deinstrumental
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Derived from an instrumental case-form.
Example Sentences
- "Alternatively, one might regard colōnus as a deinstrumental noun in *-no- from an ins.sg. *kʷolh₁-oh₁ 'with cultivation', i.e. from an earlier action noun *kwólh₁-o- 'going round'."
- "Recently Weiss (2009: 303–5) delineated in his Outline a clear sketch of the steps by which the Latin group in -et- originated by composition and analogy, and identified three subgroups (deverbal, denominal, deinstrumental) with different origins among the nouns in simple d."
- "A highly characteristic subtype of the general case just mentioned (athematic base plus complex thematic suffix) appears in so-called “deinstrumental” adjectival formations: thus astū ‘cleverly’ (u-stem instr. sg. *-u-h₁, i.e. ‘with cleverness’) → astūtus ‘clever’, similarly -ītus adjectives based on i-stem instr. sg. *-i-h₁ (aurītus ‘having ears’, cf. auris ‘ear’), -ōtus adjectives based on o-stem instr. sg. *-o-h₁ (aegrōtus ‘sick’, cf. aegrum ‘distress’); likewise, with instr. sg. plus *-no-, adjectival suffix conglomerates -īnus, -ūnus, -ōnus etc. (cf. Weiss 2011: 290, 293, and further 7.3.1.3 on futūrus)."