单词 | preteritive present |
释义 | preteritive presentn.adj. Grammar. Now rare. A. n. = preterite-present n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [noun] > other specific types of verb vocative verbc1414 activec1450 passivec1450 substantive verba1475 neuter1530 gesture1612 nominal1666 quiescent1720 reduplicative1756 dative verb1844 factitive1845 preterite-present1859 compound verb1863 pro-verb1868 preterito-presentia1870 preteritive present1872 action verb1877 verbid1914 inversive1931 eventive1946 hypothetical1957 non-factive1970 commonization1973 contrafactive1985 1872 F. A. March Introd. to Anglo-Saxon 130 (subtitle) Preteritive presents. 1885 A. S. Cook tr. E. Sievers Old Eng. Gram. §417 The Germanic preteritive presents [Ger. die verba praeteritopresentia des germanischen] have sprung from strong verbs whose preterits have assumed a present meaning (like Lat. memini, novi, coepi, Gr. οἶδα), while the original presents have disappeared. 1899 W. J. Sedgefield K. Ælfred's Boeth. 207 Verbs with preteritive presents..e.g. mæg, deah. B. adj. = preterite-present adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adjective] > other specific types of verb commonc1450 personal?1482 perfect1530 valuative1566 suppletive1633 auxiliary1751 active-passive1859 mutative1866 preterito-presential1875 preterite-present1888 passival1892 preteritive present1894 applicative1903 injunctive1910 activo-passive1927 ornative1934 eventive1946 notional1957 non-factive1969 contrafactive1979 1894 O. F. Henderson Hist. Eng. Lang. xxii. 381 We have already shown how the formation of preteritive present verbs has gone on in English. 1935 M. I. O'Sullivan Firumbras & Otuel & Roland Introd. p. lxxix The preteritive present verbs durran, magan, sculan, regularly keep the vowel distinction between singular and plural. 1959 PMLA 74 174/1 As for the second, the archetype need not be earlier than A, for (excluding the anomalous, contract, and preteritive-present verbs) this text has almost exclusively u- and o-endings. 2005 Re: are Contractions Part of Speech? in sci.lang (Usenet newsgroup) 17 Feb. Morphologically it is the ‘new’ (now obsolete?) weak preterit of ‘dare’, a preteritive-present verb. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1872 |
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