[Lexicog] How do you build a definition?

[Mike Sangrey]

If you were explaining to an average person how a field lexicographer
comes up with a definition of a word (say, of an currently undocumented
language--at least one without a dictionary), how would you do it?
What's the process?

-- 
Mike Sangrey                               (msangrey AT BlueFeltHat.org)
Exegetitor.blogspot.com
Landisburg, Pa.
                        "The first one last wins."
            "A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."



 
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