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- not comparablegrammarof or pertaining to grammatical tense
In some participial constructions, however, an aorist participle can have either a tensal or aspectual meaning.
2007, Carlos Quiles, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, page 1602 more examples
Names which do not terminate in a vowel sound, require a vowel prefixed to the tensal inflection, rendering it obun, or ebun.
1834, Henry Schoolcraft, Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, page 193If this theory be correct, it shows that the nature of the Hebrew verb, which agrees with the Syriac and Arabic verb, is rather modal than tensal, and differs widely from that of the verb in the Greek, Latin, and modern languages of Europe.
1865, Francis Barham, “History of the Hebrew philology”, in The Fortnightly, volume 3, Review, page 571
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