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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

tensal en · ADJ

Etymology

From tense + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) of or pertaining to grammatical tense
    • Names which do not terminate in a vowel sound, require a vowel prefixed to the tensal inflection, rendering it obun, or ebun. 1834, Henry Schoolcraft, Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, page 193:
    • In some participial constructions, however, an aorist participle can have either a tensal or aspectual meaning. 2007, Carlos Quiles, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, page 160:
    • If this theory be correct, it shows that the nature of the Hebrew verb, which agrees with the Syriac and Arabic verb, is rather modal than tensal, and differs widely from that of the verb in the Greek, Latin, and modern languages of Europe. 1865, Francis Barham, “History of the Hebrew philology”, in The Fortnightly, volume 3, Review, page 571: