has lexical form

• CURIE: gmeow:hasLexicalForm
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/hasLexicalForm
• Category: property
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/lexicon
• Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

The concrete form(s) of a lexical item. NON-FUNCTIONAL: a single item may have many forms (written, spoken, reconstructed, etc.), and competing form claims from different standpoints coexist (Principle 9).

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:LexicalItem -> gmeow:LexicalForm

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:hasLexicalForm from gmeow:LexicalItem to gmeow:LexicalForm when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Word Etymology

• Source: slices/extensions/lexicon/examples/word-etymology.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-lexicon-examples-word-etymology

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: a word, its forms, and its etymology . A gmeow:LexicalItem
# is a lexeme in a language; its written/spoken/signed surface strings are
# separate gmeow:LexicalForms (gmeow:hasLexicalForm), so the same lexeme can carry
# many forms across scripts and registers. A gmeow:EtymologicalDerivation reifies
# WHERE a word came from — source → target with a gmeow:derivationKind
# (inheritance / borrowing / calque / sound-change …) — so "English 'ontology'
# was BORROWED from Greek" is a first-class, typed claim, not a free-text note.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/lexicon/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

# --- The English lexeme and its written form.
ex:ontology a gmeow:LexicalItem ;
    gmeow:lexicalItemLanguage gmeow:langEnglish ;
    gmeow:hasLexicalForm      ex:ontologyForm .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:LexicalItem, gmeow:LexicalForm

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: ontolex

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to link a lexical item to its concrete surface forms — written, spoken, signed, reconstructed, and so on.

Avoid when

• Avoid forcing a single form (it is non-functional; many forms of one item coexist) and avoid stating it from the form's side, where gmeow:formOf is the natural inverse.

How to use

• Assert gmeow:hasLexicalForm from the item to each gmeow:LexicalForm; read gmeow:formOf as its inverse from the form back to the item.

Examples

• ex:wordWater gmeow:hasLexicalForm ex:waterWritten, ex:waterIpa.