Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
heteroclite .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.
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- adjective linguistics In linguistics, particularly
Indo-European Studies, signifying astem whichalternates between more than one form when declined for grammaticalcase . Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include *wod-r/n- "water" (nominoaccusative *wódr;genitive *udnés;locative *udén) and *yékw-r/n- "liver" (nominoaccusative *yékwr, genitive *ikwnés). In Proto-Indo-European, heteroclitic stems tend to be noun stems with grammaticallyinanimate gender. - noun A heteroclitic noun.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thus, the heteroclitic verb car-tanaiy (present stem kunau, past stem kar- or car) had the past participle kr̥-ta-, which yields New Persian kard-an (present stem -kon-, past stem kard-).
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First, the genitive should be *udnós because it's a heteroclitic inanimate.
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Maybe you'll understand better my point of view when I talk about the origin of heteroclitic stems in Mid IE, word-final denasalization and QAR :
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It would be heteroclitic, to place the brains of Brother Jonathan in the South.
An Apology for African Methodism Benjamin Tucker 1867
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Even Jaan Puhvel in Hittite Etymological Dictionary, vol.6 as of 2004 notes the immense problems under the heading milit(t)-:The precise accordance between Hittite and (already Mycenaean) Greek [...], and cognates elsewhere [...], are at serious variance with the heteroclitic postulation *meli-t/mel-nes (e.g.
Missing honey 2010
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Even Jaan Puhvel in Hittite Etymological Dictionary, vol.6 as of 2004 notes the immense problems under the heading milit(t)-:The precise accordance between Hittite and (already Mycenaean) Greek [...], and cognates elsewhere [...], are at serious variance with the heteroclitic postulation *meli-t/mel-nes (e.g.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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