Formans

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See also: formans, förmans, förmäns, and förmåns

English

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Etymology

From French Formans.

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Proper noun

Formans

  1. A small river in eastern France.

Translations

German

Etymology 1

Coined by German linguist Karl Brugmann in 1904 from Latin elementum fōrmāns (“forming element”),[1] with fōrmāns being the present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). By surface analysis, formen +‎ -ans. Doublet of Formant.

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Noun

Formans n (strong, genitive Formans, plural Formanzien or Formantia)

  1. (linguistic morphology) formative (language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function)
    Synonym: Formativ
    Antonym: Determinativ
Declension
Declension of Formans
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Formans die Formanzien, Formantia
genitive eines des Formans der Formanzien, Formantia
dative einem dem Formans den Formanzien, Formantia
accusative ein das Formans die Formanzien, Formantia
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → English: formans
  • → French: formans
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Etymology 2

From French Formans.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

der Formans m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Formans)

  1. Formans (a small river in eastern France)

Further reading

  • “Formans” in Duden online
  • “Formans” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Formans” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

References

  1. ^ Brugmann, Karl (1904) Kurze vergleichende Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen‎ (in German), page 285: “Ein Name, der unmisverständlich auf alle Fälle passt, wo man bisher von Suffix sprach, und der zugleich auf alle Affixe, die Infixe, sowie auch auf die sogen. Wurzeldeterminative […] angewendet werden kann, ist das Formans (elementum formans).”
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