endopassive

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noun

A verb with the form of a passive voice construction, but indicating the state of, or an action toward something other than its subject.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounendopassive (plural endopassives)

plural endopassives

  1. raregrammarA verb with the form of a passive voice construction, but indicating the state of, or an action toward something other than its subject.

    Endopassives are: (a) introvert (not extrovert); (b) passive in the sense that the subject of the endopassive word was the object of the simplex [...] (c) unlike exopassives, the hypothetical subject of the simplex is grammatically and semantically not available

    2007, Axel Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 48
adjectiveendopassive (not comparable)
  1. not comparableraregrammarHaving passive form while predicating about something other than the subject of the passive voice construction.
  2. not comparableraregrammarBeing or relating to an endopassive.

    4.6 Voicing of the initial consonant: endopassive derivation

    2007, Axel Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 48

Origin

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