单词 | pausal |
释义 | pausaladj.n. Linguistics. A. adj. Of or relating to a pause in speech; spec. (in the grammar of Arabic, Hebrew, and other Semitic languages) designating the form which a word receives in pause, whereby, in certain cases, a vowel is changed (usually lengthened), or a weakened vowel reappears in full (cf. pause n. Phrases 3). ΚΠ 1786 A. Geddes Prospectus New Transl. Holy Bible 64 Our written language has no pausal marks, and our prosody is not regulated by any tonic distinctions. 1828 C. Leo tr. W. Gesenius Hebrew Lex. Old Test. II. 778/1 Instances of a pausal form with a lesser distinctive accent sometimes occur. 1836 J. Nicholson tr. G. H. A. Ewald Gram. Hebrew Lang. Old Test. §130. 46 In cases where this impulse of the language is not hindered by the form from expressing its influence clearly, pausal forms are distinguished from the usual forms. 1877 C. T. Ball Merchant Taylors' Hebrew Gram. 76 In the pausal forms an original vowel, shortened to shewa out of pause, is preserved. 1907 H. H. Powell Supposed Hebraisms in Gram. Biblical Aramaic in Univ. of Calif. Publ. in Semitic Philol. Feb. 14 In Arabic the consonants are written written as the words were spoken when isolated, each by itself, i.e., unconnected with the preceding word, and in the pausal form with reference to the following word... In Hebrew and Aramaic the absolute state of nouns is properly a pausal form. 1919 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Lang. & Lit. Jan. 106 The form Dodā is here pausal, and it is the only pausal form of the name recorded. 1934 Lang. 10 60 French has a voiceless or whispered l in the pausal forms of such words as oncle, peuple, simple. 1959 Word 15 20 Pausal phenomena..function essentially as non-significant events which may serve to identify linguistically relevant units. 1995 S. Levin Semitic & Indo-European II. ix. 219 The Sanskrit long vowel {-ā} is structurally, and perhaps phonetically, closer than the Latin -ă to the Arabic pausal [-ah]. 2013 W. M. Schniederwind Social Hist. Hebrew viii. 187 The penultimate accentuation of the qal imperfect forms..is widely known in biblical Hebrew as a pausal form resulting from the accent on a final syllable. B. n. A pausal form of a word. rare. ΚΠ 1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 928/1 [ḥadrāḵ], probably the Pausal [Ger. Pausalform] of [ḥadraḵ]. 1995 S. Levin Semitic & Indo-European II. vii. 92 The pausal form of the Hebrew stative verb..{qɔré̄} ‘he is/was near’..differs from the Arabic pausal only in the fricative of ב after a vowel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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