Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oceanicist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: oceani-cist
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A linguist who specialises in studying Oceanic languages.

Example Sentences

"Unergative verbs, called Actor subject verbs by Oceanicists, have an underived subject, that is one that is a subject at all levels of syntactic representation."

Etymology

From Oceanic + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Oceanic

Inflected Forms

Oceanicists (plural)

Questions

What does oceanicist mean?: A linguist who specialises in studying Oceanic languages.
Where does oceanicist come from?: From Oceanic + -ist.

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