singulativen.
/ˈsɪŋɡjʊlətɪv/ Grammar.
(See quot. 1966); also, a singular form.
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verbalizer1888
premedial1925
postradical1937
postmedial1946
replacive1948
subtractive1948
non-nuclear1961
prefixoid1963
singulative1966
1952 Meillet & Cohen Langues du Monde (ed. 2) 1279 Singulatif, morphème ayant pour fonction de donner à un mot une valeur de singulier, généralement par opposition à un collectif.]
1966 M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. Singulative, a morpheme having for its function to give a word the force of a singular, usually by way of opposition to a collective (rice, rice-grain).
1970 J. M. Dodgson Place-names Cheshire I. 151 The -inn, -enn suffix is not diminutive but a singulative... The singulative effect would indicate some particularised aspect of a location—e.g. a particular piece of moorland in a general area of moors.
1977 Word 28 194 Clocs: plural clocsiau...; doubly characterized plural, with a new ‘singulative’ clocsen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1966- stone-fall
- stone-fencing
- stone-fern
- stone-field
- stone-fish
- stone-flagged
- stone-floored
- stone-flower
- stone-fly
- stone-fox
- stone-fruit
- stone-gall
- stone-gatherer
- stone-getter
- stone-glass
- stone-grape
- stone-grave
- stone-graver
- stone-grey
- stone-grig
- stone-grist
- stone-ground
- stone-gun
- stone-hammer
- stone-hand