Meanings
present singular third person univerbizes · participle present univerbizing · participle past univerbized · past univerbized
- uncommonhuman sciencesTo cause, or to undergo univerbation.
There are in fact fewer univerbized lexemes than the transformational analysis predicts.
1986, Piotr Ruszkiewicz, “One some recent claims concerning derivational morphology”, in Linguistics Across Historical and Geographical Boundaries. In Honour of Jacek Fisiak on the Occasion of His Fiftieth Birthday (Trends in Linguistics; 32), volumes 2. Descriptive, Contrastive and Applied Linguistics, Berlin: De Gruyter, page 1035 of 1025 seqq.1 more example
K. Hegerová, KS, 21:102-08, reviews univerbizing, intellectualizing and colloquial trends in nouns for locations, e.g., chlebíčkáreň, inšpekčka.
1987, James Naughton, “II. Slovak Studies. Language”, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, volume 49, page 904 of 901–909Synonyms: univerbate
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo cause, or to undergo univerbation.
Origin
Back-formation from univerbation + -ize.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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