but if drinking is a gerundial noun modifying water and without drinking water is equivalent to without water for drinking, there will be stronger stress on drinking than on water.

In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for " beginning ", or " first " ( in a series ), reflecting its Greek roots.

The noun " purgatorium " ( Latin: place of cleansing ) is used for the first time to describe a state of painful purification of the saved after life.

In noun form, it generally means U. S. citizen or national ( see Names for U. S. citizens ).

This case is also used for nouns in several other senses, e. g., where the action occurs " because of " or " without " a certain noun ; nouns indicating distance or direction.

" If this is not an error for " ANaesthetic ", then it needs to be added as a noun sense to Wikipedia / Wiktionary?

" An abstraction " is the product of this process – a concept that acts as a super-categorical noun for all subordinate concepts, and connects any related concepts as a group, field, or category.

Ogden's word lists include only word roots, which in practice are extended with the defined set of affixes and the full set of forms allowed for any available word ( noun, pronoun, or the limited set of verbs ).

# Make combined words ( compounds ) from two nouns ( for example " milkman ") or a noun and a directive ( sundown ).

For example, in this grammar, some special words are for teaching languages, and not part of Basic English: plural, conjugate, noun, adjective, adverb, qualifier, operator, pronoun, and directive.

For example, in both languages, the standard morphological mechanism for achieving the morphosyntactic copula is to simply execute the noun prefix syllable as breathy voiced ( or ' depressed ').

The word copula derives from the Latin noun for a link or tie that connects two different things.

In highly synthetic languages, copulas are often suffixes, attached to a noun, that may still behave otherwise like ordinary verbs, for example-u-in Inuit languages.

The word agni is Sanskrit for fire ( noun ), cognate with Latin ignis ( the root of English ignite ), Russian огонь ( fire ), pronounced agon.

In his work, Meinhof looked at noun classes with all Bantu languages having at least 10 classes and with 22 classes of nouns existing throughout the Bantu languages, though his definition of noun class differs slightly from the accepted one, considering the plural form of a word as belonging to a different class from the singular form ( thus leading, for example, to consider a language like French as having four classes instead of two ).

All Bantu languages have a noun class specifically for humans ( sometimes including other animate beings ).

* Some nouns take-ice while matching verbs take-ise – for example, practice is a noun and practise is a verb ; in addition, licence is a noun and license is a verb.

In Russian and Swiss German, for example, the verb " to call ( by telephone )" is always followed by a noun in the dative.

Student reliance on BlitzMail ( known colloquially as " Blitz ," which functions as both noun and verb ) is reflected by the presence of about 100 public computer terminals intended specifically for BlitzMail use.

* Using an adjective to refer to an element of a person, rather than using a noun to define them, for example, "... makes her look slutty " instead of "... is a slut "

Eucharist: the Greek noun εὐχαριστία ( eucharistia ), meaning " thanksgiving ", is not used in the New Testament as a name for the rite ; however, the related verb is found in New Testament texts concerning the Last Supper, including the earliest:

Parts of speech are immediately obvious, for example: Τhe suffix-o indicates a noun ,-a an adjective ,-as a present-tense verb, and so on for other grammatical functions.

In Spanish, americano denotes geographic and cultural origin in the New World, as well as infrequently a U. S. citizen ; the adjective and noun, denoting estadounidense ( United States person ), derives from Estados Unidos de América ( United States of America ).

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

Still others maintain though " mind " is a noun, it is not necessarily the " name of a thing " distinct within the whole person.

In some other languages, such as Beja and Ket, the copula takes the form of suffixes that attach to a noun but are distinct from the person agreement markers used on predicative verbs.

A class usually represents a noun, such as a person, place or thing, or something nominalized.

Sahaptin has an ergative noun case ( with suffix-nɨm ) that is limited to transitive constructions only when the direct object is 1st or 2nd person: iwapáatayaaš łmámanɨm ‘ the old woman helped me ’; paanáy iwapáataya łmáma ‘ the old woman helped him / her ’ ( direct ); páwapaataya łmámayin ‘ the old woman helped him / her ’ ( inverse ).

Often, the word is used as a noun to describe a natively French-speaking person.

The hippie movement in the 1970s saw a new definition develop, with the use of fart as a personal noun, to describe a ' detestable person, or someone of small stature or limited mental capacity ', gaining wider and more open usage as a result.

John Lindow states that most details about Hel, as a figure, are not found outside of Snorri's writing in Gylfaginning, and says that when older skaldic poetry " says that people are ' in ' rather than ' with ' Hel, we are clearly dealing with a place rather than a person, and this is assumed to be the older conception ," that the noun and place Hel likely originally simply meant " grave ," and that " the personification came later.

Snorri ’ s own usage, however, seems to fit the looser sense: “ Snorri uses the term " kenning " to refer to a structural device, whereby a person or object is indicated by a periphrastic description containing two or more terms ( which can be a noun with one or more dependent genitives or a compound noun or a combination of these two structures )” ( Faulkes ( 1998 a ), p. xxxiv ).

Modern English expresses noun classes through the third person singular personal pronouns he ( male person ), she ( female person ), and it ( object, abstraction, or animal ), and their other inflected forms.

A few nouns also exhibit vestigial noun classes, such as stewardess, where the suffix-ess added to steward denotes a female person.

The term existed shortly before it became the name of a religious movement, and thus occasionally it is used as a common noun and would describe any Christology ( i. e. understanding of Jesus Christ ) that denies the Trinity or believes that God is only one person.

The vocative case ( abbreviated ) is the case used for a noun identifying the person ( animal, object, etc.

A noun derived from this is Verfemter " outlaw, ostracised person ".

A noun is a part of speech typically denoting a person, thing, place or idea.

In modern usage, the first letter of the first part of the name, the genus, is always capitalized in writing, while that of the second part is not, even when derived from a proper noun such as the name of a person or place.

If the second part of the name is derived from a proper noun, e. g. the name of a person or place, a capital letter was used.

# Pronoun: a part of speech substitutable for a noun and marked for a person

For such nouns, there will very often be one noun of each gender, with the choice of noun being determined by the natural gender of the person described ; for example, a male singer is a chanteur, while a female singer is a chanteuse.