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non-lemma

noun

Etymology

From non- + lemma.

  1. derived from λῆμμα
  2. prefixed as non-lemma — “non + lemma”

Definitions

  1. Any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma.

    • According to Schmauder (1991) they had a narrow range of frequency of occurrence (our nonlemma count yields an average of 68; Francis & Kucera, 1982).
    • Prep. … Prenominal adjectives … Non lemmas … Basque multiword … English multiwords … English unknown … Others 11% … 21% … 7% … 5% … 17% … 16% … 21%
    • If the database is to be printed out in the form of a dictionary, non-lemmas can be generated from the items contained in these fields.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for non-lemma. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA