| 释义 |
verbify, v.|ˈvɜːbɪfaɪ|
[f. verb 1 + -ify.]
trans. To convert (a noun, etc.) into a verb. Also absol.
a1813[see verbifying ppl. a. below]. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue 183 Not only does the language avail itself of this facility of verbifying a noun, but even [etc.]. 1884Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. XV. p. xxvii, Nouns become verbified by the appending of inflectional affixes, generally suffixes, and are inflected like verbs. Ibid. p. xxxii, Hitchiti verbifies in the same manner.
So ˈverbified, ˈverbifying ppl. adjs.
a1813Murray Hist. Europ. Lang. (1823) II. 265 A consonant or long vowel may intervene, which vowel or consonant may be justly called the verbifying consignificative. 1884Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. XV. p. xxxii, An instance of a verbified substantive, miki, ‘chief’, was presented above. |