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formans

formans noun: synonym of formative (“language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”).

Noun

formans (plural formantia)

  1. Synonym of formative (“language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”).
    • These facts then clearly evidence such elements as enclitical particles which exercise certain morphological and/or syntactical functions, but which have not yet developed into actual suffixes obliged to conform to sound-harmony and the general accentuation pattern. Some elements of this type are...1968, Karl H. Menges, The Turkic Languages and Peoples, page 157
    • In Cowgill’s […] convincing opinion the basic formans of this PIE mediopassive was an -o(-) originally added to endings identical with those of the perfect (minus -e where applicable;[…]), which only had a single set of endings undifferentiated as to active/middle in PIE.2006, Kim McCone, The Origins and Development of the Insular Celtic Verbal Complex, page 136
    Synonyms:
    formative

Proper noun capitalized: Formans

Formans

  1. A small river in eastern France.

Synonyms of formans

Forms of formans

pluralformantia

Origin of formans

Borrowed from German Formans, from Latin elementum fōrmāns (“forming element”), with fōrmāns being the present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). Doublet of formant.

From French Formans.

Questions about formans

What does formans mean?
Formans means synonym of formative (“language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”).
What part of speech is formans?
Formans can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of formans?
The plural of formans is formantia.

Words near formans in the dictionary

  1. Formanek
  2. Formaneks
  3. formanilide
  4. Formanite
  5. Formanites
  6. formans
  7. formant
  8. formantia
  9. formants
  10. Formartine
  11. formas

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