sideform
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An alternative or variant form of a word or morpheme.
Example Sentences
- "The old þina, g. s. of þu, = of-thee, has such sideforms as the oldest Swedish sina, gen. sing, of the reflective pronoun, and as the M. Goth. seina, […]"
- "Whether sen, ten etc. are sometimes side-forms to se, te etc. after ne : nen, is a question that need not occupy us here."
- "The normal treatment of ṛ is threefold: a, i, and u, or the side[-]forms ra, ri, and ru."
- "This word is from ON sætr, 'mountain pasture', or its sideform setr, 'a seat, residence', and it was used both in personal and place-names, in the homeland as well as in some of the Western settlements."
- "Swedish, Danish and Norwegian om derives from Old Swedish, Old Danish and Old Norwegian um respectively, and ultimately from äm, æm, em, which most likely were sideforms of ef […]"
- "Two basic methods of paving are in use in South Africa, namely, sideform and slipform. With the sideform method, metal sideforms are used to confine the concrete to the desired width."