nota augens

noun

An Old Irish pronominal clitic added to the end of an accentual unit containing a pronoun, now more commonly called emphatic suffixes.

OriginNew Latin nota augēns →
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Meanings

nounnota augens (plural notae augentes)

plural notae augentes

  1. Celtic linguisticsAn Old Irish pronominal clitic added to the end of an accentual unit containing a pronoun, now more commonly called emphatic suffixes.
  2. Celtic linguisticsA Welsh reduplicated or conjunctive pronoun (appearing in modern Welsh as minnau, tithau, yntau, hithau, ninnau, chwithau, and hwythau).

Origin

  1. New Latinnota augēns
  2. Englishnota augens

From New Latin nota augēns, from nota (“mark, sign; critical mark or remark; note”) + augēns (“increasing, augmenting”). Coined by Zeuss in his Grammatica Celtica.

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