Editing Ancient Egyptian:Glossing recommendations (section)

== Hands-on transliteration transformation guidelines ==
To '''derive a valid Glossing transcription line''' from an Egyptological transcription line, the follwoing hand-on rules may help.

Compare the following table:
{| class="wikitable"
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! Egyptological <br/>transliteration line !! Glossing <br/>transliteration line !! Examples
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| align="center" rowspan="2" | '''.''' || “-” (if it is a neatly seperable [[Glossing_Rules#Punctuation_period_expert|affix]]) || ''zẖꜢ.t'' → zẖꜢ-t scribe-F ‘(female) scribe’ <br/>''sḏm.tw'' → sḏm-tw hear{{tf}}IPFV-PASS ‘is heard’
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| use “{{TrSep}}” (if rather part of a [[Glossing_Rules#Punctuation_transfix|transfix]]) || ''jr.t'' → jr{{TrSep}}t eye:F ‘eye’ <br/>''ḏd.w'' → ḏd{{TrSep}}w say{{tf}}POST ‘will say’
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| align="center" rowspan="2" | '''s:''' || “CAUS-” <br/>plus translation of the non-causative base lexeme || ''s:jwr'' → s-jwr CAUS-pregnant{{tf}}INF ‘(to) impregnate’
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| leave colon out <br/>plus translation of the causative meaning || ''s:jwr'' → sjwr impregnate{{tf}}INF ‘(to) impregnate’ <br/>''s:ḏd'' → sḏd tell{{tf}}IPFV ‘tell’
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| align="center" | {{Red|'''<nowiki>=</nowiki>'''}} || “-” ([[Glossing_Rules#Punctuation_period_expert|affix]]) || ''sn=s'' → sn-s sn(M)-2SG.F ‘her brother’
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| align="center" rowspan="3" | {{Red|'''-'''}} || “_” (if it is a [[Glossing_Rules#Punctuation_underscore_gloss|fixed phrase]] <br/>that corresponds to one single gloss) || ''wꜢḏ-wr'' → wꜢḏ_wr ocean(M) ‘ocean’
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| two separate words (if it is a fixed phrase, <br/>but the encoder wants to analyse it) || ''wꜢḏ-wr'' → wꜢḏ wr green great ‘ocean’
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| “=” ([[Glossing_Rules#Punctuation_equal_sign|clitic]]; if a ‘Direct Genitive’ compound) || ''ḥm-nṯr'' → ḥm=nṯr servant(M)=god(M) ‘priest’ 
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| align="center" | '''(&nbsp;)''' || leave parentheses out; keep content or leave it out || ''sḏm(.w)'' → sḏm{{TrSep}}w hear{{tf}}POST ‘will hear’<br/>''sḏm(.w)'' → sḏm hear{{tf}}POST ‘will hear’ <br/>''s:ḏd(.t)'' → sḏd{{TrSep}}t tell{{tf}}INF ‘(to) tell’ <br/>''s:ḏd(.t)'' → sḏd tell{{tf}}INF ‘(to) tell’
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| align="center" | {{Red|'''&lt;&nbsp;&gt;'''}} || leave brackets out; keep content || ''sn<.t>'' → sn{{TrSep}}t sister:F ‘sister’
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| align="center" | '''{&nbsp;}''' || leave brackets and content out || ''sn{.t}'' → sn brother(M)[SG] ‘brother’
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| align="center" | '''[&nbsp;]''' || leave brackets out; keep content or leave it out || ''[sn].t'' → sn{{TrSep}}t sister:F ‘sister’ <br/>''[sn].t'' → [___]t [___]:F ‘[destroyed]’
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| align="center" | '''&lceil;&nbsp;&rceil;''' || leave brackets out; keep content || ''&lceil;sn&rceil;.t'' → sn{{TrSep}}t sister:F ‘sister’
|}