Gloss (transliteration)

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A Gloss–word, phrase, (or syllable), is the dictionary entry for that word. It is composed typically of syllables, (unless a one– word gloss), and the syllables can have different, (2 language) components. For example a babylonian word(s) in the phrase of an Akkadian language gloss. The gloss is then the transliteration into that language. It would be equivalent to the dictionary entry of that word.

[edit] One word, many "glosses" over timeperiods

The dictionary entry of the simplest word-(phrase), for example in Akkadian-(in cuneiform), may have any number of common variants, but then list next, the far more uncommon variants, or a one–of–a–kind gloss known from only one extant example; (confer page: Tamoanchan).