| 释义 |
prefixial, a.|priːˈfɪksɪəl|
[f. prefix n.]
= prefixal a.
1975Verbatim Dec. 13/2 ‘Bantu’..was coined in the 1850s by a philologist, Wilhelm Bleek, to characterize those peoples south of the Sahara speaking a group of related languages featuring prefixial concords, that is, a system in which the prefix is inflected to indicate grammatical case and number rather than, as in most western European languages, the suffix. 1976Archivum Linguisticum VII. 136 Except for some prefixial combinations, the determinatum usually receives weak stress in English. |