Cool; no idea what is the appropriate thing to do in that case; just go with the first element? That seems to be insufficiently a principled decision.

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Cool; no idea what is the appropriate thing to do in that case; just go with the first element? That seems to be insufficiently a principled decision.

For nōn, that's probably the best choice, since nōn syntactically and semantically patterns with Sanskrit na, OCS ne, OIrish ní and the like, and not with words meaning "one". I agree, though, that this seems a very touch-and-go rule that won't apply to everything. (We could just decide to live with this...semantics are fuzzy, after all.)

If we're using a master list of roots to construct this, maybe it's better to break each word down into its constituent parts and turn such words into disambiguation pages of a sort? I know travisb recommended using a real database, not ad-libbing a spreadsheet. I don't know how to do databases, but I can certainly try to learn.

Well, databases are also a bit crap. If spreadsheets (and the contents of their cells, more importantly) are formatted in a consistent way, we can transform them to RDF and have a nice queryable data structure. Not that this part is easy, but it's doable and (I'd argue) doesn't need to be as rigorous as database design is.

quoting Morrígan, Countess:

Well, databases are also a bit crap. If spreadsheets (and the contents of their cells, more importantly) are formatted in a consistent way, we can transform them to RDF and have a nice queryable data structure. Not that this part is easy, but it's doable and (I'd argue) doesn't need to be as rigorous as database design is.

Can you PM me your Gmail address so I can add you to the list of approved editors?

I think you did already, I haven't been in there in while, so busy. I need to start developing an ontology to handle this stuff anyway, but that's gonna be a lot of work.

Have you gotten my PM?

And responded to it this morning. I think using a master index is probably the way to go, after more consideration. The only downside is if there are dupes in the old master lexicon (there are).

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I have Beekes; it should be easy to use the index to build a new version of the spreadsheet. I used the Indo-Iranian dictionary too; Celtic might be based heavily on Masatovic, I've not been on that site in a while. I have a PDF of that book though.

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Yeah, sorry, it is the verbs one.

I have these PDFs

I do have the raw version of that as a spreadsheet, I'll try to find the original and post it.

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how dare you leave out old frisian

pst it's medieval

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[erect dad]

i tried to find funny anagrams but erect dad beats them all... may the gods smile upon pthagnar's soul this day.

I'm resurrecting this thread because I will be on Christmas Break starting on Friday, and that will give me a lot of time to input things from dictionaries. Morrígan, is there any chance of us having a firmer grasp on what that will look like?