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Glosses

Glosses are either shorthand translations in the metalanguage or glossing abbreviations. In the context of language description, it is important to keep them distinct from the meanings, inflectional values , or derivational processes they express.

GlossTable: glosses.csv

Name/Property Datatype Cardinality Description
ID string

A unique identifier for a row in a table.

To allow usage of identifiers as path components of URLs IDs must only contain alphanumeric characters, underscore and hyphen.


Primary key
Name string

A title, name or label for an entity.

Comment string

A human-readable comment on a resource, providing additional context.