亚洲网紅露点

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polysynthetic

[ pol-ee-sin-thet-ik ]

adjective

  1. (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic ( def 3 ), synthetic ( def 3 ).
  2. of or relating to polysynthesism.


polysynthetic

/ 藢p蓲l瑟s瑟n藞胃蓻t瑟k; 藢p蓲l瑟藞s瑟n胃瑟s瑟s /

adjective

  1. denoting languages, such as Inuktitut, in which single words may express the meaning of whole phrases or clauses by virtue of multiple affixes Compare synthetic analytic agglutinative
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藢辫辞濒测蝉测苍藞迟丑别迟颈肠补濒濒测, adverb
  • polysynthesis, noun
  • 藢辫辞濒测藞蝉测苍迟丑别蝉颈蝉尘, noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of polysynthetic1

1795鈥1805; < Late Greek 辫辞濒测蝉媒苍迟丑别迟 ( os ) much compounded + -ic. See poly-, synthetic
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Example Sentences

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This quality, which linguists describe as 鈥減olysynthetic,鈥 means that many affixes may attach to a verb鈥攁nd with each additional affix another layer of story accrues.

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Kanyen鈥檏eha is a polysynthetic language, where a single word can function as an entire sentence.

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Additionally, many Indigenous languages are polysynthetic; they do not have fixed vocabularies but rely instead on the recombinations of small building blocks of words.

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Unrelated to any other language, its grammar is complex and its structure polysynthetic; a verb conveys not just action but a wealth of other information.

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When often repeated on the same plane, the twinning is said to be 鈥減olysynthetic,鈥 and gives rise to a laminated structure in the crystal.

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