Alliterational

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Involving alliteration; alliterative.

    "Their language has two remarkable peculiarities which seem to separate it from other African tongues; viz., the system of prefixing to every noun a syllable without any separate meaning, and alliterational concord, which changes the initial sound of a secondary word into that of the priamary one."

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alliterative

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"Their language has two remarkable peculiarities which seem to separate it from other African tongues; viz., the system of prefixing to every noun a syllable without any separate meaning, and alliterational concord, which changes the initial sound of a secondary word into that of the priamary one."

Etymology

From alliteration + -al.

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