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Headwords in all genders #343

Open funderburkjim opened 3 years ago

funderburkjim commented 3 years ago

In an email, a user made the following suggestion.

She was trying to find 'bAdhA' in MW. (HK transliteration)

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However, the feminine form is listed as subordinate to a masculine form 'bAdha', and 'bAdhA' is not found when searching for headwords in MW.

The suggestion in this case would be to at least show the 'bAdha' entry when searching for 'bAdhA' .

I mentioned (1) simple search and (2) advanced search prefix search as workarounds to the problem.

But thought this suggestion should be mentioned for possible future consideration.

gasyoun commented 3 years ago

But thought this suggestion should be mentioned for possible future consideration.

How far is the future? Was not enough in the past done with the feminine forms been done? So subordinate feminines are still buried deep. I'm interested mostly in two things - headwords (the more, the better + clean) and verbs. So how can I help in this quantitative direction?

Andhrabharati commented 3 years ago

So how can I help in this quantitative direction?

What a question?

You could just take the task into your hands, and try "finding/identifying" all those "hidden" forms & report to Jim to take suitable action to make them "visible". (He would devise a suitable way himself to do so.)

gasyoun commented 1 year ago

@funderburkjim we are not yet back to the future, are we?