What does heteroclitic mean?
Heteroclitic means (linguistics) Irregular in inflection..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(linguistics) Irregular in inflection..
The Proto-Indo-European term *wódr̥ (“water”) is typical of nouns with heteroclitic stems: the strong stem *wódr̥- occurs in the direct cases while the weak stem *wédn̥- is found instead in the oblique cases, hence the contrast between nominative *wódr̥ and genitive *wédn̥s.
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Heteroclitic means (linguistics) Irregular in inflection..
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The Proto-Indo-European term *wódr̥ (“water”) is typical of nouns with heteroclitic stems: the strong stem *wódr̥- occurs in the direct cases while the weak stem *wédn̥- is found instead in the oblique cases, hence the contrast between nominative *wódr̥ and genitive *wédn̥s.
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