| 单词 | root determinative |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroot determinative root determinative n. [after German Wurzeldeterminativ (1858)] (in Indo-European) a consonantal suffix added to a root, which limits or modifies its meaning. ΚΠ 1864 B. W. Dwight Mod. Philol. (ed. 3) I. 350 These additions expanding the form, while limiting the sense of the simple ultimate root itself, and so having a very sharply defining power in themselves, we call root-determinatives, as dh in yudh. 1913 S. T. H. Hurwitz Root-determinatives in Semitic Speech i. 5 The root-determinative..is a constant; and..any apparent variation from the principle is due to the affixing of other distinct determinative elements. 1993 W. P. Lehmann Theoret. Bases of Indo-European Linguistics (1996) vii. 147 It [sc. English] maintains processes inaugurated in Proto-Indo-European, by which root determinatives and suffixes are used for expressing nominal and verbal functions. < as lemmas |
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