univerbize
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from univerbation + -ize.
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]univerbize (third-person singular simple present univerbizes, present participle univerbizing, simple past and past participle univerbized)
- (linguistics, uncommon) To cause, or to undergo univerbation.
- Synonym: univerbate
- 1986, Piotr Ruszkiewicz, “One some recent claims concerning derivational morphology”, in Linguistics Across Historical and Geographical Boundaries. In Honour of Jacek Fisiak on the Occasion of His Fiftieth Birthday (Trends in Linguistics; 32), volumes 2. Descriptive, Contrastive and Applied Linguistics, Berlin: De Gruyter, page 1035 of 1025 seqq.:
- There are in fact fewer univerbized lexemes than the transformational analysis predicts.
- 1987, James Naughton, “II. Slovak Studies. Language”, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies[1], volume 49, page 904 of 901–909:
- K. Hegerová, KS, 21:102-08, reviews univerbizing, intellectualizing and colloquial trends in nouns for locations, e.g., chlebíčkáreň, inšpekčka.
Translations
[edit]univerbate — see univerbate