substrataladj.

1838 New Monthly Mag. July 304 The gymnosophists..had discovered the naked truth, the truth stripped of all its disfiguring connexions with substratal matter, and divested of all the obligations of reality.

1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 495 This is the substratal view of the origin and relations of the surface soil.

1881 J. S. Blackie Lay Serm. iii. 115 The one proof or evidence that belongs to both is the reasonable substratal element which they imply.

1901 A. Greenwell & J. V. Elsden Roads xii. 131 It is also claimed that the substratal pavement of the Telford road provides for thorough drainage.

1943 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1941 22 Before tracing any substratal influence in Irish, it is important to note that the Gaulish fragments do not show a trace of..construction.

1957 Language 33 210 That a large belt of at least substratal unity existed in southern Anatolia is proved by the toponyms in -nd- and -ss-.

1976 Jrnl. Paleontol. 50 468 Some beds have substratal organic markings resembling burrows.

2006 P. Wexler Jewish & Non-Jewish Creators of ‘Jewish’ Langs. i. 37 Some (if not all) substratal features from Hebrew-Aramaic..were adjusted, at least in the initial stages, to native patterns.