deplorative

Meanings

adjectivedeplorative (comparative more deplorative, superlative most deplorative)

adjectivedeplorative (comparative more deplorative, superlative most deplorative)

noundeplorative (plural deploratives)

human sciencesA word expressing negative emotion.
A characteristic feature of the Yenisei commemorative texts are deploratives, words expressing pain and regret, e.g. (e)s(i)z ‘sorry’, where the bracket vowels are not written according to the rules of the Orkhon runiform orthography.
2021, Johanson L., “Writing Systems”, in Turkic (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →DOI, pages 402-430

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