Yezur Wiki:English lemma worklist
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:
| 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
| Gloss | Languages | Lemma | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| -er, person affix | 1 | English suffix, at -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
| 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 the label as their own definition; no English page follows. Seventeen glosses fall here — the four listed when this page was first written, and thirteen more that surfaced when the pass reached the Andusian and Besoh affixes. Every one is backed only by bound forms, so an English page would have to define an English affix, and English's own affix for the job (-ness, -er, -ery) has the better claim to that page.
| Gloss | Languages | The affixes behind it |
|---|---|---|
| abstract noun | 4 | -ets, -ɛts, -ɛsi |
| adverbial marker | 1 | -due |
| agent | 2 | -so |
| augmentative | 4 | -ge, -gɛ |
| away | 1 | bon- |
| causative | 5 | ᵐbi-, bi-, mi- |
| collective | 4 | -uɣ, -u, -uɣi |
| diminutive | 4 | -dzi, -zi |
| inchoative | 2 | -kɛ, -ke |
| instrument | 4 | -ᵐbu, -mu |
| intensive | 1 | ro- |
| ornative | 1 | -onde |
| person affix | 2 | -aewe, -ayve |
| place | 4 | -õ, -oŋ, -oŋi |
| privative | 5 | sog-, so-, so'- |
| result noun | 2 | -me |
| stative | 2 | -wa, -va |
Held out of the second tranche on that reading. Reversible: seventeen quick pages if the operator would rather have them.
Needs a ruling
- he/she/it/etc (5 languages) — English has no single lemma covering all three.
- Sub-senses with nowhere to put a box. The table above proposes hand and
forearm as a sense of arm, but the one-box-per-heading ruling (Yezur Wiki:Dictionary structure, 2026-08-21) leaves a sub-sense no box of its own. hand and forearm (5 languages) and the right, entitlement (1) consequently have no English hub at all. For the same reason flowing water, know how, mangrove swamp, mother's brother, we two and yearly flood were given pages of their own in the second tranche — against the table above. Either the table or those six pages should give way.
- Dictionary:you defines the singular and the plural but carries one
box, glossed singular; the plural forms yávhe, ιαπα, *ixaβ and *luq have no home. Splitting the heading (Pronoun 1 / Pronoun 2) would give them one, at the price of splitting a word English does not split.
- 797 Lexemes rows carry no gloss at all — but they are not a hole:
every one is a Besoh inflected-form page on the Dictionary:śumu model (712 noun forms, 85 verb forms), which points at its lemma rather than glossing itself. Nothing to hub. Noted here so the count is not mistaken for missing work.
- Two glosses are unqualified where their siblings are qualified, and were placed
by the conservative reading rather than a ruling: *komlit under the combined dull sense, and the light verb forms (annawzhtei and its descendants) under "to give light; to make bright" rather than "to kindle". Both belong on Yezur Wiki:Ambiguous glosses if that reading is wrong.
Open questions — answered
The operator ruled on 2026-09-07:
- Do the 1–2 language lemmas earn a page? Yes — "what is not now can still grow".
- How far down the ranking? All the way.
- Reciprocity? Do it; it may be deferred, but it should be done. Still outstanding: roughly four thousand
{{d|word|YXS-EN}}backlinks. - English etymologies. An English entry shows an etymology only where it is English-internal;
{{etym-missing|YXS-EN}}implies no ===Etymology=== section at all. The 191 empty sections from the first tranche were removed, and the second tranche was written without them.
The seventeen one-way links
Reciprocity is now written both ways: 2,547 foreign entries link back to their
English lemma with {{d|…|YXS-EN}}, 2,900 links in
all. A closure check then asked the other question — does the lemma's box list
the word back? — and found 93 that it did not. Seventy-one were plain omissions
and have been filled; Dictionary:letter was split into two headings, one per
root; *guᵐbɛ was relinked to Dictionary:we two, where its three
descendants already sat.
Seventeen remain, and each wants a ruling rather than an edit. In every one the word's own core sense is a neighbour of the box's, so adding it would break the rule that a language appears in a box only where its core meaning matches.
| Question | Forms | Lemma | What is blocked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Do phrasal lemmas belong in a box? | anka artuz, anke arcis, biet qoethae | yesterday, tomorrow | No box on the wiki carries a multi-word value. Their univerbated descendants are listed and they are not. Four live phrasal lemmas exist in all, the fourth being llei artuz at today. |
| Mass against count | ettuz, ytsis, eces | bone | Each glosses the material, and the box's gloss is the count sense. The lemma's second definition names the material but carries no box of its own. |
| Mass against count | oyt, hoĥ | stone | The same shape. Both were settled once as the stone-as-object words; the box is the material. |
| Singular against plural you | lu', *luq, *luʔ, *luʔi, yávhe | you | The box gloss reads "the person spoken to, one in number" and every slot is already held by the singular. The five plurals have no seat. A second heading would give them one, at the cost of splitting a word English does not split. |
| Locative against containment | ou, uue | in | By the semicolon rule their core is "at a place" rather than "within". |
| One more of the same | sou | at | Its core is the neighbouring sense. |
| A neighbouring kin sense | thysse | child | Its core is the offspring sense, the very case Yezur Wiki:Dictionary structure uses to state the rule. |
Two smaller notes, neither acted on: quites and rayes carry the bare gloss letter while every one of their ancestors is qualified (letter (of the alphabet), letter (missive)) — a case for Yezur Wiki:Ambiguous glosses rather than a silent edit.
Progress
| Tranche | Band | Lemmas | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | 10–11 languages | 153 | published |
| Second | 1–9 languages | 449 | published 2026-09-07 |
| Held | affix labels | 17 | see above |
| Plus 42 English entries that predate the pass. | |||
The second tranche also turned up defects in the first, all now repaired: eleven boxes had silently dropped a language's second word for a gloss (he beside ipe for and; bejuette beside bevhéj for wind; four of the eight you pronouns), and three lemmas were carrying two parts of speech under one heading — Dictionary:fly had "a small two-winged insect" as a second definition under Verb, with the three noun words missing from the wiki entirely, while Dictionary:rain and Dictionary:cold had the wrong part of speech in the box altogether.