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irrealis

adj
/ɪɹiˈɑːlɪs/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin irreālis (“intangible, immaterial”), from Latin in- (“un-: not”) + reālis (“real, material, composed of physical things”), from res (“thing”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”). Doublet of irreal.

  1. derived from in-
  2. learned borrowing from irreālis

Definitions

  1. Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is not a fact.

  2. An irrealis construct.

    • […] then it would make sense to view Australian past irrealises as TAM forms combining a modal stative predicate (conveying e.g. a capacity, expectation, or desire state) with a past imperfective content.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for irrealis. 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