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afformative, a. (n.) Philol.|əˈfɔːmətɪv|
[f. af- + formative a.]
Affixed as a formative element; said of a letter, syllable, etc. As n., an afformative particle; a suffix (esp. in Semitic languages). Cf. preformative.
1821M. Stuart Heb. Gram. 139 The Imperative has no Praeformatives like the Future, but only Afformatives, or Suffix-formatives. 1858Trans. Philol. Soc. i. xii. 179 (title) On constant affixes and afformatives in the Hebrew language. 1864E. B. Pusey Daniel i. 47 The inflection of a passive participle by the afformatives of the preterite. 1880B. Davies tr. F. W. W. Gesenius's Heb. Gram. 114 The characteristic Pă′thăch of the second syllable becomes Sh⊇wâ before an afformative beginning with a vowel. 1942Antiquity XVI. 325 The afformative of the perfect tense. 1952Archivum Linguisticum IV. 61 Substantives involving both preformative ma- and afformative -ān > -ōn are not unknown in North-west Semitic. |