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trochaick

trochaick is the obsolete form of trochaic.

Meaning of trochaic

Adjective

trochaic (not comparable)

  1. Composed of or relating to trochees, feet of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
    • Therefore, in precisely these languages a mechanism could be maintained which preserves the contrast between stressed and unstressed syllables in the trochaic word structure pattern (see 42.3.1) by weakening the onset of a longer or weightier unstressed syllable.2022, Marianne Bakró-Nagy, “Consonant gradation”, in Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, editors, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page...

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Forms of trochaick

pluraltrochaicks

Questions about trochaick

What is trochaick the obsolete form of?
Trochaick is the obsolete form of trochaic.

Words near trochaick in the dictionary

  1. troch-
  2. troch.
  3. trocha
  4. trochaic
  5. trochaical
  6. trochaick
  7. trochaicks
  8. trochaics
  9. trochaize
  10. trochaized
  11. trochaizes

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