[12] Rodriguez does not treat the substantive verb in Arte Breve, but refers the reader to his earlier work for its description.
[13] Verbo pessoal as contrasted with verbo substantivo and verbo adjectivo.
[14] Rodriguez defines this term elsewhere (Arte, 56) as the vowels, A, I, V, Ye, Vo, in that order. See also the introduction to the Vocabulario.
[15] This term, not found in the Arte, is applied to the entire complex of "spelling" rules which Rodriguez introduces into his description. While no clear-cut influences can be established, it is generally held by Doi and others that these rules are based upon Kanazukai no chikamichi or some similar work. See Kokugogaku taikei, Vol. 9 (Tokyo, 1964), pp. 69-77.
[16] Latin liquesco, "to become fluid, or melt." Used here as a term to describe the palatal and labial series.
[17] This last phrase is to be understood in the context of the following passages which deal with euphonic change in the absence of a devise, nigori ten, to show voicing.
[18] Rodriguez used Vma regularly in the Arte, but notes the variant Muma on 178v.
[19] Presumably a reference to such variants as Samurô for Saburô.
[20] Liurinho, presumably a treatise such as the Kanazukai no chikamichi, by Ichijō Kanera.
[21] In this passage Rodriguez is suggesting that certain European grammarians, out of ignorance of native grammatical theory, have misinterpreted the formational rules; and that, perhaps for pedogogical convenience, he has retained some of these "unnatural" rules in his description.