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alliterational en · ADJ

Etymology

From alliteration + -al.

Meanings

1. Involving alliteration; alliterative.
   • Their language has two remarkable peculiarities which seem to separate it from other African tongues; viz., the system of prefixing to every noun a syllable without any separate meaning, and alliterational concord, which changes the initial sound of a secondary word into that of the priamary one. 1859, Charles Hamilton Smith, The natural history of the human species, page 46:
   • "In whose eyes I shall find grace" is furthermore a very important alliterational brush-stroke on this charming broad canvas. 1973, Israel Rosenberg, The world of words, page 85:
   • In the heroic lays, parallelisms of long lines predominate, strictly organized from the point of view of alliterational technique. 1998, Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinskiĭ, Kenneth H. Ober, The Elder Edda and early forms of the epic, page 230:

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