Gramatik

EXPLANATION OF THE ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGNS USED IN THE DICTIONARY.

• a. adjective.
• ad. adverb.
• anat. anatomy.
• art. article.
• astr. astronomy.
• bot. botany.
• c. conjunction.
• cf. compare.
• chem. chemistry.
• e. g. for instance.
• fig. figurative.
• i. interjection.
• intr. intransitive.
• med. medicine.
• n. substantive, noun.
• nr. numeral.
• p. preposition.
• part. participle.
• plur. plural.
• pr. pronoun.
• pr. d. demonstrative pronoun.
• pr. ind. indefinite pronoun.
• pr. int. interrogative pronoun.
• pr. pers. personal pronoun.
• pr. rel. relative pronoun.
• sing. singular.
• tr. transitive.
• v. verb.

Words containing a hyphen, e. g. grand-patr, grandfather, are compounded of two roots; the hyphen need not be employed in the actual use of the language, e. g. grandpatr.

Prefixes and suffixes of derivatives are printed in italics, e. g. prototip, prototype; bonitet, goodness.

If a word in parentheses immediately follows a derived Neutral word, e. g. “absolution, n., absolvasion (absolusion);” either form may be used.

On the Neutral-English side the root of the Neutral word occurs but once; the suffixes in italics which follow should be added to the root to form words, e. g. “dorm, n., sleep. -ar, v., to sleep” read: dorm, n., sleep. dormar, v., to sleep.—“kolektar, v., to collect. -ad n., collection” read: kolektar, v., to collect. kolektad, n., collection.

The letters in parentheses given after the names of the chemical elements, e. g. Fe in “fer, n., iron (Fe);” indicate the symbols used in chemical formulæ.