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  • adjective Alternative spelling of inflectional.

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Examples

  • Europeans brought up on the classical heritage had been used to look upon the com - plicated inflexional system of Latin and Greek as a sure sign of superiority.

    STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

  • Pre - fixes, derivational suffixes, and inflexional affixes were accurately described and their function defined.

    STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

  • The inflexional _-r_ of the nominative singular masculine is also omitted, whether it appears as _-r_ or is assimilated to a preceding consonant (as in Odinn, Eysteinn, Heindall, Egill) in the

    The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday

  • Materially the copula is expressed by some part of the verb 'to be,' with or without the negative, or else is wrapped up in some inflexional form of a verb.

    Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

  • Thus in Latin we say 'Boni sapientes sunt,' and in English 'The good are wise,' because it is sufficiently declared by the inflexional form in the one case, and by the usage of the language in the other, that men are signified.

    Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

  • The "Old Bulgarian," or archaic Slavonic, was an inflexional language of the synthetic type, containing few foreign elements in its vocabulary.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • They were symbols, non-agglutinative and non-inflexional, and were written in vertical columns, probably from having in early times been painted or cut on strips of bark.

    Myths and Legends of China 1909

  • Aorist in - a.a. Another inflexional form for the frequency of which the classical student will hardly be prepared is the aorist in - a in other than semivowel verbs.

    A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

  • The irregularities consist chiefly of neglect of the laws of position, of final long vowels, of inflexional endings, and of double letters, which last, according to some grammarians, were not used until the time of Ennius.

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

  • The reader is recommended to compare it word for word with the parallel slightly modernised version, bearing in mind the inflexional terminations.

    Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873

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