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- noun Plural form of
feminine .
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Examples
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Interestingly, -it is said to form feminines in Hattic as in hanwasuit 'throne' so could a Hattic form *mel-it be analysed this way too?
Missing honey 2010
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Interestingly, -it is said to form feminines in Hattic as in hanwasuit 'throne' so could a Hattic form *mel-it be analysed this way too?
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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My spidey senses are telling me something disturbing though, that a noun that ends in a patientive suffix -aχ used to make derivative nouns from verbs, that uses an l-genitive normally given to feminines & neuters, and that is attested in the inessive three times screams like an inanimate object more than the term for a person.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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My spidey senses are telling me something disturbing though, that a noun that ends in a patientive suffix -aχ used to make derivative nouns from verbs, that uses an l-genitive normally given to feminines & neuters, and that is attested in the inessive three times screams like an inanimate object more than the term for a person.
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In the same way they lengthen genitive singulars in [Greek omitted], as [Greek omitted], and genitive feminines in [Greek omitted], as [Greek omitted],
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Getting clear, at length, of this crowd of feminines, "presto" was the word, and away we bowled along one of the most beautiful roads I have ever seen.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay
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Was it because Heine lived for years in Paris on the adulation of advanced feminines?
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I can't say whether the feminines are quite so particular; I am not so certain on that point, but then you must make every allowance, they have a deal to put up with.
Leslie Ross: or, Fond of a Lark Charles Bruce
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-- Are not _Baxter_ and _Tupster_ the feminines of _Baker_ and _Tapper_?
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Objects of fear and reverence would be usually masculines; and objects of love and desire feminines.
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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