nunate
English edit
Etymology edit
nun + -ate; compare nunation.
Verb edit
nunate (third-person singular simple present nunates, present participle nunating, simple past and past participle nunated)
- (grammar, transitive) To add nunation to (a word).
- 1995, Kees Versteegh, C. H. M. Versteegh, The Explanation of Linguistic Causes: Az-Za?????'s Theory of Grammar : Introduction, Translation, Commentary, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 169:
- You can only nunate the name in the case of the nominative and the genitive, […]