Meanings
- Of, relating to, or exhibiting isomorphism.
As can be expected, the westernmost varieties of North Saami resemble Lule Saami—likewise increasingly affected by Scandinavian—whereas many vernaculars in Finland are largely isomorphous with Aanaar Saami, the most Finnicized of the Saami languages.
2022, Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte, Jussi Ylikoski, “North Saami”, in Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, editors, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 172
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving similar appearance but genetically different
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekῐ̓́σος (ĭ́sos)
- Englishiso-
- Ancient Greekμορφή (morphḗ)
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
- Englishisomorphous
Cite this entry
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