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deinstrumental

deinstrumental adjective: derived from an instrumental case-form.

Adjective

deinstrumental (not comparable)

  1. Derived from an instrumental case-form.
    • Alternatively, one might regard colōnus as a deinstrumental noun in *-no- from an ins.sg. *kʷolh₁-oh₁ 'with cultivation', i.e. from an earlier action noun *kwólh₁-o- 'going round'.2008, Michiel De Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, volume 7), Brill, page 125
    • Recently Weiss (2009: 303–5) delineated in his Outline a clear sketch of the steps by which the Latin group in -et- originated by composition and analogy, and identified three subgroups (deverbal, denominal, deinstrumental) with different origins among the nouns in simple d.2016, Lothar Willms, “On the origin of Latin suffixes in -d- and -es, -itis”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 121, number 1, →DOI, page 93

Origin of deinstrumental

From de- + instrumental. Compare denominal, deverbal.

Questions about deinstrumental

What does deinstrumental mean?
Deinstrumental means derived from an instrumental case-form.
What part of speech is deinstrumental?
Deinstrumental is an adjective.

Words near deinstrumental in the dictionary

  1. deinstitutionalizations
  2. deinstitutionalize
  3. deinstitutionalized
  4. deinstitutionalizes
  5. deinstitutionalizing
  6. deinstrumental
  7. deinstrumentalization
  8. deinstrumentalize
  9. deinstrumentalized
  10. deinstrumentalizes
  11. deinstrumentalizing

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