Variant: alternative form of word
| Values: | Long | Short |
Sometimes there are multiple word forms for the same lemma and set of features.
The Variant feature helps distinguish alternate forms.
In Erzya there is one group of words where double forms are regular and worth capturing:
short forms of pronouns in the dative case. The frequency is very high for Short forms, whereas
Long forms, as indicated by their name physically show a pronoun.
This feature marks both the short forms and the long forms, hence there are the values, Short and Long.
Long: short form of personal pronouns both reflex and non-reflex
Examples
- монень “to me”, тонеть “to you”, сонензэ “to him/her/it”, миненек “to us”, тыненк “to you”, сыненст “to them”
- монстень “to me myself”, тонстеть “to you yourself”, сонстензэ “to him himself/her herself/it itself”, минстенек “to us ourselves”, тынстенк “to you yourselves”, сынстенст “to them themselves”
Short: short form of personal pronouns both reflex and non-reflex
Examples
- тень “to me”, теть “to you”, тензэ “to him/her/it”, тенек “to us”, тенк “to you”, тенст “to them”
- эстень “to me myself”, эстеть “to you yourself”, эстензэ “to him himself/her herself/it itself”, эстенек “to us ourselves”, эстенк “to you yourselves”, эстенст “to them themselves”
Variant in other languages: [be] [cs] [cu] [de] [koi] [kpv] [la] [lt] [mdf] [myv] [orv] [pl] [ps] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sl] [uk]