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screeves

screeves is the plural of screeve.

screeves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of screeve.

Meaning of screeve

Noun (1)

screeve (plural screeves)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A begging letter.

Noun (2)

screeve (countable and uncountable, plural screeves)

  1. In the grammar of Georgian and related languages, a combination of tense, aspect and mood. Occasionally used for non-Kartvelian languages.
    • It has already been explained that the series in the Kartvelian languages are sets of tense–mood–aspect paradigms. These paradigms are traditionally referred to as screeves. In general, a screeve expresses one tense, one aspect, and one mood. For example, in Old Georgian the screeve that is called...1985, Alice C. Harris, Diachronic Syntax: The Kartvelian Case, →ISBN, page 95

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Questions about screeves

What is screeves the plural of?
Screeves is the plural of screeve.

Words near screeves in the dictionary

  1. screes
  2. screeve
  3. screeved
  4. screever
  5. screevers
  6. screeves
  7. screeving
  8. screlt
  9. screlted
  10. screlting
  11. screlts

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