Love: Emulating Print Dictionaries on the Web

Herein some random experiments at marking up entries from various bilingual dictionaries as HTML. I selected a random stack of dictionaries from a university library, and then photographed the entry for the English term "love." (Might as well use a pleasant headword!)

I then proceeded to try to break up the content of each entry into logical parts, and to mark up those parts using HTML (hypertext markup language). I have attempted as much as possible to reuse types of tags and class and id, in order to make the case that varied presentation of similar information structures are possible using only CSS.

Note that this is mostly just a typographical experiment. While it is possible to come recreate traditional print layouts of dictionary entries with reasonably simple and semantic markup, I do not advocate doing so for actual web projects. It often doesn't make sense to apply typographical conventions which arose in order to cope with the space constraints of print dictionaries, when there are effectively no space constraints on the web.

Dakota

ki dĕ ṡá dsi v. t. fr. kidĕṡi and adsi ; to like very much ; to love, but not dearly.

ki dé ṡa ke [kineṡake,] v. t. fr. deṡake ; to destroy, exterminate, banish annul, abrogate, to cure a disease completely, etc.

Trukese

áchengicheng (db; 2) See chengi-. nu. (c., dis.; T2) love, favor, cherish. áchengichengiy me reemw my love of you; áchengichengumw me reey your love of me. Syn. cheni-. vi., adj. (be) dear (esp. in address), beloved á. paapa me maama d. papa and mama.

Tena

trort, love 153.1

-trort (verbal stem), to love, to caress
qaiyŏˈxŏtäc̣tro′rt they caressed him 152.19
qu′ûŏñĭtro′rtsûn, loving them 134.18

Choctaw

love; holitobli, holitopa

love, to; achukma, ahnichi, aⁿhollo, anush-kunna, asitia, ạsseta, hiahni, holitobli, iⁿholitopa, iⁿhollo, kạshaha

Faroese

ást -ar -ir f love, passion, affection: binda á. (ástir) við ein— fall in love with someone; har runnu ástir saman— they fell in love with each other; leggja á (ástir) við— fall in love with; leggja ástir saman— love each other, fall in love mutually.

Thai

รัก (ra'k)

• a tree whose juice is used for gliding น์้า — lacquer
• to love