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postformative en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From post- (prefix meaning ‘after’) + formative, modelled after preformative.

Meanings

  1. (in Afroasiatic words, not-comparable) Forming or affecting something that comes before.
    • The phenomenon of Berber verbs which are marked for person with both a preformative and a postformative affix […] finds a formally exact pendant in Canaanite, where there is one occurrence of the phenomenon in the Bible (Is 63:3 [אגאלתי]), but c. 20 occurrences in the Amarna tablets. 1981, Otto Rössler, “The Structure and Inflexion of the Verb in the Semito-Hamitic Languages: Preliminary Studies for a Comparative Semito-Hamitic Grammar”, in Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns, Amsterdam · Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 748:
  2. (not-comparable) Occurring after the formation (chiefly written post-formative, said in Islamic studies of the period following the Golden Age of Islam 786–861 CE).
    • It seems that Western observers of the Near East—and, in addition, a large percentage of the intellectuals of the Islamic world—can hardly imagine a society in which a struggle for truth does not continuously rage. But such a society seems to have been the case in large parts of the Islamic world of the postformative era. […] 2021, Thomas Bauer, translated by Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Tricia Tunstall, A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 259, occurring twenty times in this book:

Relateds

preformative · postformation

Translations (3)

it postformativo (attached to the end of a word as a formative element) · de postformativ (attached to the end of a word as a formative element) · fi postformatiivinen (attached to the end of a word as a formative element)

postformative en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From post- (prefix meaning ‘after’) + formative, modelled after preformative.

Meanings

  1. (in Afroasiatic words) A formative element at the end.

Forms

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Translations (1)

de Postformativ (formative at the end)