Thiorosan: Phase 0 of the English pass: triage all 711 glosses into lemmas, senses and non-lemmas, ranked by how many languages share each

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Phase 0 of the English pass: triage all 711 glosses into lemmas, senses and non-lemmas, ranked by how many languages share each

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This page is the worklist for giving every Yezuri word an English entry to be translated from — the hub-language pass described at [[Yezur Wiki:Dictionary structure]]. It is a '''proposal''': the triage below was made mechanically and then by judgement, and the operator rules.

== Where the number comes from ==

The '''Lexemes''' table holds 4,284 non-English lexemes carrying '''711''' distinct glosses. Of those, 42 already have an English entry.

Glosses do not map one-to-one onto lemmas. Thirty-seven are a head word with a sense in brackets — ''bone (body part)'' beside ''bone (material)'' — and every one of those head words is already a gloss in its own right, so they add '''senses''', not pages. Collapsing them leaves '''638''' settled lemmas and '''36''' glosses that needed a judgement call.

'''598 lemmas still want an entry.''' Ranked by how many languages share the gloss, since that is how much a translations box is worth:

{| class="wikitable"
! Languages sharing the gloss !! Lemmas !! Note
|-
| 10–11 || 163 || core vocabulary; the richest boxes
|-
| 6–9 || 23 ||
|-
| 3–5 || 281 ||
|-
| 1–2 || 131 || a box here has one or two rows
|}

== The 36 judgement calls ==

=== Treat as an English lemma ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Gloss !! Languages !! Lemma !! Why
|-
| ''-er, person affix'' || 1 || English suffix, at [[Dictionary:-er|-er]]
|-
| ''-ness'' || 3 || English suffix
|-
| ''a, an'' || 1 || at a
|-
| ''be born'' || 3 || phrasal verb
|-
| ''bite, eat'' || 1 || at bite; the eat sense is a second definition
|-
| ''body hair'' || 3 || compound noun
|-
| ''female, woman'' || 1 || at female
|-
| ''give up'' || 1 || phrasal verb
|-
| ''head louse'' || 3 || compound noun
|-
| ''high tide'' || 3 || compound noun
|-
| ''lie down'' || 10 || phrasal verb
|-
| ''low tide'' || 3 || compound noun
|-
| ''male, man'' || 1 || at male
|-
| ''old man'' || 3 || multi-word noun
|-
| ''old woman'' || 3 || multi-word noun
|-
| ''open sea'' || 1 || compound noun
|-
| ''to voyage'' || 1 || at voyage — the to is an infinitive marker, not part of the word
|-
| ''today, now, at this time'' || 1 || at today
|-
| ''tomorrow, the day after'' || 2 || at tomorrow
|-
| ''whole, full'' || 1 || at whole
|-
| ''yesterday, the day before'' || 2 || at yesterday
|-
| ''young man'' || 3 || multi-word noun
|-
| ''young woman'' || 3 || multi-word noun
|}

=== A sense of an existing lemma, not a page of its own ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Gloss !! Languages !! Belongs at
|-
| ''flowing water'' || 3 || ''water''
|-
| ''hand and forearm'' || 4 || ''arm''
|-
| ''know how'' || 1 || ''know''
|-
| ''mangrove swamp'' || 1 || ''swamp''
|-
| ''mother's brother'' || 4 || ''uncle''
|-
| ''the right, entitlement'' || 1 || ''right''
|-
| ''we two'' || 4 || ''we (dual)''
|-
| ''yearly flood'' || 2 || ''flood''
|}

=== Not an English lemma at all ===
These gloss what an affix ''does''. The affix entries keep them as definitions; no English page follows.

{| class="wikitable"
! Gloss !! Languages !! Reason
|-
| ''abstract noun'' || 1 || describes what a suffix derives
|-
| ''adverbial marker'' || 1 || a grammatical label
|-
| ''person affix'' || 2 || describes what an affix does, not an English word
|-
| ''result noun'' || 2 || describes what a suffix derives
|}

=== Needs a ruling ===
* ''he/she/it/etc'' (4 languages) — English has no single lemma covering all three; needs a ruling

== Open questions ==

# '''Do the 1–2 language lemmas earn a page?''' A translations box with a single row states little. They could be deferred until a second language shares the gloss.
# '''How far down the ranking does this pass go?''' The 10–11 band is the natural first tranche.
# '''Reciprocity.''' [[Yezur Wiki:Dictionary structure]] holds that a foreign entry links back to its English lemma with <code><nowiki>{{d|word|YXS-EN}}</nowiki></code>. Most of the 4,284 foreign entries carry a plain gloss instead, so honouring this in full is roughly four thousand edits — mechanical, and arguably the same job as the deferred inflected-form bot.

== First tranche ==

The 163 lemmas whose gloss is shared by ten or eleven languages:

:all, and, animal, ash, at, back, bad, bark, because, belly, bite, blow, breast, breathe, burn, cold, come, correct, count, cut, dig, dirty, drink, dry, dull, dust, ear, egg, fall, far, fat, fear, feather, few, fight, fingernail, fish, five, float, flow, flower, fly, fog, foot, forest, four, fruit, full, grass, green, guts, hair, head, heart, heavy, here, hold, horn, how, hunt, husband, if, in, kill, knee, know, lake, laugh, leaf, left, leg, live, liver, louse, many, meat, mountain, mouth, narrow, near, neck, night, nose, not, old, one, other, person, play, pull, push, rain, right, river, root, rope, rotten, round, rub, salt, sand, say, scratch, sea, seed, sew, sharp, short, sing, sit, skin, sky, smell, smoke, smooth, snake, some, spit, split, squeeze, stab, stand, star, stick, stone, straight, suck, swell, swim, tail, that, there, they, thick, thin, think, this, three, throw, tie, tongue, tooth, turn, two, vomit, walk, wash, we, wet, what, when, where, who, wide, wife, wind, wing, wipe, with, worm, year, yellow, you

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