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peninitial

adj
/ˌpɛnɪˈnɪʃəl/

Etymology

Blend of penultimate + initial, treating pen- (from Latin paene (“almost”)) as a prefix.

  1. derived from paene — “almost”

Definitions

  1. Falling in the position after initial position

    Falling in the position after initial position; second.

    • In examples (81) and (82), the postpositive possessives do not occupy the peninitial position in the clause, nor the peninitial position of the NP.
    • Because the factors conditioning edge repulsion of the pitch peak are relatively weak at the left edge, it is not surprising that peninitial prominence is rare cross-linguistically.
    • I have empirically established that there were two canonical constructions available in IE languages: a head initial and a head peninitial one, the latter with the two mono- and polysydentic subtypes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for peninitial. 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