analysis The process of breaking up *words, *phrases, *clauses, *sentences, *constructions, etc. into their *constituent parts.
Used at the beginning of a footnote, especially if it is the only one on the page, and after a word, phrase, or sentence that this footnote relates to.
(by extension)Used at the beginning of a clarifyingstatement or disclaimer, especially if it is the only one on the page.
2022 August 5, “Monkeypox 2022 U.S. Map & Case Count”, in [United States] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention[1], archived from the original on 2022-08-05:
Total confirmed monkeypox/orthopoxvirus cases: 7,102 *One Florida case is listed here but included in the United Kingdom case counts because the individual was tested while in the UK.
(descriptive linguistics)Used before a term (such as a word, phrase, or sentence) to show that it is grammaticallyincorrect, or in some other way ill-formed.
English prepositions come before the associated noun: we say She lives in Rome, not *She lives Rome in.
Roots like **bep- were not allowed in Proto-Indo-European.
(historical linguistics)Used before or after a term to denote that it is only hypothesized and not actually attested.
His theory of the Proto-Slavic *kъniga being ultimately derived from Chinese, via the middle form *kūinig, reflecting ancient routes of cultural influx from the East, has not gained a firm ground in the Slavicist circles in the last century.
When used doubly before a term: that the term has been invented for the sake of argument and is not assumed to have been real.
If Hebrewתָּמָר (tāmār, “dates”) were cognate to Aramaicתְּמָרָא (təmārā, “dates”) instead of being borrowed from it, the Hebrew form would be שָׁמָר** (šāmār), for thus is the regular correspondence of the Proto-Semitic*ṯ present in its cognate Arabicثَمَر (ṯamar, “fruits”).
When used after a term: that the term is actually attested, but not in its citation form that is being mentioned.
PIE *ḱonk- yielded Vedic śaṅk-ate “worries, hesitates”, as well as pre-Germanic *kank-, whence also Gothic hāhan* “to hang”.
When used before a symbol representing a phoneme: that the phoneme is reconstructed on the basis of comparative method.
Proto-Germanic had three unvoiced fricatives: */f/, */þ/, and */h/.
When used before a symbol representing a sound value: that the sound value is hypothesized.
Proto-Germanic had three unvoiced fricatives, possibly representing *[ɸ], *[θ], and *[x].
