ken, taket, etc.Other characters (long a, long o, etc.) are included in searches for all other normal lowercase occurrences of that letter (a, o).
Regular expression searching: It is possible to use wildcard characters in a modified form of regular expression searching to look for variants on spelling or form of a word.
* means zero or more of any character
? means one of any character
[ ] means any one of the characters in brackets
For example:
| tak | "tak" as a complete form | tak |
| *tak | "tak" at the end of a word | psitak, stak, tak, thistel-tak |
| tak* | "tak" at the beginning of a word | tak, takel, tken, taket, etc. |
| t[aeiou]k | "tak", "tek", "tik", "tok", "tuk", as complete forms | tak, tik, tuk |
| t*aunce | "t" followed by zero or more of any character before "aunce", as complete forms | temperaunce, traunce, tresaunce, etc. |
| tr?m | "tr" followed by any one character before an "m", as complete forms | trim, trum |
| t???m | "t" followed by any by any three characters before an "m", as complete forms | tharm, theim, thrum |
A search form with full regular expression searching is also available.
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