This was an early module designed to format and expand glossing abbreviations. It was used by an earlier version of Template:Gloss-abbr. It has been superseded by Template:gcl (which uses Module:Interlinear).
local p = {}
local data = {
["1s"] = "first person singular",
["2s"] = "second person singular",
["3s"] = "third person plural",
["1p"] = "first person plural",
["2p"] = "second person plural",
["3p"] = "third person plural",
["ind"] = "indicative mood",
["sjv"] = "subjunctive mood",
["part"] = "participle",
["imp"] = "imperative",
}
data["sbjv"] = data["sjv"]
function p.abbr(frame)
local args = frame:getParent().args[1] and frame:getParent().args or frame.args
local abbreviation = args[1] or error("Provide an abbreviation in parameter 1")
local key = string.gsub(abbreviation, "%.$", "")
key = string.lower(key)
local expanded = data[key] or error("The abbreviation "..(abbreviation or "nil").." is not recognized")
return '<abbr title="'..expanded..'">'..abbreviation..'</abbr>'
end
return p