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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
genetive en · ADJ
Etymology
A variant of genitive; compare Latin genetīvus with genitīvus.
Meanings
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(alt-of, archaic, not-comparable) Archaic spelling of genitive.
[T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it Irios in the genetiue caſe.
1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called Meon or Mew”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 23, recto:
genetive en · NOUN
Etymology
A variant of genitive; compare Latin genetīvus with genitīvus.
Meanings
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(alt-of, archaic) Archaic spelling of genitive.
This older kind of genetive [i.e., the direct genetive] is apparently expressed only by the position of the two substantives, in which the governing word stands before the governed: pr:Z1-i-mn:n-A40 pr i̓mn "House of Amon."
1894, Adolf Erman, “Nouns”, in James Henry Breasted, transl., Egyptian Grammar […], London; Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, […], →OCLC, § 122*, page 49:
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