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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pertingent en · ADJ

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin pertingent.

Meanings

  1. Touching; having direct contact with.
    • The -C column applies to suffixes that consist of a lone consonant such as pertingent -t and locative -xʼ, but plural -xʼ is excluded due to morphosemantic cooccurrence constraints. 2024 January 22, James A. Crippen, Tlingitology Seminar Notes: Background and Morphology, University of British Columbia:

Forms

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most pertingent Degree=Sup lexicographic
more pertingent Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

juxtacrine