Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Scilicet in Cordova dictionary entries

In the Cordova dictionary of Colonial Valley Zapotec, the abbreviation scillicet means 'that is, for example'.  In the Spanish orthography of the time, this is the long s followed by a period.  In Thom Smith Stark's markup, this is {¥s[cilicet].}

Here is a screenshot of a sample Cordova entry that uses this.




Almoçadas means something like 'handfuls' in Spanish.  The FLEx entry that shows my best guess of the correct interpretation of the Cordova entry is as follows:


I think the o in front of the word xoopa is probably Spanish o 'or'.

This example shows some of the difficulties of deciphering all the information that Cordova includes in his entries!

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