| 单词 | starred form |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstarred form g. Linguistics. Of a word, word form, etc.: marked with an asterisk to indicate that it is hypothetical or reconstructed, or that it is ungrammatical or otherwise unlikely to be found in natural language. Chiefly in starred form. ΚΠ 1888 H. Logeman Rule of St. Benet Introd. p. xxxiii Absolutely wrong forms are starred. 1888 H. Logeman Rule of St. Benet Introd. p. xxxvii The several blunders—see the starred forms—for which we must blame one or more of the scribes. 1922 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 43 160 Three of these compounds are starred in Harper's Lexicon. 1949 Language 25 143 Only where several lines of thought all point toward one etymon, where the hypothesis represents a definite probability rather than a faint possibility, is it advisable to introduce starred bases. 1973 R. Quirk in R. I. McDavid & A. R. Duckert Lexicogr. in Eng. 83 American English items [in a dictionary] are prefixed by a warning asterisk (an unhappy emblem when we consider what a starred form means in linguistics). 2014 C. Callaghan Proto Utian Gram. Prol. 6 The supportive evidence for each reconstruction is cited immediately below the starred form. < as lemmas |
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