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adverbhood

noun

Etymology

From adverb + -hood.

  1. derived from adverbium
  2. borrowed from adverbe
  3. formed as adverbhood — “adverb + -hood”

Definitions

  1. The property of being an adverb.

    • The only candidate for adverbhood seems to be schnell, as indicated by the English gloss.
    • Using form as a criterion for adverbhood leaves us with a highly mixed bag of forms with little in common, such as HOWEVER, OFTEN, NOT, VERY, MORE, EVEN, OUT, DOWNSTAIRS, etc.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for adverbhood. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA