Defects and limitations

There are some known defects in the dictionary, which I hope to address. First, when you use the floating menu bar to go to the section for the section starting “k”, you have to scroll up a little to see the first entry since the bar is on top of the first line or two (programming problem). Second, some spellings are defective, for example ‘mud’ is listed as ovodoshi (because that is how it is pronounced for many speakers), but I believe that h rather than sh would be more standard. These are matters that can be resolved with more labor. Third, if you want to search for something (the root -lag- or the word meaning “cow”, you can use your browser’s search, but you can’t limit the search to “just the spelling entry”. This is a fundamental limitation of this kind of dictionary page (a programming limit). 

Finally, the goal is to put all instances of a root physically together, but this doesn’t quite happen for two reasons. One is that suffixes interrupt the ordering of words. The root meaning ‘law, agree’ figures into at least 3 words, but ‘law’ which has a suffix -o is ordered after the root -laagil­ ‘eat ugali’. 

Second, sometimes the linguistically-proper root is not identified via the prefix-chopping method. The word endolelo ‘pupil of eye’ is clearly derived from the root -lol- ‘see’, but it is alphabetized near ko-doola ‘pick up’ and izin-doolo ‘sleep’. I expect a solution to be developed eventually.

Comments and questions can be sent to logoori.project@gmail.com.