• Agent noun (redirect from Nomen agentis)
    In linguistics, an agent noun (in Latin, nomen agentis) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action, and that identifies an entity...
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  • (lit. "hawthorn"), vampirdzhiya ("vampire" + nomen agentis suffix), vampirar ("vampire" + nomen agentis suffix), dzhadadzhiya and svetocher are used to...
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    dating from 900 to 1000 AD. Bellerophon riding Pegasus (1914) The nomen agentis is also attested in the compound Ἀργειφόντης Argeïphontes, an epithet...
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    third-person suffix -r can serve as a nominalizing suffix and indicate nomen agentis or just members of a class. The inanimate third-person singular suffix...
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    Serenus and, referred to lightning, Fulgur, Fulgur Fulmen, later as nomen agentis Fulgurator, Fulminator: the high antiquity of the cult is testified...
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    from Proto-Indo-European Dyḗws (literally “the bright one”), root nomen agentis from Dyew- (“to be bright, day sky”), and Ph₂tḗr (“father”). A syncretic...
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    derived from a stem *twer/*tur 'to have', while *dho would indicate a nomen agentis suffix. In this view Zbelthiurdos would mean 'he who has the lightning'...
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  • generating things (the etymological meaning of "spirit", "god", or nomen agentis, virtus, energeia), was first recorded during the Shang dynasty (ca...
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    Serenus and, referring to lightning, Fulgur, Fulgur Fulmen, later (as nomen agentis) Fulgurator, Fulminator. The high antiquity of the cult is testified...
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  • possibility of *en-dhigh-et- grade 0 as in figulus (from IE stem DHEIG) as a nomen agentis meaning 'forming, shaping, generating from within', close to impelling...
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  • futūtiō, 'act of intercourse', also exists in Classical Latin, and the nomen agentis futūtor, which corresponds to the English epithet "fucker", but lacking...
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    'prognosticator, informer' (From Middle Persian gōšak with -ak as a suffix of nomen agentis) Jāsūs (جاسوس)[citation needed] Spy A-sar; A- (negation prefix) + sar...
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    Harja-, and it is part of the place name Häringe. The name Leugaz is a nomen agentis of the same word as the Gothic liugan ("swear an oath") and means "oath...
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    believes that he has found evidence of grammatical gender for nouns and nomen agentis, as well as vocabulary and noun and verb endings that to him indicate...
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  • with -tur- [cp. IdG. -tōr nomen agentis; the Indo-Germanic causative also appears as if it were derived from a nomina agentis of the φορός type], the nomina...
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    nutrition", and "doule" from Proto-Indo-European *dhe- 'to place', plus nomen agentis suffix -lo. Bulgarian linguist Vladimir I. Georgiev proposed that Iambadoules...
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