Plural that has two senses, one an adjective?

[B Kh]

So I have a word,  ගැටලු that is both a plural form of  ගැටලුව as well as an adjective.

I created the entry for the singular form ( ගැටලුව ), and then a second entry for  ගැටලු with two senses, one as a noun and one as an adjective.

However when I went back to  ගැටලුව and added  ගැටලු as a plural variant, the entry for  ගැටලු no longer shows the two senses in the dictionary:

I have done a refresh several times. You can see that the data is still there (Sense 2 is cut off the screen shot, but you can see it in the browser view to the left.

It shows the same in the dictionary view:

Am I doing something wrong? I like having the variant linkage. Is my only alternative to not link them? Or do I need to have two headwords for  ගැටලු, one of them as the plural linked and the other as an adjective?

Thanks!

[Beth-docs Bryson]

One thing about Variants is that typically they don't have a sense.  Normally a variant is something that has the same meaning as its main form, but just has a different shape (or differs only by some grammatical feature, such as "plural").

It is possible for a variant to have a sense, if you add it, so you could in fact have the same entry for both the plural form, and for the adjective.  However, I would be inclined to treat the plural as "just a variant" and have the adjective be a separate entry, with its own information.  Still, there are lots of options, and that is only one possible way.

Have you discovered the DLS Lexicography Course?

https://sites.google.com/sil.org/dls-course/register

There is a lot of really good information there, and the section that treats Variants is the first section in the Lex 201 course:

https://sites.google.com/sil.org/dls-lex201/#h.sbf5nhicr6ed

There are also some videos that discuss variants and how to configure them:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE0Ud4zAQz-3GzsnSEn8EuknN9mmj7Uye

-Beth

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[B Kh]

Thank you! That makes sense.

I'm currently on 101 C 8, so I guess I'm getting ahead of myself. It's a wonderful course. I just can't get through quick enough :-)

[Kevin Warfel]

No need to rush through it. Better to learn it well. I wish I'd had such a course available when I was learning to use FLEx.

Kevin 

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