Most adverbs are derived from an adjective by adding the suffix-ment to its feminine form (- ment is analogous to the English suffix-ly ), though some adverbs are derived irregularly, and many do not derive from adjectives at all.

Most of the positions are named roughly according to a system of polar coordinates-one word ( leg, cover, mid-wicket ) specifies the angle from the batsman, and is optionally preceded by an adjective describing the distance from the batsman ( silly, short, deep or long ).

Most pre-modern settlement names contain a generic element describing the place's function ( e. g. ' farm ', ' market ', ' fort ') or a prominent natural feature, or both ; if only one of these is present, it is often modified by a personal name or an adjective.

Most of adjective consist of a stem and the ending-a, like bhoca (" large ") or laca (" high ").

Most of them are compound adjectives in dative, instrumental or other grammatical case and derived from the iterative or frequentative verbal form or the ability adjective form ( like-able ).

As Reverend is traditionally an adjective it is still often considered grammatically incorrect to form the plural Reverends.

The term was initially used generally as an adjective for animals that could live on land or in water, including seals and otters.

The word may be a compound containing the Old English adjective brytten ( from the verb breotan meaning ' to break ' or ' to disperse '), an element also found in the terms bryten rice (' kingdom '), bryten-grund (' the wide expanse of the earth ') and bryten cyning (' king whose authority was widely extended ').

In Greek, the adjective kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón means " belonging, or pertaining, to a Kýrios " (" Lord "), and the usage was adopted by early Christians of the Eastern Mediterranean with regard to anything pertaining to the Lord Jesus Christ: hence " Kyriakós oíkos " (" house of the Lord ", church ), " Kyriakē " (" day of the Lord ", i. e. Sunday ), or " Kyriakē proseukhē " ( the " Lord's prayer ").

It was not until the late 16th century that the two words came to have the same basic meaning as a related adjective and noun.

For over two thousand years, the adjective " Euclidean " was unnecessary because no other sort of geometry had been conceived.

Essential tremor was also previously known as " benign essential tremor ", but the adjective " benign " has been removed in recognition of the sometimes disabling nature of the disorder.

The French name Îles Malouines was given to the islands – malouin being the adjective for the Breton port of Saint-Malo.

The adjective feudal was coined in the 17th century, and the noun feudalism, often used in a political and propaganda context, was not coined until the 19th century.

( The adjective genetic, derived from the Greek word genesis — γένεσις, " origin ", predates the noun and was first used in a biological sense in 1860.

The adjective derived from this noun, * þiudiskaz, " popular ", was later used with reference to the language of the people in contrast to the Latin language ( earliest recorded example 786 ).

Plato, uses the plural adjective γνωστικοί – gnostikoi and the singular feminine adjective γνωστικὴ ἐπιστήμη – gnostike episteme in his Politikos where Gnostike episteme was also used to indicate one's aptitude.

The spread of the feast, by now with the adjective " Immaculate " attached to its title, met opposition on the part of some, on the grounds that sanctification was possible only after conception.

For example, the compound adjective, omnipotens, " all-powerful ," was produced from the adjectives omnis, " all ", and potens, " powerful ", by dropping the final s of omnis and concatenating.

In 1890, the term was used in a medical dictionary as an adjective to describe tribadism ( as " Lesbian love "): sexual gratification of two women by simulating intercourse.

It is unlikely that the Germans named the lake so for being shallow since the adjective is a Greek loanword that was borrowed via French and entered the general German vocabulary in the 17th century.

Zygmunt Gloger in his work Historical geography of land of ancient Poland ( Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski ) states that according to a Polish custom, whenever a new village was formed next to an older one, the name of the new entity was presented with an adjective little ( or lesser ), while the old village was described as greater.

Merriam-Webster notes, " Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective .... however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century.

Names of many institutions ( including the army ) were stripped of the " royal " adjective and the Raj Parishad ( a council of the King's advisers ) was abolished, with his duties assigned to the Parliament itself.

* Whether utility or marginalism was more essential to this revolution ( whether the noun or the adjective in the phrase " marginal utility " is more important )

" Single grain " does not mean that only a single type of grain was used to produce the whisky — rather, the adjective " single " refers only to the use of a single distillery ( and making a " single grain " requires using a mixture of grains, as barley is a type of grain and some malted barley must be used in all Scotch whisky ).

It was first spelled in a hyphenated form as an adjective ( thermo-dynamic ) and from 1854 to 1868 as the noun thermo-dynamics to represent the science of generalized heat engines.

The adjective variant of the term front line is used to describe materiel or personnel intended for forward use-at sea, on land or in the air-i. e.

Sometimes when elohim occurs as the referent or object ( i. e. not subject ) of a sentence, and without any accompanying verb or adjective to indicate plurality, it may be grammatically unclear whether gods plural or God singular is intended.

The adjective " Mosaic " meaning " of Moses " is also found in the description " Mosaic Law " in which case only the actual law, not the five books is intended.

The-ly suffix on an adverb allows readers to understand its lexical category ( if not in the technical sense, then at least in the sense of the intended meaning ), showing that it is intended to modify the adjective that it precedes and so not requiring hyphenation.

From the 19th century, the settlement grew to be an important coal mining center, and its name was supplemented by the adjective Górnicza ( which refers to mining ) in 1919, to distinguish it from such towns, as Dąbrowa Tarnowska and Dąbrowa Białostocka.

Rōmānus is the established adjective used to distinguish the Romans, as in cīvis Rōmānus, " Roman citizen ".

The term has been adopted as an adjective to distinguish office appliances ( such as photocopiers and printers ) which can be fitted on top of a desk, from larger equipment covering its own area on the floor.

The original name received an adjective meaning " great / big / major " in the languages of the Banat ( or Велики, Danube Swabian: Groß,, ), to distinguish it from a village of the same name in the Romanian Banat, that is usually referred to as small Bečkerek ( cf.

note: To distinguish between the nationality and the ethnicity, some sources ( such as CIA factbook ) use the adjective Tajikistani for the citizens of Tajikistan.

The adjective " British " was added to the name to distinguish it from Colombia and from what became the state of Washington in the United States, whose name was originally going to be Columbia, after the river.

The adjective " former " is used to distinguish it from the " Later Qin " state ( 384-417 ).

To distinguish between the two, the adjective “ Lubelskie ” was added to the name of the town of Opole located near Lublin.

Later on, the adjective Dolny ( Lower ) was added, to distinguish the town from the jewish town Kazimierz-now a district of Krakow.

Because of this, their short name became simply the " Partisans " ( capitalized ), and stuck henceforward ( the adjective " Yugoslav " is used sometimes in exclusively non-Yugoslav sources to distinguish them from other partisan movements ).

The adjective Greater is added these days to distinguish the historical region from the Khorasan province of Iran, which roughly encompasses the western half of the historical Khorasan.

In odd-man line formations, the adjective " nose " can be reserved to distinguish cases wherein the middle lineman is directly opposite the snapper from those where the middle defensive line player is offset, and " middle " is superfluous if the existence of the odd number of linemen has already been conveyed.

A first name may be modified by an adjective to distinguish its bearer from other people with the same name.

Interactive EasyFlow-so named to distinguish it from the preceding products-was offered from 1985 until the early 1990s, when the company dropped the " Interactive " adjective in favour of simply " HavenTree EasyFlow ".