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monosyllabism
monosyllabism (mɒnəʊˈsɪləbɪz(ə)m) [Formed as monosyllabe + -ism. Cf. F. monosyllabisme.] Addiction to the use of monosyllables; the quality of being monosyllabic.1804 Mitford Inquiry 414 In the spirited and easy flow of that line thus, its monosyllabism is apt to escape the ear's notice. 1824 New Mo...
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Monosyllabic language
Monosyllabism is the name for the property of single-syllable word form. The natural complement of monosyllabism is polysyllabism.
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monosyllabicity
monosyllabicity (mɒnəʊsɪləˈbɪsɪtɪ) [f. monosyllable n. + -icity.] = monosyllabism. Also monosyllabiˈcation.1951 N. C. Bodman in Language XXVII. 205 There has been no change..in the monosyllabicity of the Chinese morpheme from the most ancient times that we know of to the present. 1956 J. Whatmough L...
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Scott DeLancey
consensus on Sino-Tibetan theory holds that the Sino-Tibetan language family descends from a single linguistic ancestor that accounts for shared features of monosyllabism
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polysemy
polysemy Linguistics. (ˈpɒlɪsiːmɪ) Also in mod.L. form polyˈsemia. [ad. F. polysémie (M. Bréal Essai de Sémantique (1897) xiv. 155), f. med.L. polysēmus (see polysemous a.): see -y3, -ia1.] The fact of having several meanings; the possession of multiple meanings.1900 N. Cust tr. Bréal's Semantics xi...
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Bucharest Yiddish Studio Theater
prominent Jewish intellectual and ethnologist, said that BITS "altered the Peretz's work into an orgy of orori osifere [roughly, 'graveyard horrors'] and monosyllabism
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Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese
DeFrancis suggests that Chao and Yang have been "unduly influenced by the ideographs and the myths of Chinese monosyllabism".
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drift
▪ I. drift, n. (drɪft) [Early ME. drift (not recorded in OE.) corresp. to OFris. drift (in ur-drift), MDu., Du. drift, MHG. trift, G. trift passage for cattle, drove, ON. drift snow-drift, (Sw., Da. drift); verbal abstract from dr{iacu}fan to drive.] I. The action of driving, etc. 1. a. The act of d...
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