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gerundal

adj

Etymology

From gerund + -al.

  1. borrowed from gerundium
  2. formed as gerundal — “gerund + -al”

Definitions

  1. Being or pertaining to a gerund.

    • The difference between these forms is, however, purely phonetic, since the gerund may also be mutated and the infinitive may appear in gerundal form ...
    • c. Cartier's defeating Dugué is significant (gerundal or verbal noun clause) d. Nelson saw Cartier defeating Dugué (participial clause)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gerundal. 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