oikoclitic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) + clitic.

Pronunciation

Adjective

oikoclitic (not comparable)

  1. (Romani linguistics) Having an inflection and stress pattern characteristic of pre-European vocabulary.
    Antonym: xenoclitic
    • 2006, Viktor Elšík, Yaron Matras, “Early Romani”, in Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology; 32), Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 72:
      In the oblique, the vowel of the oikoclitic singular masculine marker has been assimilated to the vowel of the Greek-derived nominative markers.
    • 2008, Bernard Comrie, “Inflectional morphology and language contact, with special reference to mixed languages”, in Monika Rothweiler, Juliane House, Peter Siemund, editors, Language Contact and Contact Languages (Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism), John Benjamins, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 20:
      Although there are some similarities between oikoclitic and xenoclitic classes - perhaps most noticeably the constant plural oblique -en (though with a variant -jen restricted to the oikoclitic classes), an inflection that is clearly indigenous - there are also striking differences.
    • 2017, Michael Beníšek, Eastern Uzh varieties of North Central Romani, Charles University, page 7:
      In the oikoclitic compartment, there are two distinct classes of vocalic and zero adjectives.
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