gerundival
adjEtymology
From gerundive + -al.
Definitions
Pertaining to the gerundive form of a word.
- The whole is concluded by the addition of the noun suffix gna, which itself carries a gerundival force.
- Nominal declensions, verbal case endings, gerundival constructions, in short, the full range of grammatical alterations—for which Sanskrit has a particular genius and meticulous order—announce language itself as a field of alterity.
- The process of 'gerundival attraction' is a sort of conjuring trick whereby a gerund is turned into a gerundive.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for gerundival. 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