[Algonquiana] participle dictionary question

MONICA MACAULAY mmacaula at wisc.edu
Thu Nov 26 12:31:31 UTC 2015


Hey fellow dictionary-makers,

How would you enter something like this:
	ayom payītāqnamapet 'this person who sits facing hither; the presiding officer’
	(from Bloomfield’s Menominee grammar, p. 501)

It seems like it would be useful to have a word for ‘presiding officer’ in the dictionary, but it seems weird to enter it under the demonstrative “ayom” (‘this (animate)’).  But is it misleading to enter it under the participle "payītāqnamapet”?  I have no idea if you could use it without the demonstrative (and can’t ask the one speaker I’m still working with because initial change is long gone in modern Menominee).

The solution I’m thinking of is to enter a cross-reference under “payītāqnamapet” (i.e. it would say “see ayom payītāqnamapet”) and then have "ayom payītāqnamapet” be the main entry.

Has anybody dealt with this issue?

Thanks!

- Monica


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