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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

ambiposition en · NOUN

Etymology

From ambi- + position.

Meanings

  1. An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
    • The ascribing of postpositions to Indo-European is not well founded. The elements concerned may have been ambipositions. 1981, Linguistic Typology, page 404:

Forms

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ambipositions Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

ambipositional

Hypernyms

adposition · word · part of speech

Hyponyms

preposition · postposition

Translations (2)

pl ambipozycja (adposition that can occur before or after its complement) · de Ambiposition (adposition that can occur before or after its complement)