Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An adjective termination of Latin or Greek origin, very common in adjectives taken from Latin or Greek, as in public, metallic, etc., and also much used in modern formations, as artistic, electric, etc.
- noun In chem., a suffix denoting a higher state of oxidation than the termination -ous, as ferric hydrate, distinguished from
ferrous hydrate, phosphoric anhydrid, distinguished fromphosphorous anhydrid, etc.
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- noun informal A
Roman numeral representingninety-nine (99 ). - abbreviation in this case.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence
- adjective being nine more than ninety
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Examples
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And ic nelle þ̵ eni {} man enig {} þing þer {} on theo · butan hi ⁊ heara wicneras · þe hi hit bitechan · willað · ne frencisce ne englisce · for þan þi {n} gan þe ich habbe criste þas gerichtan forgifan minre Saule to ech {er} e alisendnesse ⁊ ic {15} nelle geþauian þ̵ enig {} man þis abrece bi minan fullen frenscipan.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Peter: "How would you explain the diphtong-less forms in Germanic?"
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Whitney Edward Reed was born in Glens Falls, N.Y. He received a bachelor's and a master's degree in Germanic languages from Boston University, in 1950 and 1952, respectively.
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I would agree with PhoeniX - if "hand" were to be a early Latin loan in Germanic, I would expect to see many more Latin loans in Proto-Germanic.
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It's just, if such a core word was loaned into the Germanic languages, I would prefer to see a lot more extensive loaning from Latin in Germanic at such an early stage.
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Given the imperative of the blood-feud in Germanic society, one insult or injury real or imagined could have initiated a cycle of vengeance that could have taken years to break.
Cearl, King of the Mercians Carla 2009
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The famous examples are the Ulfbehrt Viking swords, but there's also a delightful example from Lincoln of a comb case with an inscription in Norse runes that translates approximately as "Thorfast Makes a Good Comb" - all that's missing is his website address and orderline phone number :- That may indicate that craftsmen had a higher status in Germanic society than Roman society.
A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009
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Loup de Fages describes it as `a massive building, white and cold, in Germanic style, isolated in the woods at the edge of a lake which even to this day has retained a beauty that is wholly wild'.
Edith Södergran: a biographical profile - 3 David McDuff 2009
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PhoeniX: "It's just, if such a core word was loaned into the Germanic languages, I would prefer to see a lot more extensive loaning from Latin in Germanic at such an early stage."
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Regarding the above example, we have no way of knowing whether or not Grimm's law was preceded in Germanic by a brief period of pharyngealization that ended before it could affect any other sound changes.
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