sufformative

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noun

In Biblical Hebrew, an inflectional ending or suffix.

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Meanings

nounsufformative (plural sufformatives)

plural sufformatives

  1. grammarIn Biblical Hebrew, an inflectional ending or suffix.

    This sufformative draws the accent to itself, causing reduction of the preceding vowel to šᵉwâ.

    2000, Edwin C. Hostetter, An Elementary Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, page 69
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