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Participial

noun

A non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses. Synonym: participle.

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... in the participial stems. It was changed to i in the present stems on account of a former -jan in the infinitive (bid-jan, etc.). See 61. To the same cause is due the doubling of consonants in the infinitive. All simple consonants in O.E., with the exception of r, were doubled after a ...

— Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book - with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary • C. Alphonso Smith

... is the original of the Syriac word for the Signs of the Zodiac malwashe (plural of malwasha). The Syrians added to it an m, thus giving it a participial form.] ...

— The Babylonian Legends of the Creation • British Museum

... by their forms all of the distinctions of mood and tense, person and number, found in the English, and form their participles, and are changed into verbal or participial nouns; and these modifications are for, the most part ...

— History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan • Andrew J. Blackbird

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