| KEY | |
| + | preceding or elided with (depending on context) |
| > | points forward to a syntactically connected word e.g. >pr q.v. or in negative construction to following multiple negators, e.g. neg-v>av>neithernor etc. (Lexical items included in such Grammels are listed in the Lexel key.) |
| < | indicates postposition of an expected preposed form and points backward to a syntactically connected word, e.g. in multiple negation. |
| >= | coordinating with <= |
| <= | coordinating with >= e.g. "neither...nor", "as...as", "both...and", "then...when", etc. |
| 01 | polite 1st plural, the royal "we". |
| 02 | polite 2nd plural, i.e. plural for singular |
| 03 | rare occasions when there is ambiguity about whether the subject is 3rd singular or plural |
| 11 | singular 1st person |
| 12 | singular 2nd person |
| 13 | singular 3rd person |
| 21 | plural 1st person |
| 22 | plural 2nd person |
| 23 | plural 3rd person |
| A | (1) indefinite article (2) animate (human), e.g. RTA = relative marker "who" |
| aa | rare occasions when a participle is used like a Latin ablative absolute |
| ad | after dental (e.g. DisN-ad demonstrative adj nom following final <t> <d> ) |
| aj | adjective (nominative = default) |
| av | adverb or adverbial function |
| +C | preceding a consonant initial word (not <h>), e.g. P11GN+C = personal pronoun 1st person singular genitive (i.e. "my") as nominative adjective before a consonant initial word |
| cj | conjunction |
| cpv | comparative (e.g.aj-cpv) |
| D | dual |
| [D] | attached to a suffix label, indicates a preceding stem final [t, d] |
| D-cpv | demonstrative + comparative e.g. "the better" |
| Dat | demonstrative "that" (default = adjective) |
| Dat-pl | demonstrative "that" with plural verb |
| def | definite, e.g. pn-def = "the other" |
| Des | demonstrative "these" (default = adjective) |
| Dis | demonstrative "this" (default = adjective) |
| Dos | demonstrative "those" (default = adjective) |
| [F] | attached to a suffix label, indicates a preceding stem final [f] |
| F | (1) feminine reference (not grammatical gender) (2) following a verbal suffix label, French "-er" or "re" type |
| Fier | following a verbal suffix label, French "-ier" type |
| Fir | following a verbal suffix label, French "-ir" type |
| G | genitive |
| [H] | attached to a suffix label, indicates a preceding stem final [x] |
| +H | preceding a word initial <h> |
| I | inanimate (sometimes animate but non-human, i.e. "it" - not grammatical gender) |
| im | infinitive marker, "to" etc. |
| imp | imperative |
| indef | indefinite e.g. aj-indef = "another" |
| [J] | attached to a suffix label, indicates a preceding stem final [j] |
| [K] | attached to a suffix label, indicates a preceding stem final velar stop |
| k | compound (e.g. aj-k = compound adjective) |
| K2 | attached to a verb suffix label, class II weak type "-ian"(though some verbs marked K2 may originally have belonged to class III weak type (see Campbell 1959: §763); the presence of "-i-" in the suffix is what is primarily being noted. |
| K2[1] | attached to a verb suffix label, indicates a historical class I verb in "-ian". |
| M | masculine reference (not grammatical gender) MX mental reflexive, e.g. "to bethink oneself". See also s.v. X |
| [N] | attached to a suffix label, indicates a preceding stem final nasal |
| N | nominative |
| NX | reflexive functioning as subject. See also s.v. X |
| n | noun (nominative = default) |
| neg-v | preverbal negative "ne", etc |
| neg-v>= | preverbal negator coordinating with postverbal negator "not" (tagged as not/av-neg<=) i.e. "ne..not" |
| neg-v> | preverbal negator followed by one or more negators other than "not", as specified |
| Od | direct object (accusative) |
| Oi | indirect object |
| [P] | attached to a suffix label, indicates a preceding stem final [p] |
| P | personal pronoun |
| +P | attached to a verb label indicates a post-clitic pronoun |
| pl | plural |
| pn | pronoun (other than personal) |
| pr | preposition or postposition |
| pr+T | preposition elided with following definite article e.g. ATTE = "at the" |
| <pr | in the scope of a preposition (whether or not the preposition historically governs old accusative or old dative case) |
| >pr | in the scope of a postposition |
| qc | quantifier cardinal |
| qo | quantifier ordinal |
| [R] | attached to a suffix label, indicates a preceding stem final liquid |
| [r] | attached to the grammel of a suffix of a word with stem final <r> where the suffix includes a superscript vowel (usually ^E, sometimes ^I, as abbreviations for <re> <ri>), indicates that the ^E or ^I of the suffix includes the notional <r> of the stem: e.g MAIST^ES "masters" — $/pln[r]_+^ES; yEOST+^IT "darkens" — $/vps23[r]K2_+^IT. |
| {rh} | occurs in rhyming position |
| RT | relative marker |
| RTA+is | relative marker animate elided with "is" |
| RTApl+in | relative marker animate plural elided with "in" |
| RTI+is | relative marker inanimate (non-human) elided with "is" |
| [S] | attached to a suffix label, indicates a preceding stem final [s, z] |
| S | after v (verb) indicates non-weak, i.e. strong or 'anomalous' |
| sup | superlative (e.g. aj-sup = superlative adjective) |
| T | definite article |
| t | title, e.g. $king/n-t in "king Henry" |
| [V] | attached to a suffix label, indicates a preceding stem final vowel |
| +V | preceding a vowel initial word |
| v | verb |
| vi | verb infinitive |
| vi-m | verb infinitive following infinite marker, "to" etc. |
| vn | verbal noun |
| voc | vocative (e.g. n-voc = noun used in vocative function) |
| vpp | verb non-strong past participle |
| vpp-aj | verb non-strong past participle functioning as adjective |
| vpp-pl | plural marked participle after auxiliary "be" |
| vps | verb present tense |
| vps13-ct | verb present tense 3rd singular, contracted form of any type |
| vpsp | verb present participle |
| vpsp-aj | verb present participle functioning as adjective |
| vpt | verb past tense |
| vsjps | verb present subjunctive |
| vsjpt | verb past subjunctive |
| vSpp | verb non-weak past participle (either the past participle of a strong verb or any other non-weak participle) |
| vSpp-aj | verb non-weak past participle functioning as adjective |
| vSpp-pl | plural marked non-weak participle after auxiliary "be" |
| [W] | attached to a suffix label, indicates a preceding stem final [w] |
| X | reflexive, either object with a coreferent subject e.g. "thou lettest thyself alone" ($/P12OdX), or appositional, e.g. "I myself" ($/P11X), cf. also MX and NX |
| xp | prefix |
| xs | suffix |