In the Greek Morphological Lexicon, we currently keep apart foreign words from the rest of the elements included in EAGLES under the general category of Residual. This distinction allows us to code further information on foreign words necessitated by the morphosyntactic system of Greek. In this category, we include only those foreign words that have not been adapted to the morphological system of Greek and, furthermore, are not considered true Greek words.
However, the inclusion of foreign words under the Residual category can be easily carried out, given the tag Fw used for this category.
Two additional features are used for foreign words: Form and Fw-cat. The first attribute is used to distinguish between foreign words that are transliterated in the Greek alphabet and those kept in their original (typically Latin) form, and the second attribute is used to code the grammatical category of the foreign word in order to facilitate further syntactic parsing of the texts.
| Attribute | Value | Gr. example | Gr. tag |
| Form | translit | Tzeikomp | FwTr |
| original | Jacob | FwOr | |
| Attribute | Value | Gr. example | Gr. tag |
| Fw-cat | noun | Tzeikomp | FwTrNo |
| abbrev | EEC | FwOrAb | |
| other | cogito | FwOrOt | |