Formans
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editFormans
- A small river in eastern France.
Translations
editGerman
editEtymology 1
editCoined by German linguist Karl Brugmann in 1904 from Latin elementum fōrmāns (“forming element”),[1] with fōrmāns being the present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). By surface analysis, formen + -ans. Doublet of Formant.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editFormans n (strong, genitive Formans, plural Formanzien or Formantia)
- (linguistic morphology) formative (language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function)
- Synonym: Formativ
- Antonym: Determinativ
Declension
editDeclension of Formans [neuter, strong]
Derived terms
editDescendants
editEtymology 2
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editder Formans m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Formans)
Further reading
edit- “Formans” in Duden online
- “Formans” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Formans” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
References
edit- ^ Brugmann, Karl (1904) Kurze vergleichende Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen[1] (in German), page 285: “Ein Name, der unmisverständlich auf alle Fälle passt, wo man bisher von Suffix sprach, und der zugleich auf alle Affixe, die Infixe, sowie auch auf die sogen. Wurzeldeterminative […] angewendet werden kann, ist das Formans (elementum formans).”
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- German terms suffixed with -ans
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- Rhymes:German/ɔʁmans
- Rhymes:German/ɔʁmans/2 syllables
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