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Wellentheorie

Wellentheorie proper noun: synonym of wave model (“a model of language change in which an innovation gradually spreads outward from its region of origin”).

Proper noun

the Wellentheorie

  1. Synonym of wave model (“a model of language change in which an innovation gradually spreads outward from its region of origin”).
    Synonyms:
    wave model

Synonyms of Wellentheorie

Origin of Wellentheorie

Unadapted borrowing from German Wellentheorie.

Questions about Wellentheorie

What does Wellentheorie mean?
Wellentheorie means synonym of wave model (“a model of language change in which an innovation gradually spreads outward from its region of origin”).
What part of speech is Wellentheorie?
Wellentheorie is a proper noun.

Words near Wellentheorie in the dictionary

  1. Welldons
  2. welled
  3. welled up
  4. Wellens' sign
  5. Wellens' syndrome
  6. Wellentheorie
  7. weller
  8. Wellerian
  9. wellerism
  10. wellerisms
  11. Welles

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