L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #337 2 radical lemmas in Hebrew

MJ. Smith
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edited November 21 in English Forum

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10+ Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post: Allowing two-radical Hebrew roots or one-letter Greek words in a morph search - Logos Forums

The gist of the thread:lemma.h:שֵׁם.1 works and is the full form. 

lemma.h:שֵׁם. Omit the 1 and it still works, with the drop down list giving you the option to select the full form.

lemma:שֵׁם. Omit the h and it fails to work because the list of options is too long i.e. it fails because of a performance driven choice.

The same principle applies to roots.

The take-away: if you are using an abbreviated form in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, or Syriac and it fails, try the full form or at least add the language code before assuming an error.

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  • Lawrence Rafferty
    Lawrence Rafferty Member, Logos Employee Posts: 243

    lemma:שֵׁם. Omit the h and it fails to work because the list of options is too long i.e. it fails because of a performance driven choice.

    The behavior was improved in response to the original forum post. Autocomplete now lists several options for lemma:שֵׁם, including lemma.h:שֵׁם.1, because they have exactly those two consonants.

    However, the (performance driven) limitation remains for prefix matches. e.g. lemma:סר only suggests lemma.h:סַר, but lemma.h:סר (with the .h) will suggest  lemmas beginning with סר, like lemma.h:סַרְעַפָּה.

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