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English
Etymology
nona- + syllabic
Adjective
nonasyllabic (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Having nine syllables.
2004, A. Teeuw, A merry senhor in the Malay world: four texts of the Syair Sinyor Kosta:Most of the trisyllabic words in nonasyllabic lines are monomorphemic.
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