Re: Looking for a new grammatical term

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:43:17PM +0200, Remi Villatel wrote:
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> Any way, I dived into my dictionary and I emerged with a new synonym of
> "inalienable possession" that suits well the shaquean culture: "property".
> Not "property" like in "Get out of my property!" but like in "The various
> properties of this material" i.e. the inherent qualities.
>
> Unfortunately, there is no adjective related to the noun "property" and I
> don't really like the neological adjective "propertive". Maybe I should use
> "propriety" --which is already a grammatical term according to my
> dictionary-- and the neological adjective "proprietive" or "propriative"? (I
> prefer the one with the "a".)
How about "attribute" and "attributive"?


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