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An alternative tangential, subordinate, or secondary variant form of a word or morpheme.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
From by- + form. Compare West Frisian byfoarm (“byform”), Dutch bijvorm (“byform”).
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
wisselvorm
— tangential or subordinate form
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Breton:
adstumm
— tangential or subordinate form
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Breton:
eilstumm
— tangential or subordinate form
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Czech:
druhotvar
— tangential or subordinate form
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Dutch:
bijvorm
— tangential or subordinate form
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Dutch:
nevenvorm
— tangential or subordinate form
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Finnish:
sivumuoto
— tangential or subordinate form
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French:
variante
— tangential or subordinate form
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German:
Nebenform
— tangential or subordinate form
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German:
Variante
— tangential or subordinate form
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Italian:
variante
— tangential or subordinate form
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Polish:
forma oboczna
— tangential or subordinate form
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Polish:
wariant
— tangential or subordinate form
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Portuguese:
variante
— tangential or subordinate form
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Spanish:
variante
— tangential or subordinate form
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Swedish:
sidoform
— tangential or subordinate form
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Welsh:
ffurf gyfochrog
— tangential or subordinate form