Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Forming beforehand; pursuing a course of preformation; containing the essential germs of later development.
- noun In philology, a formative letter or syllable at the beginning of a word; a prefix.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A formative letter at the beginning of a word.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
formative letter at the beginning of aword .
Etymologies
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pre- + formative
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Examples
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C. H. Gordon had raised the question whether the words kpt-r and ḥ-kpt may include some morphological elements, a preformative ḥ- and a sufformative -r, leaving kpt as the basic word Ugaritic Literature 1949, p.23 n.1, and relating this to Egyptian kft-yw.
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C. H. Gordon had raised the question whether the words kpt-r and ḥ-kpt may include some morphological elements, a preformative ḥ- and a sufformative -r, leaving kpt as the basic word Ugaritic Literature 1949, p.23 n.1, and relating this to Egyptian kft-yw.
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