Etymology

Gruppenflexion

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Today it means: The practice, for example in Tibetan and Tocharian, of inflecting noun phrases with case by only inflecting the last word of the noun phrase with said case. Full definition →

German Gruppenflexion
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  1. German · borrowed fromGruppenflexion“group inflection”
  2. English todayGruppenflexion

Borrowed from German Gruppenflexion (“group inflection”).

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