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guessive

adj

Etymology

From guess + -ive.

  1. derived from *gʰed-✻ — “to take, seize”
  2. derived from *getaną✻ — “to get”
  3. derived from *gitisōną✻ — “to guess”
  4. derived from *getsa✻
  5. derived from getse
  6. inherited from gesse
  7. inherited from gessen
  8. suffixed as guessive — “guess + ive”

Definitions

  1. conjectural

    • So in Beasts , in Birds , in Dreams , and all viary Omens , they are only the guessive interpretations of dim - ey'd Man

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for guessive. 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