{
  "date": "2026-10-23",
  "summary": {
    "assessed": 17,
    "resolved": 10,
    "unresolved": 7
  },
  "scope": "Independent Maltese source checks for all 17 previously flagged definitions. Source errors are corrected explicitly while original glosses, parts of speech, sense IDs and audit history remain recorded. Absence of corroboration is not proof a word is wrong.",
  "baselineStats": {
    "headwords": 11104,
    "entries": 11703,
    "senses": 15698,
    "withSynonyms": 1559,
    "synonymLinks": 2099,
    "antonymLinks": 416,
    "wordForms": 74129,
    "formMappings": 83339,
    "editorialChanges": 17,
    "heldItems": 29,
    "idsSenses": 1218,
    "idsNewEntries": 416,
    "verifiedCases": 46,
    "restoredCases": 17
  },
  "baselineDefinitionMeta": {
    "date": "2026-10-22",
    "total": 15698,
    "existingEditorial": 13,
    "editorialAdaptations": 14892,
    "structuralAdaptations": 776,
    "machineTranslated": 0,
    "provider": "Google Translate",
    "policy": "Every remaining machine-labelled definition has an individual retain, correction or unresolved decision. Uncertain meanings are explicitly labelled with notes. This AI-assisted assessment is not independent lexicographer certification. English originals, source links and synonym relations are preserved.",
    "unresolved": 17
  },
  "decisions": [
    {
      "index": 111,
      "word": "bbordja",
      "decision": "hold",
      "reason": "Cutayar jattesta sensi oħra ta’ bbordja, iżda ma jiċċarax “to board out”. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella u f’riżorsi nawtiċi ma sabx spjegazzjoni indipendenti ta’ dan is-sens. Ir-ripetizzjoni tal-istess glossa fuq sit ieħor ma ssolvix l-ambigwità.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Joseph Cutayar, Dictionnaire maltais-français, nouvelle édition augmentée, L’Harmattan, 2007",
          "url": "https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9782296174252_A24211632/preview-9782296174252_A24211632.pdf",
          "location": "paġna 38 (PDF page 38; zero-based 37)",
          "supports": "Direct independent Maltese dictionary entry for bbordja; defines turning into wind, winding movement and leaning. Does not support boarding a vessel or boarding out with planks.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Francesco Vella: Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese (1843)",
          "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Saret tiftixa fit-test diġitalizzat. Nuqqas ta’ riżultat mhuwiex prova li kelma ma teżistix.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Anton F. Attard: Ix-xogħol fuq id-dgħajjes ta’ Għawdex (3), Il-Ħajja f’Għawdex (2012)",
          "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/131722/4/Attard%20AF_Ix-xoghol%20fuq%20id-dghajjes%20ta%20Ghawdex%20%283%29_Il-%C4%A6ajja%20f%27G%C4%A7awdex_941_Ottubru%202012.pdf#page=1",
          "location": "paġna stampata 30",
          "supports": "L-entrata jibbordja ġiet eżaminata viżwalment u tfisser li jmexxi dgħajsa tal-qlugħ f’korsa li mhix għad-dritt. Tikkonferma sens nawtiku, iżda ma tiċċarax il-glossa separata “to board out”.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Dizzjunarju Nazzjonali tal-Malti",
          "url": "https://dizzjunarju.mt/",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "It-tiftixa attwali ma tatx entrata għal din il-kelma; id-dizzjunarju għadu qed jikber. Dan mhuwiex prova li l-kelma hija żbaljata.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "searched": [],
      "researchFinding": "The existing English gloss board out remains unverified. Proposed replacement intentionally corrects the source against Cutayar, rather than claiming that board out itself has been disambiguated. The separate existing to sail sense should remain separate. If source-sense identity must be preserved strictly, retain hold instead.",
      "researchFollowUp": {
        "word": "bbordja",
        "originalEnglish": "to board out",
        "decision": "hold",
        "proposedMT": null,
        "reason": "New book searches did not establish this particular sense. Existing evidence for nautical sailing/turning senses does not resolve the separate English phrase board out. Verb.mt repeats the same short gloss without a cited independent entry and therefore cannot resolve its meaning.",
        "newAttempts": [
          {
            "url": "https://verb.mt/b2/bbordja",
            "result": "Exact lemma and same English gloss found, but no independent lexical explanation or source citation; not used as verification."
          }
        ],
        "exactSupportingEntry": null
      },
      "followUpDate": "2026-10-23",
      "researchThirdPass": {
        "word": "bbordja",
        "heldSense": "to board out",
        "decision": "hold original sense; independently verified replacement nautical sense available",
        "proposedMT": "Imexxi dgħajsa bil-qlugħ fuq korsa li tbiddel id-direzzjoni, flok jimxi dritt.",
        "proposedEnglish": "to steer a sailing boat on a course that is not straight",
        "evidence": [
          {
            "source": "Anton F. Attard, Ix-xogħol fuq id-dgħajjes ta' Għawdex (3), Il-Ħajja f'Għawdex, October 2012",
            "page": 30,
            "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/131722/4/Attard%20AF_Ix-xoghol%20fuq%20id-dghajjes%20ta%20Ghawdex%20%283%29_Il-%C4%A6ajja%20f%27G%C4%A7awdex_941_Ottubru%202012.pdf",
            "excerpt": "jibbordja, imexxi d-dgħajsa tal-qlugħ f'korsa li mhix għad-dritt.",
            "verification": "Visually verified original printed p.30, PDF page 1, outputs/research-seven-attard3-1.png; exact inflected lemma and definition, clear print.",
            "limit": "Does not establish that board out is an English equivalent. Supports correcting or consolidating the existing nautical sense, rather than inventing a boarding-up or accommodation sense."
          },
          {
            "source": "Kummenti kritiċi dwar id-Dizzjunarju Malti u Teżawru ta' Malti mħaddem ta' Mario Serracino Inglott (2021)",
            "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/133400/1/Kummenti_kriti%C4%8Bi_dwar_Iddizzjunarju_Malti_u_Te%C5%BCawru_ta_Malti_m%C4%A7addem_ta_Mario_Serracino_Inglott_2021.pdf",
            "page": 79,
            "finding": "Lists bbordja among retained headwords of the dictionary's fourth edition, but supplies no definition. Establishes independent lexicographic inclusion only."
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "index": 232,
      "word": "ċavu",
      "decision": "hold",
      "reason": "Ma nstabx sors Malti indipendenti li jiċċara jekk “locking mast” jirreferix għal arblu jew għal parti li żżommu f’postu. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella, inklużi varjanti ortografiċi storiċi, ma pprovdiex attestazzjoni ċara. Il-paġna rilevanti tad-dizzjunarju nawtiku ta’ Caruana ma kinitx aċċessibbli.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Il-glossa oriġinali ta’ Wiktionary; mhijiex konferma indipendenti",
          "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C4%8Bavu",
          "supports": "Sors tal-glossa li għadha teħtieġ kjarifika.",
          "independent": false
        },
        {
          "title": "Francesco Vella: Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese (1843)",
          "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Saret tiftixa fit-test diġitalizzat. Nuqqas ta’ riżultat mhuwiex prova li kelma ma teżistix.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Joseph Caruana: Dizzjunarju ta’ termini nawtiċi u tagħrif marittimu lokali",
          "url": "https://bdlbooks.com/product/dizzjunarju-ta-termini-nawtici/",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Paġna tal-pubblikatur biss; l-entrata ma ġietx eżaminata u dan mhuwiex sors ta’ konferma.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Dizzjunarju Nazzjonali tal-Malti",
          "url": "https://dizzjunarju.mt/",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "It-tiftixa attwali ma tatx entrata għal din il-kelma; id-dizzjunarju għadu qed jikber. Dan mhuwiex prova li l-kelma hija żbaljata.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "searched": [
        "Exact Unicode and ASCII form searches with mast, arblu, nautical and dictionary contexts",
        "Joseph Cutayar 2007 available preview A–D (no independently matching entry located)",
        "A. Cremona 1964 nautical paper and visually inspected appendix nomenclature pp195–197",
        "UM MLRS/Gabra old address redirects to UM homepage, so no lexeme result was available"
      ],
      "researchFinding": "Only Wiktionary/Kaikki-derived copies of the unclear English gloss located. Neither whether this is a whole mast nor a mast-locking component can be established. Do not invent an arblu li jsakkar definition.",
      "researchFollowUp": {
        "word": "ċavu",
        "originalEnglish": "locking mast",
        "decision": "hold",
        "proposedMT": null,
        "reason": "No new independent dictionary page establishes what locking mast denotes here. It could refer to a fitting rather than an entire mast; translating either interpretation would add unsupported precision.",
        "exactSupportingEntry": null,
        "attempts": "Exact modern spelling and cavu/ciavu/chiavu historical variants, maritime context and Vella OCR; no independent attestation obtained."
      },
      "followUpDate": "2026-10-23",
      "researchThirdPass": {
        "word": "ċavu",
        "heldSense": "locking mast",
        "decision": "hold",
        "proposedMT": null,
        "newAttempts": [
          "Searched exact accented lemma with arblu, albr-, baħar and maritime context; historical ciavu/cavu/chiavu with Malta/ship/mast. No independent exact definition found.",
          "New national dictionary public search returned no match."
        ],
        "limit": "Sicilian key-related etymology and generic English mast fittings cannot establish the Maltese sense; no unsupported fid or locking-component substitution proposed."
      }
    },
    {
      "index": 562,
      "decision": "resolved",
      "word": "dritt",
      "pos": "adj",
      "mt": "Li mhuwiex mgħawweġ jew milwi.",
      "reason": "Il-glossa ‘straight’ tirreferi għal aġġettiv, mhux għan-nom li jfisser jedd. Il-glossarju uffiċjali jagħti l-forom dritt, dritta u dritti f’dan is-sens.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Direttorat għat-Tagħlim u l-Assessjar / Aġenzija Nazzjonali tal-Litteriżmu: Glossarju Bilingwi ta’ Termini tal-Matematika (2022)",
          "url": "https://nla.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/A-Bilingual-Glossary-of-Mathematics-Terms-The-Early-and-Junior-Years.pdf#page=51",
          "location": "paġna stampata 49, PDF 51",
          "supports": "It-tabella straight tagħti dritta (f), dritt (m), dritti (pl) u tużahom għall-ġnub ta’ rettangolu."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "index": 1190,
      "word": "fergħen",
      "decision": "resolved",
      "mt": "Jidgħi jew jisħet.",
      "g": "to blaspheme, to swear, to curse",
      "reason": "Id-dizzjunarju ta’ Busuttil jattesta s-sens ta’ dagħa u saħta. Il-kelma “sweat” fil-glossa oriġinali hija żball; ma hemmx tifsira ta’ għaraq f’dan is-sens.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Diziunariu mill Malti għall Inglis",
          "url": "https://archive.org/details/DiziunariuMillMaltiGhallInglis/page/n63/mode/1up",
          "location": "paġna 59",
          "supports": "Dictionary entry visually verified in the independently published 1900 book, printed page59, scan63. Local image research-c-busuttil-63.jpg. OCR locally at research-c-busuttil.txt, lines8985–8986.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Kliem u Storja, f, FERGĦUN",
          "url": "https://kliemustorja.com/f/",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Related noun supports blasphemous conduct; the direct verb dictionary entry above is decisive.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "researchFinding": "No remaining semantic uncertainty about the held cursing sense."
    },
    {
      "index": 1262,
      "word": "ffalzja",
      "decision": "hold",
      "reason": "Ma nstabx kuntest Malti indipendenti li jidentifika l-isport jew l-azzjoni fil-glossa “to spin shot”. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella u għal użi sportivi ma tax evidenza diretta. Ir-repożitorju tal-API ta’ Ġabra ma fihx id-database lessikali; ma nkisbitx l-entrata. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’forom u kuntesti relatati lanqas ma pprovda attestazzjoni Maltija indipendenti li ssolvi s-sens.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Il-glossa oriġinali ta’ Wiktionary; mhijiex konferma indipendenti",
          "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ffalzja",
          "supports": "Sors tal-glossa li għadha teħtieġ kjarifika.",
          "independent": false
        },
        {
          "title": "Francesco Vella: Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese (1843)",
          "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Saret tiftixa fit-test diġitalizzat. Nuqqas ta’ riżultat mhuwiex prova li kelma ma teżistix.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "MLRS: repożitorju tal-API ta’ Ġabra",
          "url": "https://github.com/MLRS/gabra-api",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Ġiet eżaminata r-rotta għad-data; ma nkisbitx entrata li tikkonferma dan is-sens.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "searched": [
        "Exact word and inflected-form searches ffalzja, ffalzjat, tiffalzja, niffalzja",
        "Sport-context searches with ballun, biljard, futbol, tir and shot",
        "Search for independent Maltese dictionary attestations rather than Kaikki copies"
      ],
      "researchFinding": "No independent Maltese attestation establishing the referent of shot found. A billiards or ball-spin interpretation is plausible but unproven. The related falz/falsification word family does not establish this specialized sense.",
      "researchFollowUp": {
        "word": "ffalzja",
        "index": 1262,
        "sense": "en-ffalzja-mt-verb-zuV8vlE5",
        "decision": "hold",
        "proposedEnglish": null,
        "proposedMaltese": null,
        "confidence": "insufficient for independent restoration",
        "finding": "The sporting sense to spin shot still lacks independently accessible direct evidence. The derivative Wiktionary/Kaikki family cannot serve as independent corroboration. No replacement meaning inferred from falz or from Italian cognates.",
        "checks": [
          {
            "title": "Vella 1843 dictionary",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
            "localOCR": "outputs/research-eight-vella.txt",
            "result": "Fresh complete OCR searched for fals/falz, spin, effect and related strings. No ffalzja/falzja sporting definition located. OCR absence is not proof that the word is invalid."
          },
          {
            "title": "MLRS Ġabra API repository",
            "url": "https://github.com/MLRS/gabra-api",
            "localReadme": "outputs/research-eight-gabra-readme.txt",
            "result": "Repository contains API source, not the full lexicon database. README directs database downloads to the old MLRS gabra-api/download route, which currently redirects to the UM homepage. No exact independent entry was recovered."
          },
          {
            "title": "Exact-word and inflection searches",
            "queries": [
              "ffalzja",
              "falzja xutt",
              "falzjaha ballun",
              "falzjat ballun"
            ],
            "result": "No independently sourced Maltese sporting use recovered; results were derivative dictionary forms or irrelevant non-Maltese matches."
          },
          {
            "title": "Caruana 1903 and Aquilina accessibility",
            "result": "Public catalogues and Archive title/creator searches did not supply a readable Caruana1903 full text or an accessible Aquilina entry. These books were not claimed as consulted for the word."
          }
        ],
        "uncertainty": "A direct modern dictionary entry or genuine sports/billiards usage is still required. Do not publish a definition claiming that shot certainly means a ball rather than a projectile solely from the supplied English."
      },
      "followUpDate": "2026-10-23",
      "researchThirdPass": {
        "word": "ffalzja",
        "senseId": "en-ffalzja-mt-verb-zuV8vlE5",
        "sourceEnglish": "to spin shot",
        "decision": "hold",
        "proposedMaltese": null,
        "reason": "The sporting sense remains independently unverified. No replacement definition or claim that the lemma is invalid is justified.",
        "newChecks": [
          {
            "source": "Id-Dizzjunarju Malti",
            "url": "https://dizzjunarju.mt/entry/ffalzja.html",
            "result": "Direct HTTP request returned 404; no dictionary entry obtained.",
            "savedResponse": "outputs/research-seven-ffalzja-national.html",
            "limitation": "A missing URL is not evidence against the word or sense."
          },
          {
            "source": "University of Malta MLRS Minsel Etymological Dictionary repository",
            "url": "https://github.com/MLRS/minsel",
            "treeUrl": "https://api.github.com/repos/MLRS/minsel/git/trees/master?recursive=1",
            "result": "Inspected repository file inventory. Public lexical sample files are bard.json and bired.json; no full lexical dump or ffalzja entry was available in the repository tree.",
            "savedInventory": "outputs/research-seven-minsel-tree.json",
            "limitation": "Repository software and sample data cannot establish absence from the underlying dictionary."
          },
          {
            "source": "Targeted independent Maltese usage searches",
            "queries": [
              "\"jiffalzja\"",
              "\"falzjata\" ballun",
              "\"falzja\" billiards",
              "\"falzj\" site:netnews.com.mt",
              "\"falzj\" site:talk.mt",
              "\"falzja\" site:um.edu.mt/library/oar",
              "\"falz\" \"biljard\""
            ],
            "result": "No independently attributable sporting example was found. Results were derivative Wiktionary/Kaikki forms or unrelated texts; none was accepted as corroboration.",
            "limitation": "Search coverage and OCR are incomplete. This is a research failure, not a lexical disproof."
          }
        ],
        "editorialRecommendation": "Keep this exact sense withheld pending an accessible independent dictionary entry, book passage, or unambiguous Maltese sporting quotation. Do not infer a ball, billiards, football, or falsification definition from the English fragment alone.",
        "siteAssetsModified": false
      }
    },
    {
      "index": 1577,
      "word": "fwieħ",
      "decision": "resolved",
      "reason": "Vella jattesta direttament il-verb bil-forma storika Fuieħ u jiddefinixxih bħala li jsir ifuħ. Il-paġna skennjata ġiet eżaminata viżwalment. “Flagrant” fil-glossa oriġinali hija żball għal “fragrant”; mhuwiex każ ta’ konklużjoni meħuda biss min-nom fwieħa.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Dizionario maltese-italiano-inglese",
          "url": "https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ec4NAAAAQAAJ/page/n76/mode/1up",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "The fwieħa noun is glossed fragrance/perfume. The fieħ verb elsewhere is about emitting scent. These establish the family, not the exact held fwieħ verb.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Sors ikkonsultat",
          "url": "https://mlrs.research.um.edu.mt/resources/gabra-api/lexemes/search?s=fwie%C4%A7",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Attempted exact Ġabra API lookup; the live endpoint redirected to the UM homepage, so no lexeme evidence was obtainable.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Sors ikkonsultat",
          "url": "https://dizzjunarju.mt/entry/fwie%C4%A7.html",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Attempted direct national dictionary entry; unavailable. No inference from absence.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Francesco Vella: Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese (1843)",
          "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog/page/n39/mode/1up",
          "location": "paġna stampata 21, entrata Fuieħ, v. n.",
          "supports": "Il-verb jingħata bit-tifsira li jsir ifuħ. Il-forma storika u t-tifsira ġew ikkonfermati mill-paġna skennjata.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "researchFinding": "Do not restore a precise definition solely from the adjacent noun, morphology or the suspected English typo.",
      "mt": "Isir ifuħ jew jibda joħroġ riħa pjaċevoli.",
      "g": "to become fragrant",
      "researchFollowUp": {
        "word": "fwieħ",
        "index": 1577,
        "sense": "en-fwieħ-mt-verb-dE3HxXHf",
        "decision": "restore",
        "proposedEnglish": "to become fragrant",
        "proposedMaltese": "Isir ifuħ jew jibda joħroġ riħa pjaċevoli.",
        "confidence": "high",
        "finding": "Vella directly records the verb in historical spelling Fuieħ, not just the related noun fwieħa. It explicitly means becoming odoriferous. The existing English flagrant is erroneous.",
        "sources": [
          {
            "author": "Francesco Vella",
            "title": "Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese",
            "year": 1843,
            "printedPage": 21,
            "entry": "Fuieħ",
            "partOfSpeech": "v. n.",
            "excerpt": "Fuieħ, v. n. Diventar odoroso. To grow odoriferous.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog/page/n39/mode/1up",
            "imageUrl": "https://ia601504.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/4/items/dizionarioporta00vellgoog/dizionarioporta00vellgoog_tif.zip&file=dizionarioporta00vellgoog_tif/dizionarioporta00vellgoog_0039.tif&id=dizionarioporta00vellgoog&scale=2&rotate=0",
            "localImage": "outputs/research-eight-vella-39.jpg",
            "localOCR": "outputs/research-eight-vella.txt",
            "verification": "Visually checked the scanned printed p21. Exact headword Fuieħ followed by the intransitive verb label and both Italian and English definitions. OCR object38 corresponds to image file0039; the file0038 image is printed p20 and is not the decisive page. Modern w corresponds to the historical u in this spelling."
          }
        ],
        "uncertainty": "No remaining semantic ambiguity. Keep the original erroneous English gloss in provenance while correcting the active English equivalent."
      },
      "followUpDate": "2026-10-23"
    },
    {
      "index": 2926,
      "word": "ħallaq",
      "decision": "resolved",
      "mt": "Iqajjem l-aptit jew ix-xewqa li wieħed jiekol.",
      "g": "to stimulate or whet the appetite",
      "reason": "Falzon jattesta direttament il-verb fis-sens li jqajjem ix-xewqa li wieħed jiekol. Il-glossa oriġinali kellha “simulate” minflok “stimulate”.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Dizionario maltese-italiano-inglese",
          "url": "https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ec4NAAAAQAAJ/page/n95/mode/1up",
          "location": "paġna 73",
          "supports": "Exact headword and definition visually verified on the scanned printed page, local image research-c-falzon-95.jpg. The printed page is 73 (not OCR misread 75).",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "researchFinding": "The neighbouring desire-to-eat sense overlaps. This correction should not create a new synonym link merely because two senses overlap."
    },
    {
      "index": 3560,
      "decision": "resolved",
      "word": "imprezzabbli",
      "pos": "adj",
      "removeTags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "mt": "Ta’ valur kbir li ma jistax jitkejjel jew jingħatalu prezz.",
      "reason": "L-użu attestat huwa aġġettiv. It-tikketti ta’ nom femminili fis-sors ma jaqblux ma’ dan l-użu.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "ĠEMMA: Il-Ktieb iż-Żgħir l-Iswed dwar Scams u Frodi, it-tieni parti",
          "url": "https://gemma.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Scams-fraud-02-MT.pdf#page=6",
          "location": "paġna stampata 5, PDF 6",
          "supports": "L-aġġettiv jiddeskrivi d-dettalji personali flimkien ma’ privati."
        },
        {
          "title": "Qrati tal-Ġustizzja: sentenza, CaseJudgementId 19633",
          "url": "https://ecourts.gov.mt/onlineservices/Judgements/PrintPdf?CaseJudgementId=19633&JudgementId=0",
          "location": "paġna 12; test indiċjat, tniżżil dirett mhux disponibbli waqt il-kontroll",
          "supports": "Il-ħajja tal-bniedem hija msejħa imprezzabbli fil-kuntest li ma jistax sempliċement jitqiegħed valur ekonomiku fuqha."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "index": 4411,
      "word": "kontrapappafik",
      "decision": "resolved",
      "mt": "Qala’ kwadru li jintrama fuq il-pappafik, fil-parti għolja tal-arblu.",
      "g": "royal sail",
      "reason": "It-tabelli bilingwi ta’ Charles Briffa jiddistingwu l-kontrapappafik mill-pappafik. Il-glossa oriġinali “topgallant sail” kienet żbaljata; is-sens ikkonfermat huwa l-qala’ li jintrama fuqu.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Charles Briffa, White Dipping Sails",
          "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/28732/1/White%20dipping%20Sails%20Charles%20Briffa.pdf",
          "location": "paġna 64, table rows32–33; corroborating tables pp65 and68",
          "supports": "Explicit bilingual contrast establishes that kontrapappafik denotes royal, while pappafik denotes topgallant. Page64 rendered and visually inspected to verify table alignment.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "A. Cremona (1964), La marina Maltese dal medio evo all’Epoca moderna: storia e terminologia marittima, Journal of Maltese Studies 2, pp177–197",
          "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/21056",
          "location": "paġna 195, appendix rows32,33,37,38",
          "supports": "Original Maltese/Italian nomenclature pairs the corresponding sails with controvelaccio and velaccino, consistent with Briffa's explicit English royal/topgallant distinction. Scanned page visually inspected.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "searched": [],
      "researchFinding": "Resolved for the sail sense. The original topgallant gloss is a source error and must not remain as the active English definition/indexed gloss. Preserve it as source history. Briffa notes that mast/yard/sail names can overlap; this proposal defines the requested sail sense only."
    },
    {
      "index": 4413,
      "word": "kontrapirmiżżan",
      "decision": "hold",
      "reason": "Il-glossa tgħaqqad żewġ partijiet strutturali differenti tal-bastiment. Il-glossarju ta’ Charles Pulè jattesta kontraprim bħala “keelson, inner keel”, iżda ma jattestax kontrapirmiżżan bħala varjant tiegħu. Għalhekk din l-evidenza ma tiġġustifikax definizzjoni ġdida tal-kelma mmarkata.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "J. Richard Steffy, Illustrated Glossary of Ship and Boat Terms (academic-hosted maritime archaeology reference)",
          "url": "https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/maritimearchaeology11/files/17920584.pdf",
          "location": "paġna 271 false keel; 274 keelson",
          "supports": "The English terms identify different positions: false keel is external underneath the keel, while keelson is internal above floor timbers. Therefore the old English pair cannot safely be converted into one precise Maltese definition.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Charles Pulè: Maltese Traditional Boat — Dgħajsa Terms Translated from Maltese to English (2011)",
          "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/104573/1/Maltese%20traditional%20boat%20dghajsa%20terms%20translated%20from%20Maltese%20to%20English_Marsa%20Regatta_2011.pdf#page=2",
          "location": "paġna stampata 52",
          "supports": "It-tabella ġiet eżaminata viżwalment: kontraprim huwa “keelson, inner keel”. Din hija kelma relatata, mhux konferma tal-lemma kontrapirmiżżan.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Dizzjunarju Nazzjonali tal-Malti",
          "url": "https://dizzjunarju.mt/",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "It-tiftixa attwali ma tatx entrata għal din il-kelma; id-dizzjunarju għadu qed jikber. Dan mhuwiex prova li l-kelma hija żbaljata.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Stephanie Said: Documenting the last surviving traditional boats on the Maltese Islands",
          "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/50445/1/Documenting%20the%20last%20surviving%20traditional%20boats.pdf",
          "location": "paġna stampata 80",
          "supports": "Is-sors jagħti firjola u kurrigga għall-parti magħrufa bl-Ingliż bħala false keel. Ma jattestax kontrapirmiżżan.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "searched": [
        "Exact Maltese spelling and ASCII variants kontrapirmizzan, primizzan, pirmizzan",
        "A. Cremona 1964 nautical paper and visually inspected appendix pp195–197",
        "Independent Maltese boat glossary catalogue entry by Charles Pulè 2011",
        "Italian maritime references to paramezzale/controp aramezzale considered as possible etymological leads but not accepted as proof of Maltese meaning"
      ],
      "researchFinding": "No independent Maltese dictionary or primary technical text found establishing which structural member this Maltese spelling denotes. Etymology alone cannot decide between false keel, keelson or an additional keelson. Leave held pending a direct Maltese entry. Joseph Caruana's 2019 Dizzjunarju ta’ termini nawtiċi u tagħrif marittimu lokali (ISBN9789995799540,526pp) is a relevant identified print source, but its entry text was not accessible and is not treated as proof.",
      "researchFollowUp": {
        "word": "kontrapirmiżżan",
        "originalEnglish": "false keel, keelson",
        "decision": "hold",
        "proposedMT": null,
        "reason": "The original gloss joins structurally different components. A newly accessed primary glossary attests kontraprim, not this exact lemma; no source licenses treating them as variants.",
        "newEvidence": [
          {
            "source": "Charles Pulè, Maltese Traditional Boat: Dgħajsa Terms Translated from Maltese to English, Marsa Regatta (2011)",
            "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/104573/1/Maltese%20traditional%20boat%20dghajsa%20terms%20translated%20from%20Maltese%20to%20English_Marsa%20Regatta_2011.pdf",
            "page": 52,
            "excerpt": "Kontraprim — Keelson, inner keel",
            "visualVerification": "Rendered both PDF pages and inspected outputs/research-eight-maritime-pule-1.png and -2.png. Row alignment is unambiguous. The exact requested lemma does not appear in this two-page glossary."
          }
        ],
        "exactSupportingEntry": null
      },
      "followUpDate": "2026-10-23",
      "researchThirdPass": {
        "word": "kontrapirmiżżan",
        "heldSense": "false keel, keelson",
        "decision": "hold",
        "proposedMT": null,
        "newEvidence": [
          {
            "source": "Stephanie Said, Documenting the last surviving traditional boats on the Maltese Islands: a case study on the firilla, Malta Archaeological Review 11",
            "page": 80,
            "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/50445/1/Documenting%20the%20last%20surviving%20traditional%20boats.pdf",
            "finding": "Figure 1 identifies false-keel terms firjola/kurrigga, not the requested lemma. Searchable twelve-page report provides no exact kontrapirmiżżan attestation.",
            "limit": "Related component terminology does not license equating unknown lemmas."
          }
        ],
        "newAttempts": [
          "Searched kontraperm-, kontrapirm-, contrapermizzan, contrapirmizzan, contra pirmizzan and split forms in maritime contexts; no independent exact entry found.",
          "Read Attard's Gozo boat articles parts 1–3 (2012); no exact lemma.",
          "New national dictionary public search returned no match."
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "index": 5443,
      "word": "miegħed",
      "decision": "resolved",
      "mt": "Jitkellem b’mod mhux ċar jew itemtem kliemu.",
      "g": "to speak unintelligibly, to mumble one's words",
      "reason": "Falzon jagħti tifsira ta’ diskors li ma jinftiehemx. Fil-glossa oriġinali kienet nieqsa n-negazzjoni Ingliża, u għalhekk kienet tidher kontradizzjoni.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Dizionario maltese-italiano-inglese",
          "url": "https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ec4NAAAAQAAJ/page/n175/mode/1up",
          "location": "paġna 153",
          "supports": "Exact headword, imperfect and sense visually confirmed in left column of printed p153; local image research-c-falzon-175.jpg.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "researchFinding": "No remaining contradiction once the missing English negation is corrected."
    },
    {
      "index": 5988,
      "word": "nġab",
      "decision": "resolved",
      "mt": "Jaqbel u jmur tajjeb ma’ xi ħadd.",
      "g": "to get on with someone; to get along with someone; to be on good terms with someone",
      "reason": "Falzon jattesta l-forma storika inġieb u l-imperfett jinġieb fis-sens ta’ qbil; il-kuntest letterarju kkwotat minn Oliver Friggieri jikkonferma li wieħed imur tajjeb mal-oħrajn. L-evidenza tiċċara s-sens soċjali, mingħajr ma tippretendi deċiżjoni ortografika ġdida dwar il-lemma nġab.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Dizionario maltese-italiano-inglese",
          "url": "https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ec4NAAAAQAAJ/page/n121/mode/1up",
          "location": "paġna 99",
          "supports": "Historical related lemma/variant inġieb and imperfect jinġieb visually verified. It includes agreement in addition to being brought and being liked. Local image research-c-falzon-121.jpg.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "L-Għaqda tal-Kittieba tal-Malti ... qabel it-twaqqif",
          "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/61591/1/L-G%C4%A7aqda%20tal-Kittieba%20tal-Malti.pdf#page=3",
          "location": "paġna 88",
          "supports": "Independent scholarly literary history quotes Il Ħabib, 11 July 1912, issue22 p3. The collocation with everyone and no wish to quarrel clearly supplies the social get-along context.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "researchFinding": "Falzon spells the historical lemma inġieb, not nġab. The modern supplied lemma is retained; the independent evidence directly validates jinġieb and the intended sense, not a modern orthographic ruling on nġab."
    },
    {
      "index": 10026,
      "word": "vomitorju",
      "decision": "hold",
      "reason": "Il-glossa “vomitory” tista’ tirreferi għal passaġġ f’teatru jew għal sustanza li ġġiegħel lil wieħed jirremetti. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella ma pprovdiex l-entrata Maltija. Għal Caruana u Aquilina nkisbu rekords bibliografiċi, iżda mhux paġni tal-entrati li jiċċaraw dan in-nom. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’forom u kuntesti relatati lanqas ma pprovda attestazzjoni Maltija indipendenti li ssolvi s-sens.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "original lexical source, not independent",
          "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vomitorju",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Maltese headword and noun POS only; does not disambiguate the English gloss.",
          "independent": false
        },
        {
          "title": "English lexical ambiguity check, not Maltese attestation",
          "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vomitory",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "English noun also denotes a public-venue entrance, so blindly selecting one is unsafe.",
          "independent": false
        },
        {
          "title": "Francesco Vella: Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese (1843)",
          "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Saret tiftixa fit-test diġitalizzat. Nuqqas ta’ riżultat mhuwiex prova li kelma ma teżistix.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "searched": [
        "vomitorju",
        "vomitorji Malta",
        "vomitorju mediċina",
        "vomitorju Aquilina",
        "vomitorju dizzjunarju",
        "vomitorju site:um.edu.mt",
        "vomitorju site:books.google.com"
      ],
      "researchFinding": "No independent Maltese dictionary, official terminology or contextual attestation found that selects architectural entrance versus emetic substance. The original Wiktionary gloss remains ambiguous; related vomiting words and Italian etymology are not sufficient evidence.",
      "researchFollowUp": {
        "word": "vomitorju",
        "index": 10026,
        "decision": "hold",
        "text": null,
        "reason": "No new accessible Maltese source attests whether this noun means an architectural passage or an emetic substance. Etymology and English gloss cannot select one safely.",
        "newSourcesAttempted": [
          {
            "title": "Francesco Vella, Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese,1843",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
            "ocr": "outputs/research-eight-vella.txt",
            "outcome": "Full OCR searched for vomitor/vomit/emetico and surrounding Vsection. No target noun found; vomiting references concern other Maltese words. OCR non-match is not proof the modern word is invalid."
          },
          {
            "title": "A.E.Caruana, Vocabolario della lingua maltese,1903",
            "url": "https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Vocabolario_della_lingua_maltese_preceduto_da_un_c?hl=en_IN&id=4k3z8hcYv6IC",
            "outcome": "Bibliographic/free-ebook record located. IA title and creator searches found no accessible scan. Google within-volume API returned zero for vomitorju/vomitorio and also zero for control kelb; therefore no negative semantic inference is drawn and full dictionary is not claimed read."
          },
          {
            "title": "Joseph Aquilina, Concise Maltese English, English Maltese Dictionary,2006",
            "url": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Concise_Maltese_English_English_Maltese.html?id=VgzvAAAAMAAJ",
            "outcome": "Bibliographic record accessible, but Google within-volume API explicitly reports searchable:false for control and target searches. No entry text accessible; not treated as absence."
          }
        ]
      },
      "followUpDate": "2026-10-23",
      "researchThirdPass": {
        "word": "vomitorju",
        "index": 10026,
        "decision": "hold",
        "text": null,
        "reason": "No independent Maltese entry or usage found that chooses architectural passage versus emetic substance. Fresh spelling variants and contextual searches did not supply Maltese attestation.",
        "freshSearches": [
          "vomitorju excluding Wiktionary/Kaikki/site mirrors",
          "vomitoriu Maltese",
          "vomitorju Malta emetic"
        ],
        "rejectedAnalogicalEvidence": {
          "url": "https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Nuovo_vocabolario_siciliano-italiano/VO",
          "finding": "Traina's Sicilian dictionary has Vomitivu/Vomitoriu as an emetic adjective and noun. It is useful comparative evidence, but it does not attest the Maltese target word, so it cannot justify restoration."
        },
        "nextUsefulEvidence": "A photographed exact entry from Aquilina volume2 or Il-Miklem Malti, or a contextual Maltese quotation, could resolve this. Catalogue records and Italian/Sicilian cognates cannot."
      }
    },
    {
      "index": 10286,
      "decision": "resolved",
      "word": "xaba'",
      "pos": "noun",
      "mt": "Kotra kbira jew abbundanza ta’ xi ħaġa.",
      "reason": "Is-sens ta’ abbundanza huwa nominali u huwa attestat ukoll fil-frażi bix-xaba’. Il-verb xaba’ jibqa’ f’entrata separata.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Joseph Cutayar: Dizzjunarju Malti–Franċiż (2007), preview tal-pubblikatur",
          "url": "https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9782296174252_A24211632/preview-9782296174252_A24211632.pdf#page=13",
          "location": "paġna stampata 13, entrata abbundanza",
          "supports": "Il-frażi bix-xaba’ tidher fost l-espressjonijiet li jfissru abbundanza."
        },
        {
          "title": "In-Nadur fil-letteratura nazzjonali Maltija, Luminaria, Ġunju 2019; OAR Università ta’ Malta",
          "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/53137",
          "location": "paġna stampata 52",
          "supports": "L-analiżi tuża xaba’ bħala nom fil-kuntest tal-abbundanza tal-ambjent u tal-frott."
        },
        {
          "title": "G. B. Falzon: Dizionario maltese-italiano-inglese (1845)",
          "url": "https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ec4NAAAAQAAJ",
          "location": "entrata Xabai (nom maskil)",
          "supports": "L-entrata nominali tagħti direttament is-sensi ta’ abbundanza u kotra.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "relatedPosCorrections": [
        {
          "sense": "en-xaba'-mt-verb-IJwQcE5n",
          "pos": "noun",
          "reason": "L-entrata nnifisha hija deskritta bħala nom verbali; għandha tinżamm flimkien mas-sensi nominali, mhux mal-konjugazzjoni tal-verb."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "index": 10902,
      "word": "żinżel tal-baħar",
      "decision": "hold",
      "g": "Lioberus agglutinans, a species of mussel in the family Mytilidae",
      "reason": "Il-paġna skennjata ta’ Lanfranco issa ġiet eżaminata viżwalment. L-entrata 61 tagħti Żinżla tal-Baħar għal Modiolus barbatus, filwaqt li l-entrata 63 tagħti Żinżla, mingħajr tal-baħar, għall-ispeċi agglutinans. Dan joħloq kunflitt mal-identifikazzjoni oriġinali tal-kompost bħala Lioberus agglutinans. Il-forma kollettiva żinżel tal-baħar u l-identifikazzjoni tagħha jibqgħu jeħtieġu kjarifika; ma ntagħżlitx speċi awtomatikament.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "WoRMS/MolluscaBase expert taxonomy",
          "url": "https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?id=140434&p=taxdetails",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Amygdalum agglutinans is unaccepted and the accepted combination is Lioberus agglutinans. Search-indexed official result was readable; a later direct fetch returned403.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle specimen catalogue, primary",
          "url": "https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/im/item/2022-13269?listIndex=258",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Independent museum taxonomy clearly distinguishes genus and species.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Delongueville & Scaillet (2023), Novapex24(2):77–85",
          "url": "https://www.vliz.be/projects/scarmarbin/imis.php?module=ref&refid=391613",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Expert paper distinguishes L. agglutinans from L. ligneus and warns of Eastern Mediterranean misidentifications; does not attest the Maltese common name.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "mirror of original Wiktionary data, not independent",
          "url": "https://kaikki.org/dictionary/Maltese/pos-noun/%C5%BCift--%C5%BCirkonju.html",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Confirms the original name link but repeats the rank error, so must not be counted as new corroboration.",
          "independent": false
        },
        {
          "title": "Guido Lanfranco: Maltese names of local marine mollusca (1974)",
          "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/110691/3/23.11_Maltese_names_of_1974.pdf#page=8",
          "location": "paġna 8 tal-PDF, entrati 61 u 63",
          "supports": "Il-qari tal-ismijiet issa huwa kkonfermat viżwalment. Żinżla tal-Baħar hija marbuta ma’ Modiolus barbatus; Żinżla waħedha hija marbuta ma’ agglutinans. Il-limitazzjoni preċedenti tal-OCR ġiet solvuta, iżda l-identifikazzjonijiet tas-sorsi ma jaqblux.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "WoRMS / MolluscaBase: Modiolus barbatus",
          "url": "https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?id=140464&p=taxdetails",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Tikkonferma t-tassonomija ta’ Modiolus barbatus; ma tikkonfermax waħedha l-isem Malti.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "searched": [
        "żinżel tal-baħar",
        "zinzel tal-bahar",
        "żinżel Lioberus",
        "Lioberus agglutinans Maltese name"
      ],
      "researchFinding": "The scientific contradiction is resolved: Lioberus agglutinans is a species, not a genus. However, no independent Maltese attestation connecting this exact common name to the species was found. Under a strict independent-Maltese-source standard the lexical identity remains held; owner may distinguish this from the now-verified taxonomic correction.",
      "researchFollowUp": {
        "word": "żinżel tal-baħar",
        "index": 10902,
        "decision": "hold",
        "text": null,
        "reason": "New independent specialist evidence attests the related singular Żinżla for the same taxon, which supports the name family and the species association. It does not attest the exact compound żinżel tal-baħar. Under the requested exact-name standard the compound remains unresolved.",
        "positiveRelatedEvidence": {
          "author": "Guido Lanfranco",
          "title": "Maltese names of local marine mollusca",
          "year": 1974,
          "publication": "The Maltese Naturalist, summer1974, pp27–39; author-annotated offprint at University of Malta",
          "catalogueUrl": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/110691",
          "pdfUrl": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/110691/1/Maltese_Names_of_Local_Marine_Mollusca_1974.pdf#page=8",
          "pdfPage": 8,
          "entryNumber": 63,
          "attestedName": "Żinżla",
          "taxon": "Amygdalum(Modiola)agglutinans Cantr.",
          "support": "The entry associates Żinżla with Amygdalum/Modiola agglutinans and lists earlier scientific synonyms. Current WoRMS accepts Lioberus agglutinans for Amygdalum agglutinans. This supplies independent Maltese lexical-family evidence, not exact compound attestation.",
          "verificationLimit": "The official University of Malta PDF's indexed text was readable. Its OCR is poor and the name appears garbled in extraction, so the normalized transcription is provisional pending inspection of the scan image. Direct downloads returned Cloudflare HTML and web screenshots failed with cache-miss. Do not describe this as visually verified.",
          "referenceTrail": "Lanfranco's entry cites sources2,5,8,12,15,18 for this singular name. Source18 is Aquilina1969 Nomi maltesi di pesci,molluschi e crostacei del Mediterraneo; source12 is Giovanni Gulia1914; source5 is Giuseppe Mamo1867. His bibliography is on PDFpage13."
        },
        "newSourcesAttempted": [
          {
            "title": "Vella1843",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
            "outcome": "Zinzel and Zinzla entries identify jujube fruit/tree only; no marine compound. Full OCR lines28271–28280."
          },
          {
            "title": "Joseph Aquilina, Nomi maltesi di pesci,molluschi e crostacei del Mediterraneo,1969",
            "url": "https://mucem.org/notice/b/oai%3APMB%3A127075/",
            "outcome": "New specialist book identified through Lanfranco bibliography and museum catalogue, but only catalogue access obtained. No exact compound entry inspected."
          },
          {
            "title": "Aquilina1969 terminology bibliography",
            "url": "https://malti.mt/termini-kategoriji/bahar/page/3/",
            "outcome": "Confirms book structure: fauna pp61–103 and Maltese index pp158–173; useful next pages for a physical copy, no lexical conclusion."
          }
        ],
        "alreadyVerifiedTaxonomicCorrection": {
          "url": "https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?id=140434&p=taxdetails",
          "statement": "Lioberus agglutinans is an accepted species, not a genus. This corrects the scientific rank independently, but by itself cannot validate the exact Maltese compound."
        }
      },
      "followUpDate": "2026-10-23",
      "researchThirdPass": {
        "word": "żinżel tal-baħar",
        "index": 10902,
        "decision": "hold_original_identification",
        "text": null,
        "reason": "The scan now provides a corresponding singular compound, Żinżla tal-Baħar, but identifies it as Modiolus barbatus. It gives bare Żinżla to Amygdalium(Modiola)agglutinans, now Lioberus agglutinans. Therefore the original exact-compound-to-Lioberus association is contradicted by an independent specialist source. This is stronger than mere absence of evidence.",
        "candidateWithDocumentedSourceCorrection": "Mollusk bivalvi tal-ispeċi Modiolus barbatus, mill-familja Mytilidae; is-singulattiv tiegħu huwa “żinżla tal-baħar”.",
        "candidateEnglish": "bearded horse mussel(Modiolus barbatus)",
        "restorationLimit": "Only the singular compound is directly attested in Lanfranco. Applying the ordinary collective/singulative relationship to the existing collective headword is a grammatical inference and should be disclosed; do not call the exact collective spelling independently quoted. Alternatively retain the hold and show the documented disagreement.",
        "primarySource": {
          "author": "Guido Lanfranco",
          "year": 1974,
          "title": "Maltese names of local marine mollusca",
          "catalogueUrl": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/110691",
          "pdfUrl": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/110691/3/23.11_Maltese_names_of_1974.pdf#page=8",
          "pdfPage": 8,
          "entry61": {
            "scientificHeading": "Modiolus barbatus Lam.",
            "synonym": "Modiola barbata Lam.",
            "exactName": "Żinżla tal-Baħar",
            "citedReferences": [
              11,
              14
            ]
          },
          "entry63": {
            "scientificHeading": "Amygdalium(Modiola)agglutinans Cantr.",
            "exactName": "Żinżla",
            "citedReferences": [
              2,
              5,
              8,
              12,
              15,
              18
            ]
          },
          "bibliographyPage": 13,
          "referencesForCompound": [
            "11:Giovanni Gulia,1889–90,Prontuario di Storia Naturale,Malta",
            "14:Dizionario Enciclopedico,1927–33,p10941,reproducing source11"
          ],
          "visualVerification": "Downloaded actual current link from catalogue, rather than the stale sequence1 filename. Rendered and inspected page8 and bibliography page13. The compound has no handwritten doubt marker at entry61. Earlier OCR-only conclusions are superseded.",
          "localPdf": "outputs/research-seven-lanfranco.pdf",
          "localPageImage": "outputs/research-seven-lanfranco-p8.png",
          "localBibliographyImage": "outputs/research-seven-lanfranco-p13.png"
        },
        "taxonomicVerification": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?id=140464&p=taxdetails",
            "source": "WoRMS/MolluscaBase",
            "finding": "Modiolus barbatus(Linnaeus,1758) is accepted at species rank. Modiola barbata is its unaccepted synonym. Lanfranco's historical authorship attribution is not copied into the proposed definition."
          },
          {
            "url": "https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/name/Modiolus%2Bbarbatus",
            "source": "Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology specimen/taxonomic catalogue",
            "finding": "Bivalvia; family Mytilidae; genus Modiolus; species barbatus. Independent classification supports candidate wording."
          },
          {
            "url": "https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/2143/1768.pdf",
            "source": "Lok etal.2006,The Israeli Journal of Aquaculture58(1):55–61,primary research,IFREMER archive",
            "page": 55,
            "finding": "The title identifies the common English name bearded horse mussel with Modiolus barbatus."
          }
        ]
      },
      "removeSourceUrls": [
        "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/110691/1/Maltese_Names_of_Local_Marine_Mollusca_1974.pdf#page=8"
      ]
    },
    {
      "index": 10928,
      "word": "żnatura",
      "decision": "resolved",
      "mt": "Ibiddel jew jgħawweġ in-natura, il-karattru jew it-tifsira oriġinali ta’ xi ħaġa.",
      "g": "to denaturalize; to alter or distort the original nature, character or meaning of something",
      "reason": "L-użu f’sentenza tal-Qorti tal-Appell jattesta t-tgħawwiġ tan-ness kuntrattwali. Dan jikkonferma l-bidla jew it-tgħawwiġ tan-natura u tat-tifsira, mingħajr ma jiżdied sens mhux attestat dwar iċ-ċittadinanza.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Appell Inferjuri34/2022LM, Kunsill Lokali tal-Gżira vs L-Awtorità tal-Artijiet,26April2023",
          "url": "https://ecourts.gov.mt/onlineservices/Judgements/PrintPdf?CaseJudgementId=138517&JudgementId=0",
          "location": "paġna 36",
          "supports": "The paragraph then describes an allegation that contractual conditions were varied and modified. Lexical attestation only: the Court rejects the substantive allegation on the following page.",
          "independent": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Commission Regulation(EEC)2351/72, Maltese Special Edition03/Vol.1",
          "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/MT/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX%3A31972R2351",
          "location": "paġna 347",
          "supports": "Technical change of sugar to make it suitable only for intended animal-feed use; does not support loss of citizenship.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "searched": [],
      "researchFinding": "Independent Maltese court usage directly attests distortion of contractual meaning and relationships. Official EU Maltese terminology independently uses the same lexical family for altering sugar and other substances. These support a nature/character-changing sense; no citizenship sense should be added."
    },
    {
      "index": 10929,
      "word": "żnazzjonalizza",
      "decision": "hold",
      "reason": "Għadha ma nkisbitx entrata Maltija indipendenti li tiddistingwi bejn it-tneħħija taċ-ċittadinanza, il-bidla tal-karattru nazzjonali u t-tneħħija tas-sjieda mill-istat. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella ma ċċarax il-verb; l-entrati rilevanti ta’ Caruana u Aquilina ma kinux aċċessibbli. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’forom u kuntesti relatati lanqas ma pprovda attestazzjoni Maltija indipendenti li ssolvi s-sens.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "original lexical source, not independent",
          "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C5%BCnazzjonalizza",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Only the original ambiguous English gloss.",
          "independent": false
        },
        {
          "title": "Chinese Wiktionary derivative; not independent Maltese evidence",
          "url": "https://kaikki.org/zhwiktionary/All%20languages%20combined/words/%C5%BCejt--%C5%BCnazzjonalizzazzjonijiet.html",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "A derivative interprets this as removing state ownership; this cannot substitute for Maltese attestation.",
          "independent": false
        },
        {
          "title": "Francesco Vella: Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese (1843)",
          "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
          "location": "",
          "supports": "Saret tiftixa fit-test diġitalizzat. Nuqqas ta’ riżultat mhuwiex prova li kelma ma teżistix.",
          "independent": true
        }
      ],
      "searched": [
        "żnazzjonalizza",
        "znazzjonalizza",
        "jiżnazzjonalizza",
        "żnazzjonalizzat",
        "żnazzjonalizzazzjoni",
        "znazzjonalizzazzjoni",
        "żnazzjonalizzazzjoni site:um.edu.mt",
        "żnazzjonalizza privat",
        "żnazzjonalizza Aquilina"
      ],
      "researchFinding": "No independent Maltese contextual or terminological source found that disambiguates loss of citizenship, national character, or transfer out of state ownership. A Chinese Wiktionary derivative chooses non-state ownership, but is not an independent Maltese attestation and cannot resolve the hold.",
      "researchFollowUp": {
        "word": "żnazzjonalizza",
        "index": 10929,
        "decision": "hold",
        "text": null,
        "reason": "No newly accessible Maltese dictionary entry or contextual evidence establishes which denationalization sense is intended. Nationality loss and removal of state ownership remain distinct possibilities; no inferred translation published.",
        "newSourcesAttempted": [
          {
            "title": "Vella1843",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
            "ocr": "outputs/research-eight-vella.txt",
            "outcome": "Full OCR searched for n anz/nazz/nazion/denation and relevant surrounding alphabetic sections. Only nation and unrelated lexical material found; no target verb or semantic evidence."
          },
          {
            "title": "Caruana1903",
            "url": "https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Vocabolario_della_lingua_maltese_preceduto_da_un_c?hl=en_IN&id=4k3z8hcYv6IC",
            "outcome": "Google within-volume queries znazzjonalizza/denazionalizzare returned zero alongside zero-result control. Scan unavailable through examined IA records. Not claimed an exhaustive check of the book."
          },
          {
            "title": "Aquilina2006 Concise",
            "url": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Concise_Maltese_English_English_Maltese.html?id=VgzvAAAAMAAJ",
            "outcome": "Target and control not searchable; exact entry not accessible."
          },
          {
            "title": "Aquilina Maltese-English Dictionary Volume2",
            "url": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Maltese_English_Dictionary.html?id=kCoczQEACAAJ",
            "outcome": "Catalogue-only record found, no entry preview. Existence of a dictionary is not entry verification."
          }
        ]
      },
      "followUpDate": "2026-10-23",
      "researchThirdPass": {
        "word": "żnazzjonalizza",
        "index": 10929,
        "decision": "hold",
        "text": null,
        "reason": "Fresh target/stem/variant searches supplied only original-derived forms and generic machine translation pages. No independent Maltese contextual evidence selects nationality removal versus removal of state ownership.",
        "freshSearches": [
          "żnazzjonalizz excluding Wiktionary and Kaikki",
          "znazzjonalizza",
          "denazzjonalizza Malta"
        ],
        "rejectedEvidence": {
          "url": "https://www.fraser.nu/fras/Denationalisera",
          "finding": "The multilingual translation list includes Denazzjonalizza, but is not reliable independent Maltese lexical evidence and uses a different spelling. Not used to restore."
        },
        "nextUsefulEvidence": "An exact authoritative Maltese dictionary entry or parliamentary/legal/contextual quotation containing the target verb or its ordinary inflected forms."
      }
    }
  ],
  "changes": [
    {
      "word": "bbordja",
      "sense": "en-bbordja-mt-verb-7odNfzL~",
      "fromPos": "verb",
      "toPos": "verb",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-bbordja-mt-verb-7odNfzL~",
        "g": "to board out",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 111
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Il-glossa ‘to board out’ ma tagħtix biżżejjed kuntest biex tintgħażel it-tifsira eżatta."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-bbordja-mt-verb-7odNfzL~",
        "g": "to board out",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 111
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Cutayar jattesta sensi oħra ta’ bbordja, iżda ma jiċċarax “to board out”. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella u f’riżorsi nawtiċi ma sabx spjegazzjoni indipendenti ta’ dan is-sens. Ir-ripetizzjoni tal-istess glossa fuq sit ieħor ma ssolvix l-ambigwità.",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 111,
          "status": "unresolved",
          "reason": "Cutayar jattesta sensi oħra ta’ bbordja, iżda ma jiċċarax “to board out”. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella u f’riżorsi nawtiċi ma sabx spjegazzjoni indipendenti ta’ dan is-sens. Ir-ripetizzjoni tal-istess glossa fuq sit ieħor ma ssolvix l-ambigwità.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "Joseph Cutayar, Dictionnaire maltais-français, nouvelle édition augmentée, L’Harmattan, 2007",
              "url": "https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9782296174252_A24211632/preview-9782296174252_A24211632.pdf",
              "location": "paġna 38 (PDF page 38; zero-based 37)",
              "supports": "Direct independent Maltese dictionary entry for bbordja; defines turning into wind, winding movement and leaning. Does not support boarding a vessel or boarding out with planks.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Francesco Vella: Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese (1843)",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Saret tiftixa fit-test diġitalizzat. Nuqqas ta’ riżultat mhuwiex prova li kelma ma teżistix.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Anton F. Attard: Ix-xogħol fuq id-dgħajjes ta’ Għawdex (3), Il-Ħajja f’Għawdex (2012)",
              "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/131722/4/Attard%20AF_Ix-xoghol%20fuq%20id-dghajjes%20ta%20Ghawdex%20%283%29_Il-%C4%A6ajja%20f%27G%C4%A7awdex_941_Ottubru%202012.pdf#page=1",
              "location": "paġna stampata 30",
              "supports": "L-entrata jibbordja ġiet eżaminata viżwalment u tfisser li jmexxi dgħajsa tal-qlugħ f’korsa li mhix għad-dritt. Tikkonferma sens nawtiku, iżda ma tiċċarax il-glossa separata “to board out”.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Dizzjunarju Nazzjonali tal-Malti",
              "url": "https://dizzjunarju.mt/",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "It-tiftixa attwali ma tatx entrata għal din il-kelma; id-dizzjunarju għadu qed jikber. Dan mhuwiex prova li l-kelma hija żbaljata.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "ċavu",
      "sense": "en-ċavu-mt-noun-5JcBPKxk",
      "fromPos": "noun",
      "toPos": "noun",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-ċavu-mt-noun-5JcBPKxk",
        "g": "locking mast",
        "t": [
          "masculine"
        ],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 232
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Il-glossa ‘locking mast’ mhijiex ċara biżżejjed biex tinkiteb tifsira preċiża."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-ċavu-mt-noun-5JcBPKxk",
        "g": "locking mast",
        "t": [
          "masculine"
        ],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 232
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Ma nstabx sors Malti indipendenti li jiċċara jekk “locking mast” jirreferix għal arblu jew għal parti li żżommu f’postu. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella, inklużi varjanti ortografiċi storiċi, ma pprovdiex attestazzjoni ċara. Il-paġna rilevanti tad-dizzjunarju nawtiku ta’ Caruana ma kinitx aċċessibbli.",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 232,
          "status": "unresolved",
          "reason": "Ma nstabx sors Malti indipendenti li jiċċara jekk “locking mast” jirreferix għal arblu jew għal parti li żżommu f’postu. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella, inklużi varjanti ortografiċi storiċi, ma pprovdiex attestazzjoni ċara. Il-paġna rilevanti tad-dizzjunarju nawtiku ta’ Caruana ma kinitx aċċessibbli.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "Il-glossa oriġinali ta’ Wiktionary; mhijiex konferma indipendenti",
              "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C4%8Bavu",
              "supports": "Sors tal-glossa li għadha teħtieġ kjarifika.",
              "independent": false
            },
            {
              "title": "Francesco Vella: Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese (1843)",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Saret tiftixa fit-test diġitalizzat. Nuqqas ta’ riżultat mhuwiex prova li kelma ma teżistix.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Joseph Caruana: Dizzjunarju ta’ termini nawtiċi u tagħrif marittimu lokali",
              "url": "https://bdlbooks.com/product/dizzjunarju-ta-termini-nawtici/",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Paġna tal-pubblikatur biss; l-entrata ma ġietx eżaminata u dan mhuwiex sors ta’ konferma.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Dizzjunarju Nazzjonali tal-Malti",
              "url": "https://dizzjunarju.mt/",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "It-tiftixa attwali ma tatx entrata għal din il-kelma; id-dizzjunarju għadu qed jikber. Dan mhuwiex prova li l-kelma hija żbaljata.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "dritt",
      "sense": "ids-malt1254-12-730-1",
      "fromPos": "noun",
      "toPos": "adj",
      "beforePosition": 2,
      "before": {
        "id": "ids-malt1254-12-730-1",
        "g": "straight",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "src": "ids",
        "row": "malt1254-12-730-1",
        "parameter": "12-730",
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 562
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Il-glossa ‘straight’ mhijiex speċifikata biżżejjed għal din l-entrata kklassifikata bħala nom."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "ids-malt1254-12-730-1",
        "g": "straight",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "src": "ids",
        "row": "malt1254-12-730-1",
        "parameter": "12-730",
        "mt": "Li mhuwiex mgħawweġ jew milwi.",
        "mtKind": "editorial",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 562
        },
        "originalPos": "noun",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 562,
          "status": "source-supported",
          "reason": "Il-glossa ‘straight’ tirreferi għal aġġettiv, mhux għan-nom li jfisser jedd. Il-glossarju uffiċjali jagħti l-forom dritt, dritta u dritti f’dan is-sens.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "Direttorat għat-Tagħlim u l-Assessjar / Aġenzija Nazzjonali tal-Litteriżmu: Glossarju Bilingwi ta’ Termini tal-Matematika (2022)",
              "url": "https://nla.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/A-Bilingual-Glossary-of-Mathematics-Terms-The-Early-and-Junior-Years.pdf#page=51",
              "location": "paġna stampata 49, PDF 51",
              "supports": "It-tabella straight tagħti dritta (f), dritt (m), dritti (pl) u tużahom għall-ġnub ta’ rettangolu."
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "fergħen",
      "sense": "en-fergħen-mt-verb-CpBCCouR",
      "fromPos": "verb",
      "toPos": "verb",
      "beforePosition": 1,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-fergħen-mt-verb-CpBCCouR",
        "g": "to sweat, curse",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 1190
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Il-glossa tgħaqqad l-għaraq mas-saħta; jista’ jkun hemm konfużjoni bejn “sweat” u “swear” fis-sors."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-fergħen-mt-verb-CpBCCouR",
        "g": "to blaspheme, to swear, to curse",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "Jidgħi jew jisħet.",
        "mtKind": "editorial",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 1190
        },
        "originalGloss": "to sweat, curse",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 1190,
          "status": "source-supported",
          "reason": "Id-dizzjunarju ta’ Busuttil jattesta s-sens ta’ dagħa u saħta. Il-kelma “sweat” fil-glossa oriġinali hija żball; ma hemmx tifsira ta’ għaraq f’dan is-sens.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "Diziunariu mill Malti għall Inglis",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/DiziunariuMillMaltiGhallInglis/page/n63/mode/1up",
              "location": "paġna 59",
              "supports": "Dictionary entry visually verified in the independently published 1900 book, printed page59, scan63. Local image research-c-busuttil-63.jpg. OCR locally at research-c-busuttil.txt, lines8985–8986.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Kliem u Storja, f, FERGĦUN",
              "url": "https://kliemustorja.com/f/",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Related noun supports blasphemous conduct; the direct verb dictionary entry above is decisive.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "ffalzja",
      "sense": "en-ffalzja-mt-verb-zuV8vlE5",
      "fromPos": "verb",
      "toPos": "verb",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-ffalzja-mt-verb-zuV8vlE5",
        "g": "to spin shot",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 1262
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Il-glossa ‘to spin shot’ ma tagħtix biżżejjed kuntest biex tinkiteb tifsira żgura."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-ffalzja-mt-verb-zuV8vlE5",
        "g": "to spin shot",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 1262
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Ma nstabx kuntest Malti indipendenti li jidentifika l-isport jew l-azzjoni fil-glossa “to spin shot”. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella u għal użi sportivi ma tax evidenza diretta. Ir-repożitorju tal-API ta’ Ġabra ma fihx id-database lessikali; ma nkisbitx l-entrata. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’forom u kuntesti relatati lanqas ma pprovda attestazzjoni Maltija indipendenti li ssolvi s-sens.",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 1262,
          "status": "unresolved",
          "reason": "Ma nstabx kuntest Malti indipendenti li jidentifika l-isport jew l-azzjoni fil-glossa “to spin shot”. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella u għal użi sportivi ma tax evidenza diretta. Ir-repożitorju tal-API ta’ Ġabra ma fihx id-database lessikali; ma nkisbitx l-entrata. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’forom u kuntesti relatati lanqas ma pprovda attestazzjoni Maltija indipendenti li ssolvi s-sens.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "Il-glossa oriġinali ta’ Wiktionary; mhijiex konferma indipendenti",
              "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ffalzja",
              "supports": "Sors tal-glossa li għadha teħtieġ kjarifika.",
              "independent": false
            },
            {
              "title": "Francesco Vella: Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese (1843)",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Saret tiftixa fit-test diġitalizzat. Nuqqas ta’ riżultat mhuwiex prova li kelma ma teżistix.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "MLRS: repożitorju tal-API ta’ Ġabra",
              "url": "https://github.com/MLRS/gabra-api",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Ġiet eżaminata r-rotta għad-data; ma nkisbitx entrata li tikkonferma dan is-sens.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "fwieħ",
      "sense": "en-fwieħ-mt-verb-dE3HxXHf",
      "fromPos": "verb",
      "toPos": "verb",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-fwieħ-mt-verb-dE3HxXHf",
        "g": "to become flagrant",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 1577
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Il-glossa Ingliża ‘flagrant’ tista’ tkun żball għal ‘fragrant’; jeħtieġ sors li jiċċara t-tifsira."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-fwieħ-mt-verb-dE3HxXHf",
        "g": "to become fragrant",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "Isir ifuħ jew jibda joħroġ riħa pjaċevoli.",
        "mtKind": "editorial",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 1577
        },
        "originalGloss": "to become flagrant",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 1577,
          "status": "source-supported",
          "reason": "Vella jattesta direttament il-verb bil-forma storika Fuieħ u jiddefinixxih bħala li jsir ifuħ. Il-paġna skennjata ġiet eżaminata viżwalment. “Flagrant” fil-glossa oriġinali hija żball għal “fragrant”; mhuwiex każ ta’ konklużjoni meħuda biss min-nom fwieħa.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "Dizionario maltese-italiano-inglese",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ec4NAAAAQAAJ/page/n76/mode/1up",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "The fwieħa noun is glossed fragrance/perfume. The fieħ verb elsewhere is about emitting scent. These establish the family, not the exact held fwieħ verb.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Sors ikkonsultat",
              "url": "https://mlrs.research.um.edu.mt/resources/gabra-api/lexemes/search?s=fwie%C4%A7",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Attempted exact Ġabra API lookup; the live endpoint redirected to the UM homepage, so no lexeme evidence was obtainable.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Sors ikkonsultat",
              "url": "https://dizzjunarju.mt/entry/fwie%C4%A7.html",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Attempted direct national dictionary entry; unavailable. No inference from absence.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Francesco Vella: Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese (1843)",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog/page/n39/mode/1up",
              "location": "paġna stampata 21, entrata Fuieħ, v. n.",
              "supports": "Il-verb jingħata bit-tifsira li jsir ifuħ. Il-forma storika u t-tifsira ġew ikkonfermati mill-paġna skennjata.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "ħallaq",
      "sense": "en-ħallaq-mt-verb-BeFej-QP",
      "fromPos": "verb",
      "toPos": "verb",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-ħallaq-mt-verb-BeFej-QP",
        "g": "to simulate the appetite",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 2926
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Source says simulate appetite but adjacent sense suggests stimulate; source typo needs verification."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-ħallaq-mt-verb-BeFej-QP",
        "g": "to stimulate or whet the appetite",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "Iqajjem l-aptit jew ix-xewqa li wieħed jiekol.",
        "mtKind": "editorial",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 2926
        },
        "originalGloss": "to simulate the appetite",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 2926,
          "status": "source-supported",
          "reason": "Falzon jattesta direttament il-verb fis-sens li jqajjem ix-xewqa li wieħed jiekol. Il-glossa oriġinali kellha “simulate” minflok “stimulate”.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "Dizionario maltese-italiano-inglese",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ec4NAAAAQAAJ/page/n95/mode/1up",
              "location": "paġna 73",
              "supports": "Exact headword and definition visually verified on the scanned printed page, local image research-c-falzon-95.jpg. The printed page is 73 (not OCR misread 75).",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "imprezzabbli",
      "sense": "en-imprezzabbli-mt-noun-Vb9vhKaW",
      "fromPos": "noun",
      "toPos": "adj",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-imprezzabbli-mt-noun-Vb9vhKaW",
        "g": "inestimable",
        "t": [
          "feminine"
        ],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 3560
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Source adjective inestimable conflicts with noun POS."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-imprezzabbli-mt-noun-Vb9vhKaW",
        "g": "inestimable",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "Ta’ valur kbir li ma jistax jitkejjel jew jingħatalu prezz.",
        "mtKind": "editorial",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 3560
        },
        "originalPos": "noun",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 3560,
          "status": "source-supported",
          "reason": "L-użu attestat huwa aġġettiv. It-tikketti ta’ nom femminili fis-sors ma jaqblux ma’ dan l-użu.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "ĠEMMA: Il-Ktieb iż-Żgħir l-Iswed dwar Scams u Frodi, it-tieni parti",
              "url": "https://gemma.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Scams-fraud-02-MT.pdf#page=6",
              "location": "paġna stampata 5, PDF 6",
              "supports": "L-aġġettiv jiddeskrivi d-dettalji personali flimkien ma’ privati."
            },
            {
              "title": "Qrati tal-Ġustizzja: sentenza, CaseJudgementId 19633",
              "url": "https://ecourts.gov.mt/onlineservices/Judgements/PrintPdf?CaseJudgementId=19633&JudgementId=0",
              "location": "paġna 12; test indiċjat, tniżżil dirett mhux disponibbli waqt il-kontroll",
              "supports": "Il-ħajja tal-bniedem hija msejħa imprezzabbli fil-kuntest li ma jistax sempliċement jitqiegħed valur ekonomiku fuqha."
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "kontrapappafik",
      "sense": "en-kontrapappafik-mt-noun-PsEJrTdX",
      "fromPos": "noun",
      "toPos": "noun",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-kontrapappafik-mt-noun-PsEJrTdX",
        "g": "topgallant sail",
        "t": [
          "feminine"
        ],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 4411
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Specialist nautical sail term needs verification."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-kontrapappafik-mt-noun-PsEJrTdX",
        "g": "royal sail",
        "t": [
          "feminine"
        ],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "Qala’ kwadru li jintrama fuq il-pappafik, fil-parti għolja tal-arblu.",
        "mtKind": "editorial",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 4411
        },
        "originalGloss": "topgallant sail",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 4411,
          "status": "source-supported",
          "reason": "It-tabelli bilingwi ta’ Charles Briffa jiddistingwu l-kontrapappafik mill-pappafik. Il-glossa oriġinali “topgallant sail” kienet żbaljata; is-sens ikkonfermat huwa l-qala’ li jintrama fuqu.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "Charles Briffa, White Dipping Sails",
              "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/28732/1/White%20dipping%20Sails%20Charles%20Briffa.pdf",
              "location": "paġna 64, table rows32–33; corroborating tables pp65 and68",
              "supports": "Explicit bilingual contrast establishes that kontrapappafik denotes royal, while pappafik denotes topgallant. Page64 rendered and visually inspected to verify table alignment.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "A. Cremona (1964), La marina Maltese dal medio evo all’Epoca moderna: storia e terminologia marittima, Journal of Maltese Studies 2, pp177–197",
              "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/21056",
              "location": "paġna 195, appendix rows32,33,37,38",
              "supports": "Original Maltese/Italian nomenclature pairs the corresponding sails with controvelaccio and velaccino, consistent with Briffa's explicit English royal/topgallant distinction. Scanned page visually inspected.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "kontrapirmiżżan",
      "sense": "en-kontrapirmiżżan-mt-noun-Vhx5bI11",
      "fromPos": "noun",
      "toPos": "noun",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-kontrapirmiżżan-mt-noun-Vhx5bI11",
        "g": "false keel, keelson",
        "t": [
          "feminine"
        ],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 4413
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Source gives false keel and keelson as equivalents; these may be distinct structures."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-kontrapirmiżżan-mt-noun-Vhx5bI11",
        "g": "false keel, keelson",
        "t": [
          "feminine"
        ],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 4413
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Il-glossa tgħaqqad żewġ partijiet strutturali differenti tal-bastiment. Il-glossarju ta’ Charles Pulè jattesta kontraprim bħala “keelson, inner keel”, iżda ma jattestax kontrapirmiżżan bħala varjant tiegħu. Għalhekk din l-evidenza ma tiġġustifikax definizzjoni ġdida tal-kelma mmarkata.",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 4413,
          "status": "unresolved",
          "reason": "Il-glossa tgħaqqad żewġ partijiet strutturali differenti tal-bastiment. Il-glossarju ta’ Charles Pulè jattesta kontraprim bħala “keelson, inner keel”, iżda ma jattestax kontrapirmiżżan bħala varjant tiegħu. Għalhekk din l-evidenza ma tiġġustifikax definizzjoni ġdida tal-kelma mmarkata.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "J. Richard Steffy, Illustrated Glossary of Ship and Boat Terms (academic-hosted maritime archaeology reference)",
              "url": "https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/maritimearchaeology11/files/17920584.pdf",
              "location": "paġna 271 false keel; 274 keelson",
              "supports": "The English terms identify different positions: false keel is external underneath the keel, while keelson is internal above floor timbers. Therefore the old English pair cannot safely be converted into one precise Maltese definition.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Charles Pulè: Maltese Traditional Boat — Dgħajsa Terms Translated from Maltese to English (2011)",
              "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/104573/1/Maltese%20traditional%20boat%20dghajsa%20terms%20translated%20from%20Maltese%20to%20English_Marsa%20Regatta_2011.pdf#page=2",
              "location": "paġna stampata 52",
              "supports": "It-tabella ġiet eżaminata viżwalment: kontraprim huwa “keelson, inner keel”. Din hija kelma relatata, mhux konferma tal-lemma kontrapirmiżżan.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Dizzjunarju Nazzjonali tal-Malti",
              "url": "https://dizzjunarju.mt/",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "It-tiftixa attwali ma tatx entrata għal din il-kelma; id-dizzjunarju għadu qed jikber. Dan mhuwiex prova li l-kelma hija żbaljata.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Stephanie Said: Documenting the last surviving traditional boats on the Maltese Islands",
              "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/50445/1/Documenting%20the%20last%20surviving%20traditional%20boats.pdf",
              "location": "paġna stampata 80",
              "supports": "Is-sors jagħti firjola u kurrigga għall-parti magħrufa bl-Ingliż bħala false keel. Ma jattestax kontrapirmiżżan.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "miegħed",
      "sense": "en-miegħed-mt-verb-XH-hwdkN",
      "fromPos": "verb",
      "toPos": "verb",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-miegħed-mt-verb-XH-hwdkN",
        "g": "to speak intelligibly, to mumble one's words",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 5443
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Source says intelligibly but also mumble; contradictory source needs verification."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-miegħed-mt-verb-XH-hwdkN",
        "g": "to speak unintelligibly, to mumble one's words",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "Jitkellem b’mod mhux ċar jew itemtem kliemu.",
        "mtKind": "editorial",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 5443
        },
        "originalGloss": "to speak intelligibly, to mumble one's words",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 5443,
          "status": "source-supported",
          "reason": "Falzon jagħti tifsira ta’ diskors li ma jinftiehemx. Fil-glossa oriġinali kienet nieqsa n-negazzjoni Ingliża, u għalhekk kienet tidher kontradizzjoni.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "Dizionario maltese-italiano-inglese",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ec4NAAAAQAAJ/page/n175/mode/1up",
              "location": "paġna 153",
              "supports": "Exact headword, imperfect and sense visually confirmed in left column of printed p153; local image research-c-falzon-175.jpg.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "nġab",
      "sense": "en-nġab-mt-verb-xpj8MeYL",
      "fromPos": "verb",
      "toPos": "verb",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-nġab-mt-verb-xpj8MeYL",
        "g": "to get on with",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 5988
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "The isolated English “get on with” does not establish whether the intended sense is social relations or continuing/managing an activity."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-nġab-mt-verb-xpj8MeYL",
        "g": "to get on with someone; to get along with someone; to be on good terms with someone",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "Jaqbel u jmur tajjeb ma’ xi ħadd.",
        "mtKind": "editorial",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 5988
        },
        "originalGloss": "to get on with",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 5988,
          "status": "source-supported",
          "reason": "Falzon jattesta l-forma storika inġieb u l-imperfett jinġieb fis-sens ta’ qbil; il-kuntest letterarju kkwotat minn Oliver Friggieri jikkonferma li wieħed imur tajjeb mal-oħrajn. L-evidenza tiċċara s-sens soċjali, mingħajr ma tippretendi deċiżjoni ortografika ġdida dwar il-lemma nġab.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "Dizionario maltese-italiano-inglese",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ec4NAAAAQAAJ/page/n121/mode/1up",
              "location": "paġna 99",
              "supports": "Historical related lemma/variant inġieb and imperfect jinġieb visually verified. It includes agreement in addition to being brought and being liked. Local image research-c-falzon-121.jpg.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "L-Għaqda tal-Kittieba tal-Malti ... qabel it-twaqqif",
              "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/61591/1/L-G%C4%A7aqda%20tal-Kittieba%20tal-Malti.pdf#page=3",
              "location": "paġna 88",
              "supports": "Independent scholarly literary history quotes Il Ħabib, 11 July 1912, issue22 p3. The collocation with everyone and no wish to quarrel clearly supplies the social get-along context.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "vomitorju",
      "sense": "en-vomitorju-mt-noun-nOlRJvdW",
      "fromPos": "noun",
      "toPos": "noun",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-vomitorju-mt-noun-nOlRJvdW",
        "g": "vomitory",
        "t": [
          "masculine"
        ],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 10026
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "English vomitory has both architectural and emetic noun senses; Maltese source gives no domain, so cannot select confidently."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-vomitorju-mt-noun-nOlRJvdW",
        "g": "vomitory",
        "t": [
          "masculine"
        ],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 10026
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Il-glossa “vomitory” tista’ tirreferi għal passaġġ f’teatru jew għal sustanza li ġġiegħel lil wieħed jirremetti. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella ma pprovdiex l-entrata Maltija. Għal Caruana u Aquilina nkisbu rekords bibliografiċi, iżda mhux paġni tal-entrati li jiċċaraw dan in-nom. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’forom u kuntesti relatati lanqas ma pprovda attestazzjoni Maltija indipendenti li ssolvi s-sens.",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 10026,
          "status": "unresolved",
          "reason": "Il-glossa “vomitory” tista’ tirreferi għal passaġġ f’teatru jew għal sustanza li ġġiegħel lil wieħed jirremetti. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella ma pprovdiex l-entrata Maltija. Għal Caruana u Aquilina nkisbu rekords bibliografiċi, iżda mhux paġni tal-entrati li jiċċaraw dan in-nom. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’forom u kuntesti relatati lanqas ma pprovda attestazzjoni Maltija indipendenti li ssolvi s-sens.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "original lexical source, not independent",
              "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vomitorju",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Maltese headword and noun POS only; does not disambiguate the English gloss.",
              "independent": false
            },
            {
              "title": "English lexical ambiguity check, not Maltese attestation",
              "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vomitory",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "English noun also denotes a public-venue entrance, so blindly selecting one is unsafe.",
              "independent": false
            },
            {
              "title": "Francesco Vella: Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese (1843)",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Saret tiftixa fit-test diġitalizzat. Nuqqas ta’ riżultat mhuwiex prova li kelma ma teżistix.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "xaba'",
      "sense": "en-xaba'-mt-verb-sVOSeHXT",
      "fromPos": "verb",
      "toPos": "noun",
      "beforePosition": 2,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-xaba'-mt-verb-sVOSeHXT",
        "g": "abundance",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 10286
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Source gloss is a noun but record POS is verb; needs source reconciliation."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-xaba'-mt-verb-sVOSeHXT",
        "g": "abundance",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "Kotra kbira jew abbundanza ta’ xi ħaġa.",
        "mtKind": "editorial",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 10286
        },
        "originalPos": "verb",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 10286,
          "status": "source-supported",
          "reason": "Is-sens ta’ abbundanza huwa nominali u huwa attestat ukoll fil-frażi bix-xaba’. Il-verb xaba’ jibqa’ f’entrata separata.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "Joseph Cutayar: Dizzjunarju Malti–Franċiż (2007), preview tal-pubblikatur",
              "url": "https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9782296174252_A24211632/preview-9782296174252_A24211632.pdf#page=13",
              "location": "paġna stampata 13, entrata abbundanza",
              "supports": "Il-frażi bix-xaba’ tidher fost l-espressjonijiet li jfissru abbundanza."
            },
            {
              "title": "In-Nadur fil-letteratura nazzjonali Maltija, Luminaria, Ġunju 2019; OAR Università ta’ Malta",
              "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/53137",
              "location": "paġna stampata 52",
              "supports": "L-analiżi tuża xaba’ bħala nom fil-kuntest tal-abbundanza tal-ambjent u tal-frott."
            },
            {
              "title": "G. B. Falzon: Dizionario maltese-italiano-inglese (1845)",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ec4NAAAAQAAJ",
              "location": "entrata Xabai (nom maskil)",
              "supports": "L-entrata nominali tagħti direttament is-sensi ta’ abbundanza u kotra.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "xaba'",
      "sense": "en-xaba'-mt-verb-IJwQcE5n",
      "fromPos": "verb",
      "toPos": "noun",
      "beforePosition": 1,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-xaba'-mt-verb-IJwQcE5n",
        "g": "verbal noun of xaba’",
        "t": [
          "form-of",
          "noun-from-verb"
        ],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "derivedFrom": [
          "xaba’"
        ],
        "mt": "Nom verbali ta’ “xaba’”.",
        "mtKind": "editorial",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-retain",
          "queueIndex": 10285
        }
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-xaba'-mt-verb-IJwQcE5n",
        "g": "verbal noun of xaba’",
        "t": [
          "form-of",
          "noun-from-verb"
        ],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "derivedFrom": [
          "xaba’"
        ],
        "mt": "Nom verbali ta’ “xaba’”.",
        "mtKind": "editorial",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-retain",
          "queueIndex": 10285
        },
        "originalPos": "verb",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 10286,
          "status": "source-supported",
          "reason": "L-entrata nnifisha hija deskritta bħala nom verbali; għandha tinżamm flimkien mas-sensi nominali, mhux mal-konjugazzjoni tal-verb.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "Joseph Cutayar: Dizzjunarju Malti–Franċiż (2007), preview tal-pubblikatur",
              "url": "https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9782296174252_A24211632/preview-9782296174252_A24211632.pdf#page=13",
              "location": "paġna stampata 13, entrata abbundanza",
              "supports": "Il-frażi bix-xaba’ tidher fost l-espressjonijiet li jfissru abbundanza."
            },
            {
              "title": "In-Nadur fil-letteratura nazzjonali Maltija, Luminaria, Ġunju 2019; OAR Università ta’ Malta",
              "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/53137",
              "location": "paġna stampata 52",
              "supports": "L-analiżi tuża xaba’ bħala nom fil-kuntest tal-abbundanza tal-ambjent u tal-frott."
            },
            {
              "title": "G. B. Falzon: Dizionario maltese-italiano-inglese (1845)",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ec4NAAAAQAAJ",
              "location": "entrata Xabai (nom maskil)",
              "supports": "L-entrata nominali tagħti direttament is-sensi ta’ abbundanza u kotra.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "żinżel tal-baħar",
      "sense": "en-żinżel_tal-baħar-mt-noun-moS28oVX",
      "fromPos": "noun",
      "toPos": "noun",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-żinżel_tal-baħar-mt-noun-moS28oVX",
        "g": "Lioberus agglutinans, a genus of mussels",
        "t": [
          "collective",
          "masculine"
        ],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 10902
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Source calls a binomial a genus; taxonomic identification needs reliable confirmation."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-żinżel_tal-baħar-mt-noun-moS28oVX",
        "g": "Lioberus agglutinans, a species of mussel in the family Mytilidae",
        "t": [
          "collective",
          "masculine"
        ],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 10902
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Il-paġna skennjata ta’ Lanfranco issa ġiet eżaminata viżwalment. L-entrata 61 tagħti Żinżla tal-Baħar għal Modiolus barbatus, filwaqt li l-entrata 63 tagħti Żinżla, mingħajr tal-baħar, għall-ispeċi agglutinans. Dan joħloq kunflitt mal-identifikazzjoni oriġinali tal-kompost bħala Lioberus agglutinans. Il-forma kollettiva żinżel tal-baħar u l-identifikazzjoni tagħha jibqgħu jeħtieġu kjarifika; ma ntagħżlitx speċi awtomatikament.",
        "originalGloss": "Lioberus agglutinans, a genus of mussels",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 10902,
          "status": "unresolved",
          "reason": "Il-paġna skennjata ta’ Lanfranco issa ġiet eżaminata viżwalment. L-entrata 61 tagħti Żinżla tal-Baħar għal Modiolus barbatus, filwaqt li l-entrata 63 tagħti Żinżla, mingħajr tal-baħar, għall-ispeċi agglutinans. Dan joħloq kunflitt mal-identifikazzjoni oriġinali tal-kompost bħala Lioberus agglutinans. Il-forma kollettiva żinżel tal-baħar u l-identifikazzjoni tagħha jibqgħu jeħtieġu kjarifika; ma ntagħżlitx speċi awtomatikament.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "WoRMS/MolluscaBase expert taxonomy",
              "url": "https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?id=140434&p=taxdetails",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Amygdalum agglutinans is unaccepted and the accepted combination is Lioberus agglutinans. Search-indexed official result was readable; a later direct fetch returned403.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle specimen catalogue, primary",
              "url": "https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/im/item/2022-13269?listIndex=258",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Independent museum taxonomy clearly distinguishes genus and species.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Delongueville & Scaillet (2023), Novapex24(2):77–85",
              "url": "https://www.vliz.be/projects/scarmarbin/imis.php?module=ref&refid=391613",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Expert paper distinguishes L. agglutinans from L. ligneus and warns of Eastern Mediterranean misidentifications; does not attest the Maltese common name.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "mirror of original Wiktionary data, not independent",
              "url": "https://kaikki.org/dictionary/Maltese/pos-noun/%C5%BCift--%C5%BCirkonju.html",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Confirms the original name link but repeats the rank error, so must not be counted as new corroboration.",
              "independent": false
            },
            {
              "title": "Guido Lanfranco: Maltese names of local marine mollusca (1974)",
              "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/110691/3/23.11_Maltese_names_of_1974.pdf#page=8",
              "location": "paġna 8 tal-PDF, entrati 61 u 63",
              "supports": "Il-qari tal-ismijiet issa huwa kkonfermat viżwalment. Żinżla tal-Baħar hija marbuta ma’ Modiolus barbatus; Żinżla waħedha hija marbuta ma’ agglutinans. Il-limitazzjoni preċedenti tal-OCR ġiet solvuta, iżda l-identifikazzjonijiet tas-sorsi ma jaqblux.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "WoRMS / MolluscaBase: Modiolus barbatus",
              "url": "https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?id=140464&p=taxdetails",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Tikkonferma t-tassonomija ta’ Modiolus barbatus; ma tikkonfermax waħedha l-isem Malti.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "żnatura",
      "sense": "en-żnatura-mt-verb-KGU5p7o9",
      "fromPos": "verb",
      "toPos": "verb",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-żnatura-mt-verb-KGU5p7o9",
        "g": "to denaturalize",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 10928
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Denaturalize is ambiguous between altering nature and removing citizenship; source context insufficient."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-żnatura-mt-verb-KGU5p7o9",
        "g": "to denaturalize; to alter or distort the original nature, character or meaning of something",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "Ibiddel jew jgħawweġ in-natura, il-karattru jew it-tifsira oriġinali ta’ xi ħaġa.",
        "mtKind": "editorial",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 10928
        },
        "originalGloss": "to denaturalize",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 10928,
          "status": "source-supported",
          "reason": "L-użu f’sentenza tal-Qorti tal-Appell jattesta t-tgħawwiġ tan-ness kuntrattwali. Dan jikkonferma l-bidla jew it-tgħawwiġ tan-natura u tat-tifsira, mingħajr ma jiżdied sens mhux attestat dwar iċ-ċittadinanza.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "Appell Inferjuri34/2022LM, Kunsill Lokali tal-Gżira vs L-Awtorità tal-Artijiet,26April2023",
              "url": "https://ecourts.gov.mt/onlineservices/Judgements/PrintPdf?CaseJudgementId=138517&JudgementId=0",
              "location": "paġna 36",
              "supports": "The paragraph then describes an allegation that contractual conditions were varied and modified. Lexical attestation only: the Court rejects the substantive allegation on the following page.",
              "independent": true
            },
            {
              "title": "Commission Regulation(EEC)2351/72, Maltese Special Edition03/Vol.1",
              "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/MT/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX%3A31972R2351",
              "location": "paġna 347",
              "supports": "Technical change of sugar to make it suitable only for intended animal-feed use; does not support loss of citizenship.",
              "independent": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "word": "żnazzjonalizza",
      "sense": "en-żnazzjonalizza-mt-verb-o5kX0Wnb",
      "fromPos": "verb",
      "toPos": "verb",
      "beforePosition": 0,
      "before": {
        "id": "en-żnazzjonalizza-mt-verb-o5kX0Wnb",
        "g": "to denationalize",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 10929
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Denationalize may mean removal of nationality or state ownership; source context insufficient."
      },
      "after": {
        "id": "en-żnazzjonalizza-mt-verb-o5kX0Wnb",
        "g": "to denationalize",
        "t": [],
        "q": "",
        "syn": [],
        "ant": [],
        "mt": "It-tifsira ta’ din l-entrata għadha qed tiġi vverifikata. Ara t-test oriġinali bl-Ingliż.",
        "mtKind": "unresolved",
        "mtReview": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "pass": "completion",
          "method": "individual-hold",
          "queueIndex": 10929
        },
        "mtReviewNote": "Għadha ma nkisbitx entrata Maltija indipendenti li tiddistingwi bejn it-tneħħija taċ-ċittadinanza, il-bidla tal-karattru nazzjonali u t-tneħħija tas-sjieda mill-istat. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella ma ċċarax il-verb; l-entrati rilevanti ta’ Caruana u Aquilina ma kinux aċċessibbli. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’forom u kuntesti relatati lanqas ma pprovda attestazzjoni Maltija indipendenti li ssolvi s-sens.",
        "editorial": true,
        "mtVerification": {
          "date": "2026-10-23",
          "caseIndex": 10929,
          "status": "unresolved",
          "reason": "Għadha ma nkisbitx entrata Maltija indipendenti li tiddistingwi bejn it-tneħħija taċ-ċittadinanza, il-bidla tal-karattru nazzjonali u t-tneħħija tas-sjieda mill-istat. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’Vella ma ċċarax il-verb; l-entrati rilevanti ta’ Caruana u Aquilina ma kinux aċċessibbli. It-tiftix ulterjuri f’forom u kuntesti relatati lanqas ma pprovda attestazzjoni Maltija indipendenti li ssolvi s-sens.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "title": "original lexical source, not independent",
              "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C5%BCnazzjonalizza",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Only the original ambiguous English gloss.",
              "independent": false
            },
            {
              "title": "Chinese Wiktionary derivative; not independent Maltese evidence",
              "url": "https://kaikki.org/zhwiktionary/All%20languages%20combined/words/%C5%BCejt--%C5%BCnazzjonalizzazzjonijiet.html",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "A derivative interprets this as removing state ownership; this cannot substitute for Maltese attestation.",
              "independent": false
            },
            {
              "title": "Francesco Vella: Dizionario portatile delle lingue maltese, italiana, inglese (1843)",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/dizionarioporta00vellgoog",
              "location": "",
              "supports": "Saret tiftixa fit-test diġitalizzat. Nuqqas ta’ riżultat mhuwiex prova li kelma ma teżistix.",
              "independent": true
            }
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}