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I strengthened the concept base of Panlexia and added 4689 base concepts from EuroWordNet and BalkaNet . It is an old list from 2006 and the concepts were Wordnet 2.0 synsets, so first I had to upgrade them to Wordnet 3.0, which is used by Panlexia. Fortunately the Collaborative Interlingual Index ...

Finally I decided to adopt the pronoun forms hi 'he or she; him or her' and de 'they; them'.

hi is a compromise between English masculine and feminine pronoun forms he /hi:/, she /ʃi:/, him , her , his and her(s) . 5/6 forms begin with h - and 4/6 forms have a kind of i vowel. hi is what you get ...

I think that both 'he' and 'de' are good enough


I appreciate that opinion! Your other idea about im has occurred to other too.

There are six third person pronoun forms in English (besides the so called singular they ).


he (masculine subjective)
she (feminine subjective)
him (masculine ...

We had a long and heated debate about the pronoun /hə/ in Reddit and Discord forums. Most of it was because of its unfortunate spelling, he , which looks exactly like the English masculine pronoun. I summarize here some of my thinking.

My main point was and is that he is a compromise form of the ...

Panglo came out already 9 months ago. Since then one thing has confused many people: Why da is both the 3rd person singular pronoun ('he, she') and the demonstrative pronoun ('this, that')? Its usage seems to confuse people because it has so broad meaning.

The reason why I made this design choice ...

I promise not to conflate the two in Pandunia dictionary. However, the Pandunia word for god in general is deo and consequently the "ism" or the doctrine related to it is deisme due to normal word derivation. The definition of deisme is 'the doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods ...

Concept id mapping is now in data/id_map.tsv.

Today I found out that also Concepticon includes translations, see the files in the mappings folder.

seweli wrote: ↑2025-01-03 20:01 What do we do with the two PLX:that.pro in eng-definition.tsv ?

Oops! Let's change the other to PLX:which.pro.

Which one "house" concept will get the number 1 and why?


From Panlexia's point of view the number is opaque i.e. we don't know and we don't care! :D But if you really want to know, the number comes from Wordnet. Let's use the Python terminal to find out. First, let's list all Wordnet synsets ...

Creating concept ids by semantic categorization turned out to be too big work and also in some sense a futile goal. Semantic and thematic categorization of concepts is interesting in itself, but it's probably better to tackle it as a separate work. We need the concept ids only to link definitions ...