So two things have surprised me this year. It doesn't take anything at all away from my enjoyment of the game that my favorite team, the Mets, stink and when they're eliminated from the pennant race, which lately has been occurring in May, I happily follow the fortunes of all the other teams. Well, I used to be, before my BE got too out of date.
PLURAL OF ASTERIX SERIES
But I am the kind of nerdy fan who watches the World Series with the Baseball Encyclopedia on his lap. I loved to play it when I was young, even though I was never any good, and now I love to follow it. When the Celtics are winning I'm a casual basketball fan, which means for too long now I've been just a baseball fan. The synonym is in blue and serves as a link to the entry in its location in the dictionary.I'm not really much of a sports fan. Lexical relationships such as synonym, specific-general, source-product are also indicated in the dictionary by an abbreviation in aqua-colored letters and in italics. You can click on the links to jump from a word to its variant form and vice versa. The variant form appears in blue and is a link to its place in the dictionary according to its initial letter. The variants are listed in parentheses immediately after the headword or after the plural form of a noun, and indicated by the abbreviations var.lbr. Variants of Latege words are alternate pronunciations from other dialects. The asterix before the remaining part indicates that it is not a grammatically complete form except in the singular form of the imperative, and that normally it is necessary to add at least a subject prefix and a temporal prefix. To see a detailed explanation of the Latege verb structure, see: Le système verbal du latege. In order to find the base form of the verb, remove the ka- and look at the remaining part. When searching for a verb, look for the form saying 'la base'. This will be the infinitive form without a prefix. A verb in the infinitive form in Latege will begin with ka- ( katiga = 'parler' (to speak), katende = 'écrire' (to write). To see an explanation of the nominal classes of Latege, see: The Noun Class System and Noun Phrases of Latege. The numbers that follow the part of speech n indicate the nominal class of the word and its plural form. If there is a singular form, then it will be preceded with the label s g. In some instances the plural form is more common and will be listed as the headword.
In the example, ‘atsika’ is the plural form. If there is a plural form it will be listed after the singular form and preceded with the label p l. In the example above, in order to find the word that means 'boucle d'oreille' (earring), look for the headword ‘t síká’, rather than ‘atsika’, which is the plural. When you want to look up a Latege noun you should look for the singular form of the noun. Homonyms are words that have the same pronunciation and spelling but are unrelated in meaning. The lowered number is used to distinguish what we call homonyms. Occasionally you will notice that the headword is immediately followed by a small lowered number. In this dictionary the various senses are listed under a single Latege headword. Each sense begins with a number followed by a closed parenthesis. These are called senses and are indicated in the dictionary by sense numbers. Sometimes, words have multiple distinct meanings, like in the next example "-tsúa". In the first example given above, the Latege word, ‘ Tswí’, only has one meaning. Finally, in brackets there may be other details such as the semantic category for the word. Sometimes, after the semicolon is a Latege sentence in italic in blue font and a translation into French to help in comprehension. Third is the definition(s) which shows the meaning of the Latege headword. Multiple definitions that are similar are separated by commas and end with a semicolon. (See the List of Abbreviations where these are expanded) In the example at the right, the grammatical category is noun and the word belongs to noun classes 5 (singular) and 6 (plural). Second is the part of speech in abbreviated form in italic type. First is the latege headword in blue which is followed by its phonetic pronunciation in brackets and the plural form in blue. A Latege entry consists of at least three parts.