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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. abessive, adj. and n. View full entry 1854
...Designating, being in, or relating to a case in certain Finno-Ugric languages, esp. Finnish, which expresses the absence of something....
3. abjad, n. View full entry 1793
...A system of notation in which each of the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet is assigned a numerical value. Now chiefly hist....
4. ablative, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar. Designating, being in, or relating to a case of nouns and pronouns, and of words in grammatical agreement with them, in Latin and certain other Indo-European languages, the central function...
5. ablaut, n. View full entry 1849
...The morphological variation of a root vowel in Germanic and other Indo-European languages; = gradation11....
6. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
7. absolutive, n. and adj. View full entry 1863
... The absolute form of a word (see absolute1)....
8. absorption, n. View full entry 1597
...The action or process of swallowing up or engulfing a material thing; an instance of this. Obs....
9. accent, n. View full entry OE
...Any of a set of marks originally used with a letter to indicate the nature and position of the spoken accent, later of stress, in a written word; (also) any of these...
10. accentology, n. View full entry 1881
...A system of accentuation or stress in speech; the study of accentuation....
11. accentuality, n. View full entry 1825
...In pl. Particulars or characteristics of accent or stress. rare....
12. accidence, n.2 View full entry c1434
...The branch of grammar which deals with the inflection of words, grammatical morphology; †an inflected form (obs.); (also) a book or treatise on the fundamentals of grammar (now hist....
13. accident, n. View full entry 1395
...Philos. In Aristotelian thought: a property or quality not essential to a substance or object; something that does not constitute an essential component, an attribute. Cf. substance4a....
14. † accidentiary, n. and adj. View full entry 1590
...A student of grammatical accidence....
15. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
16. † accurtation, n. View full entry ?c1570
...Shortening; curtailment, abbreviation; (Alchemy) a shortened method of preparation; a piece of writing explaining such a method. In later use Med.: shortening of a muscle, tendon, blood vessel,...
17. accusative, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
18. acoustic, adj. and n. View full entry 1635
...Designating the sense or the organs of hearing; of or relating to the sense of hearing; auditory....
19. acrolect, n. View full entry 1965
...In a post-creole community, the social dialect most closely resembling the standard language; (also more generally) the most prestigious dialect or variety of a particular language. Cf. basilect, mesolect...
20. acronym, n. View full entry 1940
...A group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for a name or expression, each letter or part being pronounced separately; an initialism (such as ATM, TLS)....
