formantia

See also: Formantia

English

Noun

formantia

1. plural of formans
   • 1961, Bernhard Karlgren, “The parts of speech and the Chinese language”, in Language and Society‎^[1], page 75:

     Such criteria are either sound variations in the words themselves, or the addition of formantia, i.e. suffixes or auxiliaries which define them as being true verbs (as opposed to nouns) or nouns (as opposed to verbs).

   • 1968, Karl H. Menges, The Turkic Languages and Peoples‎^[2], page 157:

     These facts then clearly evidence such elements as enclitical particles which exercise certain morphological and/or syntactical functions, but which have not yet developed into actual suffixes obliged to conform to sound-harmony and the general accentuation pattern. Some elements of this type are the formantia of the cas. compar. in -däg, and the cas. aequat. (prosecut., mensurat., terminat.) in -ča/-čä in the nominal category, and the formans of the negative aspect in -ma-/-mä- in the verbal category.

   • 2011, Hans Nugteren, Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages‎^[3], archived from the original on 2024-05-24, page 60:

     Superficially based on *temeen ‘camel’, but possibly rather connected to *tebene ‘pack needle’. The suffixes are formantia with unknown function.

Latin

Participle

fōrmantia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of fōrmāns