Entering Multiple Senses of a word

[KMarie]

Hello,

I am using version 3.0.4 of Miromaa and I was wondering how to enter in multiple senses of a word. For example in my language Karifuna, the verb "sapota" can mean to rot, deteriorate or decay. I would like to enter these three senses under the one word but I'm not sure how to do that unless I write all three words on the English line. I tried creating a separate entry for each sense but Miromaa doesn't seem to like that.

[Daryn McKenny]

Hi,

This is where Miromaa will differ with some of its function over other linguist programs, we have our reasons why we do it this way, but we can explain those later.

So to answer your question, you could create a custom field in options and label it "other senses" for example and then go to that tab and enter them in, you could seperate each sense by a ";" for example. Or, by using the available 9 fields create "sense 1" "sense 2" etc.

First and foremost, Miromaa is used to gather all evidence of language from all sources, by using the methodology that we have in place it enables you to build up word lists from the various sources whether they be speakers, books, old audio recordings etc.

If you have skype, we can chat on this at anytime which could be helpful for both of us.

Daryn

[Daryn McKenny]

I have attached an example screenshot of how it may look.  This is also the procedure that we are currently considering for the import from a MDF file from toolbox/lexique pro etc.

[KMarie]

Thanks a lot! I'll try that.

[languagegeek]

This is an example of something I may have asked elsewhere. By using the custom fields, will these English translations show up in the Learner Mode search? Following KMarie’s example, if the Karifuna word ‹sapota› has its ‘word’ field as “rot”, and the ‘other senses’ field filled with “deteriorate” and “decay”, will one be able to find ‹sapota› by searching for “decay”?

I strongly believe that for the English search to work at all, there have to be allowances for multiple translations. Otherwise, the learner has to guess which English word the lexicographer thought was primary

Chris

[Daryn McKenny]

another twist to the plot which we will add on our list.