Dictionary
Today is August 30, 2022. I'm embarking on a long project to reprint the full Tapissary dictionary. It may take over a year to complete the project as I have to transcribe and reprint all the characters, spoken words, and boustrophedon glyphs in one simple format. Until I have this completed, please visit the tab OLD DICTIONARY, where you will see the small online version. I plan to upload each page as I finish it. This may average one page per day, and there are over 350 pages in my original dictionary. So, little by little.
The column headed "Root" shows the glyph in its simplest form. In the columns "Arm" and "Pin", you will see that selected words have this special form which can be used when writing on alternate lines from right to left. Please see the BACKWARD SCRIPT tab for an explanation. The “Arm” is an extended version of the backward form, into which you can place vocabulary words above its long line. The “Pin” is a thin form of the word, which pins itself into a previous arm, or it can stand on its own.
Nouns, verbs, and adjectives are often interchangeable in Tapissary. Suffixes such as '-tion, -ly, etc., can be added to words but usually aren’t. This hadn’t always been the case. The expanded dictionary from 1999 did differentiate these parts of speech, so you will see the remnants of the older system where a separate symbol for ACTion, ACTivity, ACTive, and ACTivate, for example, have very different looking çelloglyphs though they share the same root. With the updated dictionary which I began in August 2022, I keep those older forms as a piece of its history.
