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Definition of Deverbal
1. Adjective. (context: grammar linguistics) Derived from a verb. Commonly used to describe nominalized verb forms in Navajo, as well as gerunds and adjectives in Russian. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deverbal
1. a word derived from a verb [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deverbal
Literary usage of Deverbal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Principles of the Structure of Language by James Byrne (1892)
"The deverbal a stems, in the strengthening of the ni vowel and in their meaning,
approach in some degree ... Time ova stems are all secondary, deverbal or ..."
2. Transactions by Cambridge Philological Society (1904)
"The decisive facts which prove the deverbal origin of the -ido- suffix are ...
These adjectives correspond in fact to the Greek deverbal adjectives in -a?, ..."
3. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"... -izar, the adjectival or substantival suffixes -azo, -izo, the deverbal -azon,
the substantival suffixes -ez, -eza, -ece, -ice, -icia, -icie. ..."
4. Russian Orthodox Church Of Alaska And The Aleutian Islands And Its Relation by Vyacheslav Ivanov (1998)
"... stressing the role of verbs and sometimes using deverbal nominalizations
instead of nouns as in the Old Aleut words studied by Veniaminov. ..."
5. An Arabic Manual by John Gulian Lansing (1886)
"Then by observing the different forms and rules given in the preceding section,
we find, in the same manner, that other deverbal nouns from this root must ..."
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