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averbal

adj

Etymology

From a- + verbal.

  1. derived from verbālis — “belonging to a word”
  2. derived from verbal
  3. prefixed as averbal — “a + verbal”

Definitions

  1. Not verbal

    Not verbal; without words and speech.

    • It is not yet clear how these birds were able to “count” and to form averbal concepts of numbers without the help of characterizing words.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for averbal. 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