Ideally, what kind of information would you like to find when looking up a word?
Here are my own thoughts, make sure to reply with your own!
- Definition(s)
- Sentences
- Synonyms, with short paragraphs explaining how the words compare.
I added a page for āCatā to get the ball rolling.
Hope this actually turns into something!
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Thanks!
My vocab is way too basic to get the dictionary started myself, but I really want to push it forward, so first contributions are going to be very important to gather steam. 
How do searches work in there, cuz when I type in ācatā nothing shows upā¦
I guess this is part of the āSee whether Wikia meets requirementsā point. Iāll look into that.
EDIT: I do get the right result when seaching for cat.
Maybe new pages need some time before they show up in search resultsā¦
In Latin and Germanic languages, etymology is extremely important to me, at times helping a lot more than the definitionsdefinitions, to truly capture the nuances that help distinguish between synonyms, for instance. It is at times blistering clear that two words classified as synonyms really arenāt synonyms, for example.
I do think this project would get more support if it were J2J, not J2Eā¦
I totally agree. This is why knowing the etymology of a word is most of the time the best mnemonic there is for remembering that word (for me at least). This includes all languages (idk why you limited yourself to germanic/latin thereā¦).
Iāve generally decided not to put any energy into this idea, but the whole point was for it to not be J-Jā¦ There are tons of comprehensive, free J-J dictionaries in the world. Thereās no reason for non-natives to make one.
Iām thrilled to see it has been started! =D
I sure hope we can join together and make a brilliant resource here =^_^=
I love antonyms, it could be included on some of the more descriptive words at lest. In English I often look up both synonyms and antonyms =)
And what about homonyms? Japan has such a HUGE amount of homonyms, that knowing one and getting a list of words with same spelling (in kana at least, they will probably differ in Kanji) will help a lot, cause you already know the word, just add another meaning to your memory bank. The homonyms should link to the pages of those words to see better definitions and all the rest =)
Why is that? 
Simply searching for the reading will probably yield good results, Iāll look if we can get better than that.
Ah, if we can search both ways that does help =)
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I guess that if we had different words for ćć, all would appear here.
EDIT: I added åē« to see what the search will yield.
Oh! If you ever need photos you are free to use my stock. stock photos
These are all my photos and I allow them to be used freely on this wiki =)
Also, I take requests too =)
Since we can only use image with permission =^_^=
I can take photos of a few animals at the moment: Cat, dog, gerbil, mouse, chinchilla and soon snake (on a waiting list for milk snake)
Iām on my way out right now. I can try look in to how to add images later today or tomorrow. But feel free to pick any you like and have them added as needed =)
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Because at my current level, etymology in Japanese will get me nowhere 
. Etymology works great if you have some idea of what the roots mean and how words can be related. At my level in Japanese, etymology would just be like fun facts where Iād make superficial links and probably establish a bunch of false assumptions.
Why wonāt I be doing anything with it? Because of concerns that itās nearly impossible to make it as good as I would like it to be.
A lot of times etymology really helps me out with kanji meanings and readingsā¦
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well this post became a barren wasteland quick
Unfortunately, it did.
Iāll keep trying to add a word here and there when I have some time, to bootstrap this thing, because I still think it has a lot of potential.
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