deinstrumental

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ instrumental. Compare denominal, deverbal.

Adjective

deinstrumental (not comparable)

  1. (grammar, linguistics) Derived from an instrumental case-form.
    • 2008, Michiel De Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, volume 7), Brill, page 125:
      Alternatively, one might regard colōnus as a deinstrumental noun in *-no- from an ins.sg. *kʷolh₁-oh₁ 'with cultivation', i.e. from an earlier action noun *kwólh₁-o- 'going round'.
    • 2016, Lothar Willms, “On the origin of Latin suffixes in -d- and -es, -itis”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 121, number 1, →DOI, page 93:
      Recently Weiss (2009: 303–5) delineated in his Outline a clear sketch of the steps by which the Latin group in -et- originated by composition and analogy, and identified three subgroups (deverbal, denominal, deinstrumental) with different origins among the nouns in simple d.
    • 2017, Brent Vine, “The morphology of Italic”, in Jared Klein, Brian Joseph and Matthias Fritz, editors, Volume 2 Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, page 780:
      A highly characteristic subtype of the general case just mentioned (athematic base plus complex thematic suffix) appears in so-called “deinstrumental” adjectival formations: thus astū ‘cleverly’ (u-stem instr. sg. *-u-h₁, i.e. ‘with cleverness’) → astūtus ‘clever’, similarly -ītus adjectives based on i-stem instr. sg. *-i-h₁ (aurītus ‘having ears’, cf. auris ‘ear’), -ōtus adjectives based on o-stem instr. sg. *-o-h₁ (aegrōtus ‘sick’, cf. aegrum ‘distress’); likewise, with instr. sg. plus *-no-, adjectival suffix conglomerates -īnus, -ūnus, -ōnus etc. (cf. Weiss 2011: 290, 293, and further 7.3.1.3 on futūrus).
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