单词 | root class |
释义 | > as lemmasroot class root class n. [after German Wurzelklasse (1824 or earlier)] Linguistics (in certain Indo-European languages) a class of verbs in which the present stem is identical with the root. ΚΠ 1879 W. D. Whitney Sanskrit Gram. ix. 208 The root-class [of verbs]..its present-stem is coincident with the root itself. 1933 Language 9 8 All scholars are agreed that root-class verbs such as IE esmi ‘I am’..represent an archaic conjugation type which tends to die out in all historic languages. 1995 A. L. Sihler New Compar. Gram. of Greek & Lat. 538 The irregular verbs..do not conform to any of the four conjugations... The usual reason for this is the survival of athematic forms of the root class. < as lemmas |
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