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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

areoversal en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of area + universal with Latinizing -o-. Coined by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernd Kortmann (2009), apparently after earlier angloversal.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:especially dialectology and language typology, uncommon) A linguistic feature that is recurrent in language varieties in a certain geographical area.

Forms

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areoversals Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

varioversal · angloversal