Re: Question about a grammatical term

 --- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR
>
> > bahuvrihi compounds ( itself an example, meaning
> 'much
> > riced', cf greek 'polyphloisboio thalasse:s' &c )
> >
>
> Are those like English "four-legged"? (for "a
> four-legged creature": "a
> creature with four legs") They seem similar. I find
> those compounds a neat
> feature of English ;)) .
>
i think the original definition is a compound where
the first element is an adverb, usually of scale or
intensity, and the second is a noun. but that's almost
what's going on in the english . . .

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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