The Nedj Nedj databases 4 Columns and fields 4.3: 'Source' group of fields

4.3 ‘SOURCE’ GROUP OF FIELDS

The names of the fields in this group are revealed in layout mode.

Fig. 4.31 Source field area in layout mode

Source, page, line

The source group of fields displays the source, together with the page and line number. 

Category, sub-category

The next tier of fields might show a category and subcategory in the green fields: here ‘artefact’ and ‘rope’. The full title of the second category field is {category JS adj}.

Fig. 4.32 Source field for 100

Numeral / number

As can be seen from Figs 4.31 and 4.32 the blue {numeral} field displays an actual number, if that is what the record is about.

Gender

The last field in this group is for recording gender. Nouns, pronouns and adjectives can have gender, evident in the feminine. Thus the feminine form may have a suffix, commonly -et, as seen in the following example, for neferet.

Fig. 4.33 nefer with the feminine suffix -et

transliteration / respelt	English	EngJSM	source	page / line	glyph names	glyphs
(nfrt: nefer-et)	"beautiful woman"	beautiful woman	Gardiner	[574.1:4.2]	<lute viper mouth bun SQUATTESS>

Table 7a neferet — with feminine suffix

Note that the feminine and relative suffixes are both -et and are indistinguishable. The following record is an example of the relative use:

Fig. 4.34 nefer with the relative suffix -et

(nfrt: nefer-et)

"good things"

good what is

Faulkner Concise

[131:10.11]

<lute viper mouth bun PLANE PLURAL>

Table 7b neferet — with relative suffix