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Word: Ergative
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
1950s: from Greek ergatēs ‘worker’ (from ergon ‘work’) + -ive
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈəːɡətɪv
Dialects: British English
Definition:
relating to or denoting a case of nouns (in some languages, e.g. Basque and Inuktitut) that identifies the doer of an action as the object rather than the subject of a verb.
Short Definition:relating to grammatical case
Word: Ergative
Speech Type: Noun
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈəːɡətɪv
Dialects: British English
Definition:
an ergative word.
Short Definition:word
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