GLAWI

Etymologies

Description

etymologies sections occur are at the same level as pos sections. In case of multiple etymologies, the etymologies element may have several etymology children, like, for example, in the articles file or bad. When etymology sections are present, they are numbered (nb attribute) and pos sections mention which etymology they correspond to. An illustration is given below: the entry file has 4 distinct etymologies, the first 3 of them leading to a verb and to a noun.

Etymology sections may provide information such as:

• an attestation date (year or century);
• an etymon and the source language;
• a morphemic decomposition.

Like definitions' glosses and examples and usage notes, etymologies are available under 4 versions:

• the original wikicode;
• a plain text version;
• an XML version that formally encodes various information;
• a syntactic parsing of the text.

The figure below depicts the first etymology of the file entry.

XML structure

<!ELEMENT etymologies (etymology)*> <!ELEMENT etymology (labels?, wiki, xml?, txt?, parsed?)> <!ATTLIST etymology nb CDATA #IMPLIED> Children elements are described in following pages:

• labels in the linguistic labels page;
• wiki, xml, txt and parsed in the page Textual sections.

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