acrostatic en · ADJ
Etymology
From acro- + static.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In Proto-Indo-European athematic nominals, having a specific pattern of ablaut in which the accent is placed on the root syllable in all cases.
The Proto-Indo-European word for ‘night’ was acrostatic: nominative singular *nókʷ-t-s, genitive *nékʷ-t-s.
Coordinates
amphikinetic · proterokinetic · hysterokinetic