Linguistic dictionary

Adverb

Definition of Adverb Adverb (Lat. ad-verbum ‘belonging to the verb’) – grammatical category (part of speech) that serves to modify …

Ablaut definition Ablaut (also known as apophony, vowel gradation) – the change of a vowel into another vowel in the …

This list contains the most common abbreviations used in the Oxford English Dictionary. Click on a letter to see the …

Definition of Abbreviation Abbreviation – (Lat. brevis ‘short’) The everyday sense of this term has been refined in linguistics as part …