In linguistics, univerbation is the diachronic process of combining a fixed expression of several words into a new single word. The univerbating process...
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ancient walls of Rimini) in 1930s Fascist Italy. The film's title is a univerbation (words combined to form a single word) of the Romagnol phrase a m'arcôrd...
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as the album's second single on 28 November 2005. The song title is a univerbation of hoppa í polla (the -a in hoppa is not pronounced), which is Icelandic...
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nominal derivatives thereof, states Jamison, "preverbs show much clearer univerbation in Vedic, both by position and by accent, and by Classical Sanskrit,...
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italy portal Valledolmo (Sicilian: Vaḍḍilurmu; univerbation of vaḍḍi 'i l'urmu "Valley of the Elm") is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City...
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diphthongs merge into one new vowel or diphthong, making one word out of two (univerbation). Crasis occurs in many languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, and...
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1261, and Cirnizza in 1581). The name is derived from *Cerkvnica, a univerbation of *Cerkvna (vas) 'church village'. A church was established very early...
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Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein, South African placename Word formation Univerbation: a phrase becomes a word The word illustrates where compounds can be...
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lia̍p (廿) is the univerbation of lī-cha̍p (二十) as in Amoy [li²²⁻²¹ t͡sap̚⁴] and Quanzhou [li⁴¹⁻²² t͡sap̚²⁴] jia̍p (廿) is the univerbation of jī-cha̍p (二十)...
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phenomena that result in new morphemes via reanalysis, fusion, coalescence, univerbation etc.). In addition to traditional examples of grammaticalization (for...
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*kawssā, cāsa "house' < *kāssā, fūsus "poured, melted" < *χewssos. (2) univerbation: nisi (nisī) "unless" < the phrase *ne sei, quasi (quasī) "as if" < the...
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some other characters from Walt Disney's comic books. Ottoperotto – univerbation of otto per otto (Italian for '8×8') – is the Beagle Boys' pet dachshund...
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Juncture Mondegreen Scunthorpe problem Synalepha Synaeresis Syncope Univerbation See p. 146 in Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2003), Language Contact and Lexical...
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"Malamorenò" (a univerbation of ma l'amore no "but not love") is a single by Italian pop singer Arisa, released 17 February 2010 by label Warner Music...
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(German: Sela bei Rudnik). Based on medieval sources, the name Lavrica is a univerbation of *Lavričeva vas (literally, 'village belonging to Lavro/Laver'), thus...
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of Loška Dolina, Slovenia. Its name is coincidentally identical to a univerbation based on the Slovene word sneg 'snow', but is actually a Slovenized form...
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the local dialect, the settlement is known as Barounica. The name is a univerbation of *Borovna (vas/voda), literally 'pine village' or 'pine creek'. The...
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Slovene common noun grintavec 'snowy/rocky bare area', 'dolomite', a univerbation of the phrase grintav (svet) 'empty area, rough area'. Simonič also suggests...
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