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alexical

alexical adjective: not lexical.

Adjective

alexical (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Not lexical.
    • In Wolfram hatte Hunger, we would not say that Wolfram is the possessor of the hunger. Hence, the descriptive content is close to nothing, and it is perhaps somewhat arbitrary whether one considers hab- to be alexical or lexical.2002, Werner Abraham, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart, Issues in formal German(ic) typology, page 157

Origin of alexical

From a- + lexical.

Questions about alexical

What does alexical mean?
Alexical means not lexical.
What part of speech is alexical?
Alexical is an adjective.

Words near alexical in the dictionary

  1. Alexian
  2. Alexians
  3. Alexiares
  4. alexias
  5. alexic
  6. alexical
  7. alexidine
  8. Alexie
  9. Alexies
  10. alexin
  11. alexine

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