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English
Etymology
From post- + medial.
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Adjective
postmedial
- (biology) Located behind (further towards the rear than) the middle.
1896, George Francis Hampson, Moths:Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow and white. Fore wing white, with the costal half to end of cell suffused with fuscous; an obscure fuscous triangular postmedial mark with its apex on inner margin, its inner limb with a black speck […]
- (linguistics) Located after the medial element.
1994, Studies in Native American Languages:[…] and PA *naːwal(a)w- and Y noːʔrep- 'following one behind the other' 055 (where PA adds postmedial *-(a)w, and Yurok the intransitive final -ep).
2004, Spoken Cree, →ISBN, page 225:The medial suffix, ...kon..., carries the meaning "day": e.g., n'ka-nîšokonin I'll be away two days (and nights). […] The suffix also occurs with a postmedial extension, ...ak: e.g., nîšokonakisiw niski-pîsim it is the second day of April […] literally, the goose moon is in a state (...si-) of day two.
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