Dictionary talk:Korneeah

Plural form

Should the plural form of korneeah be korneeahtee or korteeneeah?

While updating the Common Library page, I came across kortee'nea being used. The apostrophe can be assumed to be a result of the 'variant romanisation' form, and the 'nea' rather than 'neea' is likely a mistake, but the positioning of the 'tee' made me wonder if the korneeahtee here is being incorrectly autogenerated and might need to be overruled.

Pharap (talk) 04:46, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

kortee'nea is the spelling used in the books (presumably representing kortee'neeah). I don't think the form korneeahtee is attested anywhere. Talashar (talk) 23:27, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

The book trilogy isn't necessarily the most reliable source for D'ni (cf. 'gahrohertee' instead of 'gahrohevtee'), but if korneeahtee is entirely unattested, that would suggest that this is a case of the template automatically generating an incorrect word, in which case I'll be bold and say "let's overrule it".

The {{dni-noun}} template is presently undocumented, but I think I can decipher enough of the source to discern that the first parameter should act as a kind of 'override' as I would have hoped. I'll have a go at setting the plural to korteeneeah, since that seems to be the appropriate OTS. It can always be reversed if someone comes along later and can attest to it being incorrect.

Pharap (talk) 02:27, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Edit successful. The first parameter of {{dni-noun}} does indeed overrule the plural form.

Pharap (talk) 02:34, 1 August 2024 (UTC)