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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

intervary en · VERB

Etymology

From inter- + vary.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) To alter or vary between; to change between.
    • The /w/ in NWMek represents a weak variety of [w] pronounced with spread lips, freely intervarying with a true vowel [o]. 1998, Alan A. Jones, Towards a lexicogrammar of Mekeo: an Austronesian language of West Central Papua:
    • we may regard half the words of language as emphatic : since they are perpetually inter-varying by slight differences in force , and quantity 1827, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
intervaries Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
intervarying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
intervaried Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
intervaried Tense=Past lexicographic