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thought-bearing

adj

Etymology

From thought + bearing.

  1. derived from *beraną✻ — “to bear; carry”
  2. inherited from *berandz✻
  3. inherited from berende — “bearing; fruitful”
  4. inherited from beringe
  5. formed as thought-bearing — “thought + bearing”

Definitions

  1. Having a semantic meaning, as opposed to a syntactic function.

    • They too are vitally related to the thought-bearing function of language.
    • Know which words in the phrase are the thought-bearing words. These are the important words, which help the audience to get the thought easily. They are generally the nouns and verbs, but not every noun and verb is stressed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for thought-bearing. 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