Englishterm

Englishterm is a label used in linguistics and lexicography to denote an English surface form under study in a dataset or glossary. It functions as a neutral placeholder separate from its translation, part of speech, or sense annotations.

The term is not a standard linguistic category in itself; it is a practical convention that helps researchers distinguish the raw English form from its linguistic analysis. The name combines English with term and is sometimes written with a space or hyphen in early documents; many modern resources adopt the single-word form 'Englishterm' as a stable identifier.

Usage: In multilingual corpora and lexical databases, Englishterm entries are used to link an English word or phrase to metadata such as part of speech, sense, and examples, while keeping language-neutral labels for other fields (e.g., translations). It is often encountered in annotation schemas, glossaries, and software localization datasets.

Examples: An entry might list Englishterm: run, part of speech: verb, senses: to move swiftly on foot; to manage or operate. In bilingual datasets, the Englishterm is paired with equivalents in other languages and with usage notes.

See also: lemma, lexeme, gloss, translation, corpus annotation.