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<etym>

etymology

encloses the etymological information in a dictionary entry.

Module dictionariesDITPET

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.lexicographic @expand@split@value@location@mergedIn@opt
att.datcat @datcat@valueDatcat@targetDatcat
att.lexicographic.normalized @norm@orig
att.typed @type@subtype

Classes and content

Member of
model.entryPartmodel.entryPart.top
May contain

analysis

certainty

core

dictionaries

drama

figures

gaiji

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

core

dictionaries

namesdates

Note

May contain character data mixed with any other elements defined in the dictionary tag set.

There is no consensus on the internal structure of etymologies, or even on whether such a structure is appropriate. The etym element accordingly simply contains prose, within which names of languages, cited words, or parts of words, glosses, and examples will typically be prominent. The tagging of such internal objects is optional.

Examples

<entry>
  <form>
    <orth>publish</orth> ... </form>
  <etym>
    <lang>ME.</lang>
    <mentioned>publisshen</mentioned>,
    <lang>F.</lang>
    <mentioned>publier</mentioned>, <lang>L.</lang>
    <mentioned>publicare,
publicatum</mentioned>. <xr>See <ref>public</ref>; cf. 2d <ref>-ish</ref>.</xr>
  </etym>
</entry>
 (From: Webster's Second International)

<entry>
  <form>
    <orth>Handschuh</orth> ... </form>
  <etym type="compounding">
    <oRef>Hand</oRef> (<pRef notation="ipa">ˈhant</pRef>): <gloss>hand</gloss>,
    <etym type="metaphor">
      <oRef>Schuh</oRef> (<pRef notation="ipa">ʃuː</pRef>): <gloss>shoe</gloss>
    </etym>
  </etym>
</entry>

Content model

<content>
    
      <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
        <textNode/>
        <classRef key="model.gLike"/>
        <classRef key="model.global"/>
        <classRef key="model.inter"/>
        <classRef key="model.phrase"/>
        <elementRef key="def"/>
        <elementRef key="etym"/>
        <elementRef key="gramGrp"/>
        <elementRef key="lbl"/>
        <elementRef key="usg"/>
        <elementRef key="xr"/>
      </alternate>
    
  </content>