Meaning of deinstrumental | Babel Free

Definitions

Derived from an instrumental case-form.

not-comparable

Examples

“Alternatively, one might regard colōnus as a deinstrumental noun in *-no- from an ins.sg. *kʷolh₁-oh₁ 'with cultivation', i.e. from an earlier action noun *kwólh₁-o- 'going round'.”

“Recently Weiss (2009: 303–5) delineated in his Outline a clear sketch of the steps by which the Latin group in -et- originated by composition and analogy, and identified three subgroups (deverbal, denominal, deinstrumental) with different origins among the nouns in simple d.”

“A highly characteristic subtype of the general case just mentioned (athematic base plus complex thematic suffix) appears in so-called “deinstrumental” adjectival formations: thus astū ‘cleverly’ (u-stem instr. sg. *-u-h₁, i.e. ‘with cleverness’) → astūtus ‘clever’, similarly -ītus adjectives based on i-stem instr. sg. *-i-h₁ (aurītus ‘having ears’, cf. auris ‘ear’), -ōtus adjectives based on o-stem instr. sg. *-o-h₁ (aegrōtus ‘sick’, cf. aegrum ‘distress’); likewise, with instr. sg. plus *-no-, adjectival suffix conglomerates -īnus, -ūnus, -ōnus etc. (cf. Weiss 2011: 290, 293, and further 7.3.1.3 on futūrus).”

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