea whether there is a connection and what that might be... --Wrongfilter (talk) 08:11, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Wrongfilter: Thanks! The idea that there might be an article in Quechua didn't even come to my mind! Before posting my question I had already seen rit'i, pampa, qillqay in the dictionary, but they all together didn't make any sense. Now at least I'm sure what part of the name actually means "snow plain". The first part may be something figurative or not Quechua at all. It seems I have to investigate it myself.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk)

I think "qillqaya" means literature, referring mostly to pictorial symbols painted on stone. —Stephen (talk) 02:24, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Translation or explanation, please

Hello, I'm a french speaking contributor and I found the phrase «They are not mounted in one sleeve» in the entry about the BL 4 inch Mk IX naval gun. What does this mean?
Thank you. Dhatier (talk) 22:04, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Here's an explanation of "sleeve" that I found. I suppose the idea is that with each gun independently movable they required a lot of crew working in a small space to operate them. --69.159.62.113 (talk) 07:34, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

this makes sense. Thank you. Dhatier (talk) 13:52, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]