Meanings
- pluralrareplural of hapax legomenon
You are producing a lot of hapax legomenons here, but don't worry, it's perfectly legal. The vowel a often became o in front of a nasal in Old English, so on- is a common variant of an-.
2006 April 3, Alan Crozier, “Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey”, in soc.history.medieval (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Sep 20255 more examples
The only hapax legomenons of the poem occur in the first and the second lines, madárhiány ‘missing birds’ and nincs-világ ‘non-existing world’ are, in a grammatical sense, realizations of the concept of concentration.
1999, Susanna Fahlström, “The Rhetorical-Stylistic Structure”, in Form and Philosophy in Sándor Weöres’ Poetry (Studia Uralica Upsaliensia; 32), Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, →ISBN, →ISSN, chapter 2 (The Forms of Impersonality), section 2 (Metamorphosis: A benső végtelen ‘The Infinite Inside’), page 48And while many people, we are sure, often use the other two in their everyday speech, their non-dictionary status means they are what kind of words? a) Neologisms b) Homonyms c) Hapax legomenons d) None of the above
2011, E[lizabeth] Foley, B[eth] Coates, “Break Time”, in Homework for Grown-ups Quiz Book: Fiendishly Fun Questions to Test Your Old-school Knowledge, London: Square Peg, Random House, →ISBN, pages 185–186The subject of this paper covers the nonce words, in other words hapaxes (or hapax legomenons) encountered in Rylands manuscript. […] Key words: Rylands manuscript interlinear translation of Qoran into Turkic, hapax legomenons, […]
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2012 April 1, Aysu Ata, “Hapax in Rylands Manuscript Interlinear Translation of Qoran into Turkic”, in Türkoloji Dergisi [Journal of Turkology], volume 19, number 1 (overall work in Turkish), Ankara: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi [Ankara University Faculty of Language and History – Geography], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2024, pages 2–3Resisting and striving are both hapax legomenons. […] Hebrews has 124 instances of hapax legomenons, more than any other NT [New Testament] book based on the number of Greek words used.
2016 June 30, Graham Diggins, A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. […], [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, Hebrews 12:4 section and appendixKnowing what form to use when learning the representation of a word in an NLP pipeline can be a challenge for languages with rich inflectional morphology [6], where certain inflected forms may be so rare within available corpora that they manifest as hapax legomenons while their corresponding uninflected form might be quite common.
2018, Octavia-Maria Șulea, Liviu P. Dinu, Bogdan Dumitru, “Full Inflection Learning Using Deep Neural Networks”, in Alexander Gelbukh, editor, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 19th International Conference, CICLing 2018 […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 13396), part I, Cham: Springer, published 2023, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 408
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