NounType: NounType
This applies to nodes of type NOUN and PROPN.
Chr: chrematonyms
These are proper names that refer to publications and other creative works. Multiword chrematonyms tagged PROPN are usually borrowings from English. Song titles like Òran na Cloiche and Nach truagh leat mi ‘s tu ‘n Eirinn are tagged with their usual grammatical structure.
Examples
- Gairm
- Scottish Studies
Cmn: common nouns
These are nouns that are usually written in lower case and refer to things in general.
They may be concrete or abstract.
Most of the words in ARCOSG with an XPOS starting Nc are common nouns but there are a few exceptions.
Examples
- dùil “expectation”
- àite “place”
- phàipeir “paper” - lenited and slenderised form, in the dative case.
- ainmean “names” - plural form.
Eth: ethnonyms
These are proper names that refer to groups of people.
Examples
- Leòdhasaich “people from Lewis”
- Sasannach “Englishman”
- Uibhistich “people from Uist”
Glt: glottonyms
These are proper names that refer to languages.
Examples
- Beurla “English”
- Fraingis “French”
- Gàidhlig “Gaelic”
Nau: nautonyms
These are proper names that refer to boats and are often toponyms and the English-language name may be used in news items.
Examples
- Loch Bhrusda “Loch Bhrusda”
Nos: nosonyms
These are proper names that refer to diseases and are usually abbreviations. Longer expressions like an galar ronnach “foot and mouth disease” or an cnatan mòr “flu” are tagged with their usual grammatical structure.
Examples
- AIDS
- ISA = Infectious Salmon Anaemia
Org: organisational names
These are proper names referring to organisations.
Usually they are abbreviations.
The convention used by the BBC is to give the English-language abbreviation, say RSPB but translate the name, here Comann Rìoghail Dìon nan Eun “Royal Society for the Protection of Birds”.
In this case RSPB is PROPN but the longer expression is tagged with the normal grammatical structure.
Examples
- CalMac short for Caledonian MacBrayne
- NATO
Prs: personal names
These are proper nouns referring to people.
They are often multiword expressions and individual parts may be tagged PART or DET or ADJ.
In ARCOSG they are tagged with XPOS beginning Nn.
Examples
- Jack Straw
- Ealasaid Nic Ille Bhàin
- Mac an Deòir
Top: toponyms
These are proper nouns referring to places, be they settlements, countries, lochs, mountains or rivers.
They do not show as much case variation as common nouns in modern Scottish Gaelic and typically show the genitive by merely leniting.
Most of the tokens in ARCOSG tagged with XPOS Nt are toponyms.
They can be single words or multiple words joined with the flat:name relation.
Examples
- Bàgh a’ Chaisteil “Castlebay”
- Bharraigh “Barra”, lenited form
NounType in other languages: [azz] [ga] [gd] [koi] [kpv] [mdf] [myv] [nci] [nhi] [quc] [sq] [u]