oikoclitic
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) + clitic.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔɪkə(ʊ)klɪtɪk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔɪkoʊklɪtɪk/
Adjective edit
oikoclitic (not comparable)
- (Romani linguistics) Having an inflection and stress pattern characteristic of pre-European vocabulary.
- Antonym: xenoclitic
- 2006, Viktor Elšík, Yaron Matras, “Early Romani”, in Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology; 32)[1], Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 72:
- In the oblique, the vowel of the oikoclitic singular masculine marker has been assimilated to the vowel of the Greek-derived nominative markers.
- 2008, Bernard Comrie, “Inflectional morphology and language contact, with special reference to mixed languages”, in Monika Rothweiler, Juliane House, Peter Siemund, editors, Language Contact and Contact Languages (Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism)[2], John Benjamins, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 20:
- Although there are some similarities between oikoclitic and xenoclitic classes - perhaps most noticeably the constant plural oblique -en (though with a variant -jen restricted to the oikoclitic classes), an inflection that is clearly indigenous - there are also striking differences.
- 2017, Michael Beníšek, Eastern Uzh varieties of North Central Romani, Charles University, page 7:
- In the oikoclitic compartment, there are two distinct classes of vocalic and zero adjectives.