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i-stem

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  • noun linguistics A word, especially a noun in Indo-European linguistics, whose stem ends in /i/.

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  • You never bothered reading Douglas/Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, p.271 under *mélit: "... while OIr mil gen. melo is an i-stem, analogically refashioned after the u-stem 'mead'."

    My sweet honey bee 2010

  • Observe that all i-stem adjectives have «-ī» in the ablative singular.

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • Glen Gordon: "You never bothered reading Douglas/Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, p.271 under *mélit: "... while OIr mil gen. melo is an i-stem, analogically refashioned after the u-stem 'mead'."

    My sweet honey bee 2010

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