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Henrik Theiling skrev:
Hi! Melroch 'Aestan writes:... Yes, another: # Meyer-L�bke, Wilhelm # # Romanisches etymologisches W�rterbuch. R�ckl�ufiger # Stichwortindex. (Zur 3. Aufl.) / Zusammengestellt von A. # Alsdorf-Boll�e und I. Burr ...Ah, ok. So awefully many books I don't have. :-/
Yes, same here. Are books awfully expensive in Germany too? When I was there around 18 years ago I thought they were at least significantly cheaper than in Sweden, but that's long ago and everything is relative. Anyway "Romanisches etymologisches W�rterbuch" is high on my list of books I'd want an electronic version of, and if there was one, even if it were not a database, the need for a reverse index would be significantly reduced, so on a balance I'd rather urge an electronic edition of the main work than a reissue of the reverse index! (BTW I didn't realize that the reverse index, which I don't have but can consult at the uni library, was based on the same edition which I possess. Hopefully it *can* be used with the earlier editions too.) BTW I find this <http://tinyurl.com/z8yau> online Latin wordlist handy: it is less buggy than the Perseus database, does support substring searches(*) and its output is relatively easy to save as plaintext for further processing. (* It matches the substring in both the Latin lemmata and the English glosses. After saving the output as a textfile the regexp /<searchstring>[^:]*:/ picks out those lines that have the searchstring in the lemma, since the lemma and glosses are separated by a colon.
BTW how should I use SCH with Unicode? >perl schcompile -u <filename>.sch ?Yes, that should work.
BTW I searched your example file to see
how you determine Latin stress. Is this:
# property latin_stress
# first last
# first, [ last ]
# long, [ last ]
# any, [ short ], [ last ]
all there's to it? Does this mean you
don't apply the _muta cum liquida_ rule in
�rj�trunn in spite of its 'classicism'
(no blame, just wondering)? How would you
preserve stress information after it is
lexicalized? I guess one *would* have to
introduce some sort of stressmark into the
string, e.g.
rule "stress mark"
syllable latin_stress
(V:,W) > _'
where ' after a vowel works as stress mark.
**Henrik
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
"Maybe" is a strange word. When mum or dad says it
it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
means "no"!
(Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)