Updates on Etymology Module

Hi all,

    
I haven't got round to updating the DocBook yet, but I examined
      Bowers and Romary's paper and came up with the following proposed
      model for etymology in LEXIDMA

    

    
      
Both entries and senses can have etymologies (according to
        Jack and Laurent... I am a bit suspicious of sense etymologies
        still)

      
Following Jack and Laurent, it is probably best to have a
        single object 'Etymon' in place of
        derivation/cognate/borrowing/etc. with a type parameter

      
Etymons can have grammatical labels like inflected forms in
        case a particular form is the source of the etymology

      
Etymons can be compounded to handle mixed etymologies (e.g.,
        polylingual from poly- (Greek) and lingua (Latin))

      
Etymologies can have dates associated with them

      
There should be a relation system to connected etymological
        forms with entries, senses and other etymons

      
We should support non-standard language tagging, but this is
        probably part of the Controlled Vocabularies module.

    
    
We can discuss this further on Monday.

    
Regards,

    
John