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Translingual
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**
- (linguistics) When used before a term:
- (descriptive linguistics) Indicates that a term or phrase is more grammatically incorrect (or otherwise ill-formed) than another incorrect formation which has already been marked with *.
- Coordinate term: *
Compare the following sentences:- Eats like a pig.
- *Eats like pig.
- **Pig like eats.
- (historical linguistics) Indicates that the term has been invented for the sake of argument, and is not assumed to have been real.
- Coordinate term: *
Hebrew תָּמָר (tamár, “date”) must have been borrowed from Aramaic תְּמָרָא (təmārā, “date”), because the expected Hebrew cognate would have been שָׁמָר** (**shamár).
2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 261:The fact that -e only occurs in bètte and -i only in bítti (rather than **bétti or **bítte), makes it look like the paragogic vowel that regularly develops in Sardinian after word-final consonants.
- (programming) Exponentiation.
n**2 = n² = n × n
Usage notes
- (descriptive linguistics): Further asterisks may be added as required.