inflected form

  • 61reduplicate — v. /ri dooh pli kayt , dyooh /; adj. /ri dooh pli kit, kayt , dyooh /, v., reduplicated, reduplicating, adj. v.t. 1. to double; repeat. 2. Gram. to form (a derivative or inflected form) by doubling a specified syllable or other portion of the… …

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  • 62fronting — noun a) A phonological relationship where a front vowel is found in place of a relative back vowel in an inflected form of a word. b) An analogous relationship between the vowel sounds in a dialect of a language relative to the language standard… …

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  • 63Ellor — This interesting surname has three origins. Firstly, it may be of German origin, being either a locational name from places in the North Rhine and Moselle areas, so called from an old stream name Elera, Alira , possibly of Celtic origin, or a… …

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  • 64decline — [14] The notion underlying decline is of ‘bending away’. It comes via Old French decliner from Latin dēclināre ‘turn aside, go down’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē , ‘away, aside’ and clināre ‘bend’, which also produced English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 65pillow — [OE] Pillow in a recognizable form emerged in the 14th century. It was based on an inflected form of Old English pyle ‘pillow’. This came via a prehistoric West Germanic *pulwīn (source also of German pfühl and Dutch peluw ‘pillow’) from Latin… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 66inflection — in•flec•tion [[t]ɪnˈflɛk ʃən[/t]] n. 1) modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice 2) gram. a) the process of adding affixes to or changing the shape of a base to give it a different syntactic function without changing its form… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 67reduplicate — re•du•pli•cate v. [[t]rɪˈdu plɪˌkeɪt, ˈdyu [/t]] adj. [[t] kɪt, ˌkeɪt[/t]] v. cat•ed, cat•ing, adj. 1) to double; repeat 2) gram. to form (a derivative or inflected form) by doubling a syllable or other part of a word, sometimes with… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 68reduplicate — verb (reduplicated, reduplicating) –verb (t) /riˈdjupləkeɪt/ (say ree dyoohpluhkayt) 1. to double; repeat. 2. Grammar to form (a derivative or inflected form) by doubling a specified syllable or other portion of the primitive, sometimes with… …

  • 69suppletive — /səˈplitɪv/ (say suh pleetiv), /ˈsʌplətɪv/ (say supluhtiv) adjective Linguistics 1. (of a linguistic form) serving as an inflected form of a word with a totally different stem, e.g., went as the preterite of go. 2. (of a paradigm) including one… …

  • 70forget — has the inflected form forgetting and the derivative form forgettable, both with tt …

    Modern English usage