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Agglutinative   Listen
adjective
Agglutinative  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
Synonyms: polysynthetic, holophrastic.
2.
(Philol.) Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound. "In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds." "Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages." "Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Agglutinative" Quotes from Famous Books



... an infusion of Japanese words is found among some of the Coast tribes of Oregon and California, either pure or clipped, along with some very peculiar Japanese "idioms, constructions, honorific, separative, and agglutinative particles"; that shipwrecked Japanese are invariably enabled to communicate understandingly with the Coast Indians, although speaking quite a different language, and that many shipwrecked Japanese have informed him that they were enabled ...
— The First Landing on Wrangel Island - With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants • Irving C. Rosse



Words linked to "Agglutinative" :   agglutinate, adhesive, polysynthetic



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