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suffigal

suffigal adjective: synonym of suffixal.

Adjective

suffigal (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Synonym of suffixal.
    • The use of a suffigal pronoun to express the object of the emotion expressed by a noun […]2015, Jonathan Stökl, ““A Youth Without Blemish, Handsome, Proficient in all Wisdom, Knowledgeable and Intelligent”: Ezekiel’s Access to Babylonian Culture”, in Jonathan Stökl and Caroline...
    • The accentuation in the suffix of original iteratives in *CoC-éie/o- would accordingly be spread to the thematic denominative stems in *-e-ié/ó- on account on the identical suffigal vocalism.2019, Nils Oscar Paul Billing, Finite verb formation in Lycian, Universiteit Leiden, MA thesis, page 27
    Synonyms:
    suffixal

Synonyms of suffigal

Origin of suffigal

From the present stem of Latin suffīgō (“I fasten onto”) + -al. The formation on the Latin present stem is unusual; perhaps originally an innovation in German.

Questions about suffigal

What does suffigal mean?
Suffigal means synonym of suffixal.
What part of speech is suffigal?
Suffigal is an adjective.

Words near suffigal in the dictionary

  1. sufficingly
  2. sufficingness
  3. sufficive
  4. Suffield
  5. Suffield-cum-Everley
  6. suffigal
  7. suffigation
  8. suffioni
  9. suffisant
  10. suffix
  11. suffix tree

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