单词 | root period |
释义 | > as lemmasroot period root period n. Linguistics (now rare) that period of the development of language (or of a language) in which it is composed only of roots or radicals. ΚΠ 1869 Baptist Q. Oct. 429 Among the earliest advances out of the primitive root-period was doubtless the uniting of the personal pronouns to a verb stem. 1909 O. Jespersen Progress in Lang. iv. 82 We have to picture to ourselves the primeval structure of our own language (in the root-period) as something analogous. 2001 F. Curta Making of Slavs i. 6 Herder's concept of national character (Volksgeist), unalterably set in language during its early ‘root’ period, made language the perfect instrument for exploring the history of the Slavs. < as lemmas |
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