Meanings
- not comparableRomani linguisticsHaving an inflection and stress pattern characteristic of European vocabulary.
The plural oblique of xenoclitic classes was not distinct from that of oikoclitic classes in ER.
2006, Viktor Elšík, Yaron Matras, “Early Romani”, in Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology; 32), Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 72–732 more examples
Although there are some similarities between oikoclitic and xenoclitic classes - perhaps most noticeably the constant plural oblique -en (though with a variant -jen restricted to the oikoclitic classes), an inflection that is clearly indigenous - there are also striking differences.
2008, Bernard Comrie, “Inflectional morphology and language contact, with special reference to mixed languages”, in Monika Rothweiler, Juliane House, Peter Siemund, editors, Language Contact and Contact Languages (Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism), John Benjamins, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 20Oikoclitic participles are based on the perfective stem of verbs, while xenoclitic participles are marked by a special participial suffix.
2017, Michael Beníšek, Eastern Uzh varieties of North Central Romani, Charles University, page 100Antonyms: oikoclitic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving an inflection and stress pattern characteristic of European vocabulary.
Origin
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