screeve

present singular third person screeves · participle present screeving · participle past screeved · past screeved

1. UKobsoleteslangTo write.
2. UKobsoleteslangTo draw with chalks on a pavement or sidewalk.
3. UKobsoleteslangTo write begging letters.

plural screeves

1. UKobsoleteslangA begging letter.

plural screeves

1. countableuncountablehuman sciencesIn the grammar of Georgian and related languages, a combination of tense, aspect and mood. Occasionally used for non-Kartvelian languages.

   This qualitative vowel gradation is not connected with screeve (unlike Georgian).

   1986, Chato Gudjedjiani, Mykolas L. Palmaitis, Upper Svan: Grammar and Texts, page 65

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   It has already been explained that the series in the Kartvelian languages are sets of tense–mood–aspect paradigms. These paradigms are traditionally referred to as screeves. In general, a screeve expresses one tense, one aspect, and one mood. For example, in Old Georgian the screeve that is called "aorist" expresses past time, indicative mood, and punctual aspect.

   1985, Alice C. Harris, Diachronic Syntax: The Kartvelian Case, →ISBN, page 95

   A final term must be introduced here, the screeve (coined by the Georgian linguist Aḳaḳi Šanije from the Georgian word mc̣ḳrivi 'row'). A screeve is what is traditionally called a tense, i.e., a set of six forms of a given verb differing only in person and number, as in Latin amo, amas, amat, amamaus, amatis, amant. But since the various "tenses" do not always have temporal meaning, but may have modal or aspectual meanings instead, we prefer the more unusual but less misleading term of screeve.

   1990 [1982], Howard I. Aronson, Georgian: A Reading Grammar, Corrected edition, →ISBN, page 41

   The shape of the two 3(pl) subject markers (-s and -en) varies depending on the screeve (screeve is a term coined by the Georgian grammarian Šanije; it refers to a set of paradigmatic verb forms, embracing temporal, modal, and/or aspectual distinctions—see Aronson 1990:41).

   1997, Stanford Carmack, “Blocking in Georgian Verb Morphology”, in Language, volume 73, number 2, page 316

   screeve A set of verb-forms in a language which differ in person and number but which are identical in tense, aspect, mood, and voice. An example is the present imperfect indicative active of Latin amāre 'love': amō 'I love', amās 'you love' (singular), amat 's/he loves', amāmus 'we love', amātis 'you love' (plural), amant 'they love'. Traditional grammarians often refer to such a set as a "tense", but this is a misuse of the term 'tense'.

   1997, R. L. Trask, A Student's Dictionary of Language and Linguistics, →ISBN, page 94

   The term screeve—borrowed from the Georgian linguistic tradition (cf. Aronson 1982)—is used to describe sets of related tense–aspect sets. As Brsk. indicative finite verb forms seem to fall into two basic sets of forms, the term seems appropriate in this context.

   2007, Gregory D. S. Anderson, “Burushaski Morphology”, in Alan S. Kaye, editor, Morphologies of Asia and Africa, volume 2, page 1247 n.5