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Definition of heteroclitic

  • In linguistics, particularly Indo-European Studies, signifying a stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case. Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include '''*wod-r/n-''"water" and '''*yékw-r/n-''"liver" . In Proto-Indo-European, heteroclitic stems tend to be noun stems with grammatically inanimate gender
  • A #English|heteroclitic noun

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