oikoclitic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) +‎ clitic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɪkə(ʊ)klɪtɪk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɪkoʊklɪtɪk/

Adjective

oikoclitic (not comparable)

1. (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.