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Trubetzkoyan

Trubetzkoyan adjective: of or relating to Nikolai Trubetzkoy (Russian: Никола́й Трубецко́й; 1890–1938), Russian linguist and historian, widely considered to be the founder of morphophonology.

Adjective

Trubetzkoyan (comparative more Trubetzkoyan, superlative most Trubetzkoyan)

  1. Of or relating to Nikolai Trubetzkoy (Russian: Никола́й Трубецко́й; 1890–1938), Russian linguist and historian, widely considered to be the founder of morphophonology.

Forms of Trubetzkoyan

comparativemore Trubetzkoyan
superlativemost Trubetzkoyan

Origin of Trubetzkoyan

From Trubetzkoy + -ian.

Questions about Trubetzkoyan

What does Trubetzkoyan mean?
Trubetzkoyan means of or relating to Nikolai Trubetzkoy (Russian: Никола́й Трубецко́й; 1890–1938), Russian linguist and historian, widely considered to be the founder of morphophonology.
What part of speech is Trubetzkoyan?
Trubetzkoyan is an adjective.

Words near Trubetzkoyan in the dictionary

  1. truantship
  2. truar
  3. truars
  4. Truax
  5. trub
  6. Trubetzkoyan
  7. trubs
  8. Trubshaw
  9. Truby
  10. Trubys
  11. Truc

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