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Verb that is both transitive and intransitive
An ambitransitive verb is a verb that is both intransitive and transitive. This verb may or may not require a direct object. English has many ambitransitive
Ambitransitive_verb
Verb that does not entail a direct object
incredibly annoying to me." Some verbs, called ambitransitive verbs, may entail objects but do not always require one. Such a verb may be used as intransitive
Intransitive_verb
Verb that entails a transitive object
to arrive. Verbs that can be used in an intransitive or transitive way are called ambitransitive verbs. In English, an example is the verb to eat; the
Transitive_verb
Type of verb indicating more than just grammar
linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically express
Lexical_verb
Verb which takes a subject and two objects
2015. Beyond the basics: Transitive, intransitive, ditransitive and ambitransitive verbs. Advocate. Online: https://commons.cu-portland.edu/cgi/viewcontent
Ditransitive_verb
Verb that can be used transitively or intransitively
terminology in general linguistics is not stable yet. Labile verbs can also be called "S=O-ambitransitive" (following R. M. W. Dixon's usage), or "ergative", following
Labile_verb
Number and type of arguments controlled by a linguistic predicate
soda can is being crushed]. Note that this is not the same as an ambitransitive verb, which can be either intransitive or transitive (see criterion 4
Valency_(linguistics)
Class of intransitive verb
unergatives are truly intransitive, but ergatives are not. Ambitransitive verb Ergative verb Unaccusative verb Richards, Norvin. "Unergatives and Unaccusatives"
Unergative_verb
Verb whose direct object is the same as its subject
reflexive verb is, loosely, a verb whose direct object is the same as its subject, for example, "I wash myself". More generally, a reflexive verb has the
Reflexive_verb
Language of the Solomon Islands
also transitive verbs that cannot be transitivized. Examples are ngori 'to snore', bo 'to go', and vige 'to dry'. Ambitransitive verb stems can occur
Savosavo_language
Concept in linguistics
verb Reflexive verb Transitivity Ambitransitive verb – transitive equivalent of unergative Intransitive verb Transitive verb Unergative verb – opposite of
Unaccusative_verb
Concept in linguistics
In English, many anticausatives are of the class of "alternating ambitransitive verbs", where the alternation between transitive and intransitive forms
Anticausative_verb
Verb adding grammatical meaning rather than content meaning
An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect
Auxiliary_verb
Aspect of verb grammar
varieties: agentive and patientive ambitransitives. Agentive ambitransitives (also called S=A ambitransitives) include verbs such as walk and knit because
Causative
Type of verb, such as "might", that is used to indicate modality
A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order,
Modal_verb
Concept in English grammar
traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down
English_phrasal_verbs
Classification of verbs by regularity of inflection
regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. A verb whose
Regular_and_irregular_verbs
Grammatical construction
voice, the grammatical subject expresses the theme or patient of the main verb – that is, the person or thing that undergoes the action or has its state
Passive_voice
Grammatical voice
apl or appl) is a grammatical voice that promotes an oblique argument of a verb to the core object argument. It is generally considered a valency-increasing
Applicative_voice
Property regarding whether a lexical item denotes a transitive object
languages, including English, have ditransitive verbs that denote two objects, and some verbs may be ambitransitive in a manner that is either transitive (e
Transitivity_(grammar)
Verb formed from a noun
Look up denominal verb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In grammar, denominal verbs are verbs derived from nouns. Many languages have regular morphological
Denominal_verb
Part of speech that conveys an action
Adyghe verbs Arabic verbs Ancient Greek verbs Basque verbs Bulgarian verbs Chinese verbs English verbs Finnish verb conjugation French verbs German verbs Germanic
Verb
Grammatical component
verb, vector verb, explicator verb, thin verb, empty verb and semantically weak verb. While light verbs are similar to auxiliary verbs regarding their
Light_verb
Concept in linguistics
term negative verb or negative auxiliary refers to an auxiliary verb whose function is to negate the clause in which it occurs. Negative verbs are similar
Negative_verb
Verb that describes a state of being
In linguistics, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action. The difference can
Stative_verb
Type of inflection in Germanic languages
Germanic languages, a strong verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes to the stem vowel. A minority of verbs in any Germanic language
Germanic_strong_verb
Functional part of speech in most languages
often a verb or a verb-like word, though this is not universally the case. A verb that is a copula is sometimes called a copulative or copular verb. In English
Copula_(linguistics)
Labile (Ambitransitive) Verbs, where the direct object of its transitive use corresponds to the subject of its intransitive use, and Causative Verbs, which
Circassian_verb_transitivity
Type of verb in Germanic languages
Germanic languages, weak verbs are by far the largest group of verbs, and are therefore often regarded as the norm (the regular verbs). They are distinguished
Germanic_weak_verb
Verb that has no determinate subject
linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence "It rains", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun it
Impersonal_verb
Multi-word compound that functions as a single verb
compound verb or complex predicate is a multi-word compound that functions as a single verb. One component of the compound is a light verb or vector
Compound_verb
Type of morphosyntactic alignment in linguistic typology
and extensive use of particles. Ambitransitive verb Case Diathesis alternation Ergative-absolutive language Labile verb Morphosyntactic alignment Nominative-absolutive
Active–stative_alignment
Greek language word subclass
Pure verbs, or vocalic verbs, are those verbs of the Greek language that have their word stem ending in a vowel (monophthong or diphthong). The Greek pure
Pure_verbs
Nonfinite verb form
a gerund (/ˈdʒɛrənd, -ʌnd/ abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is one that
Gerund
Verb with incomplete conjugation
In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb that either lacks a conjugated form or entails incomplete conjugation, and thus cannot be conjugated for certain
Defective_verb
Verbs that can't complete a clause (such as "going" or "to live")
Nonfinite verbs are verb forms that do not show tense, person, or number. They include: Infinitives (e.g., to go, to see), which are the base forms of verbs, and
Nonfinite_verb
Type of grammatical voice
construction is similar to the passive voice, in that it decreases the verb's valency by one – the passive by deleting the agent and "promoting" the object
Antipassive_voice
Verb with a prefix which separates from the core verb in certain positions in a sentence
A separable verb is a verb that is composed of a lexical core and a separable particle. In some sentence positions, the core verb and the particle appear
Separable_verb
English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL Active-stative alignment Ambitransitive verb Voice
Diathesis_alternation
Category of words based on shared grammatical properties in a clause
similar semantic behavior. Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, numeral
Part_of_speech
Grammatical form
is a term in linguistics for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs that do not show a tense. As with many
Infinitive
Verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb
The impersonal passive voice is a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb (which has valency one) to zero. The impersonal passive
Impersonal_passive_voice
Part of speech
An attributive verb is a verb that modifies (expresses an attribute of) a noun in the manner of an attributive adjective, rather than express an independent
Attributive_verb
Grammatical case
inflected noun benefits from the situation expressed by the verb, or, when there is no verb, that the noun to which it attaches is a recipient, as in the
Benefactive_case
Grammatical concept
object-deletion verb is adopted from Biber et al. (1999:147). Such verbs are also called ambitransitive. Dependency trees similar to the ones produced here can be
Object_(grammar)
Verb that is active in meaning but takes its form from a different voice
deponent verb is a verb that is active in meaning but takes its form from a different voice, most commonly the middle or passive. A deponent verb has no
Deponent_verb
Verb that can precede another verb
Appendix:English catenative verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In English and other languages, catenative verbs are verbs which can be followed within
Catenative_verb
Captative verbs indicate catching and hunting of a specific animal or other target, e.g. English to fish. Usually captatives are not separately marked
Captative_verb
Form of verbal noun used in some languages
most often used for Latin, where it is one of the four principal parts of a verb. The word also refers to a position of lying on one's back (as opposed to
Supine
Grammatical features of Classical Nahuatl
(something)", quiteci "he grinds it". Another small class of unaccusative ambitransitive verbs ending in -hua exhibit a regular covariance of class and transitivity
Classical_Nahuatl_grammar
change of state like a patient/subject." Some Spanish examples include "verbs of displacement," such as mudarse 'to move (in the sense of changing domicile)'
Autocausative_verb
Adverbial form of verb (adverb constructed from verbs)
In theoretical linguistics, a converb (abbreviated cvb) is a nonfinite verb form that serves to express adverbial subordination: notions like 'when', 'because'
Converb
linguistics, is a phenomenon in which the subject of an embedded infinitival verb seems to appear in a superordinate clause and, if it is a pronoun, is unexpectedly
Exceptional_case-marking
Type of noun referring to collections as a unit
singular or plural verb forms depending on context and the metonymic shift that it implies, while in some other forms of English the verb agreement is less
Collective_noun
Anaphoric pronoun
the noun the pronouns are emphasizing or, if the noun is subject, after-verb-or-object position is also possible. For example, "Why don't you yourself
Reflexive_pronoun
Shifting sentence forms with two-object verbs
a verb can take on two alternating forms, the oblique dative form or the double object construction form. In the oblique dative (OD) form, the verb takes
Dative_shift
Grammar of the English language
prepositions, and by the "Saxon genitive or English possessive" (-'s). Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are open classes – word classes that readily accept
English_grammar
Khoe language of Botswana
appear: transitive, intransitive, and ambitransitive. Tsʼixa has no ditransitive verbs, in the sense of verbs that allow double-object patterns. It appears
Tsʼixa_language
Pronoun that indicates a relationship which is reciprocal
we can look at a reciprocal relationship using this notation, using the verb see as the relation: see(Anne, Betty) and see(Betty, Anne). Within the theory
Reciprocal_pronoun
Pronoun having no referent
dummy pronouns is with weather verbs, such as in the phrases "it is snowing" or "it is hot." In these sentences, the verb (to snow, to rain, etc.) is usually
Dummy_pronoun
Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea
intransitives take S (d) extended intransitives take S and E Some verbs are ambitransitive and take either active or middle voice. The voice system of the
Motuna_language
Latin verb form that functions as an adjective
In Latin grammar, a gerundive (/dʒəˈrʌndɪv/) is a verb form that functions as a verbal adjective. In Classical Latin, the gerundive has the same form as
Gerundive
core cases. A verb may hold at most three arguments — one of each: Two kinds of verb sit outside this scheme. Labile (ambitransitive) verbs work both ways:
Verb conjugations in Circassian
Verb_conjugations_in_Circassian
Sentence with two or more simultaneous agents and patients
(between themselves) when the verb is third person. Most Indo-European languages do not have special reciprocal affixes on verbs, and mutual relations are
Reciprocal_construction
Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu
Object suffixes encode the object of derived transitive verbs, ambitransitive verbs, ditransitive verbs and of the preposition -ki. To reference an object
Nafsan_language
Type of word or affix that is used to accompany nouns
and others. A less typical example of classifiers is those used with the verb. Verbal classifiers are found in languages like Southern Athabaskan. Classifier
Classifier_(linguistics)
Verbs that behave as an adjective
A predicative verb is a verb that behaves as a grammatical adjective; that is, it predicates (qualifies or informs about the properties of its argument)
Predicative_verb
Verb that describes a continued or progressive action
dynamic verb is a verb that refers to continued or progressive action on the part of the subject, also known as an active verb, action verb, eventive verb or
Dynamic_verb
Grammatical construct resembling a verb
resembles a verb or co-operates with a verb. In languages that have the serial verb construction, coverbs are a type of word that shares features of verbs and
Coverb
Word or form that substitutes for another word
phrase that functions as an adverb: how or this way. A pro-verb substitutes a verb or a verb phrase: do, as in: "I will go to the party if you do". A pro-sentence
Pro-form
andative and venitive (abbreviated and and ven) are a type of verbal deixis: verb forms which indicate 'going' or 'coming' motion, respectively, in reference
Andative_and_venitive
Adverb connecting two independent clauses
by converting the clause it introduces into an adverbial modifier of the verb in the main clause. For example, in "I told him; thus, he knows" and "I told
Conjunctive_adverb
Phonological process
of verbs when they are used as nouns or adjectives. (This is an example of a suprafix.) This process can be found in the case of several dozen verb-noun
Initial-stress-derived_noun
Word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase
pro-forms that are not pronouns. In [5], did so is a verb phrase that stands in for "helped" (a pro-verb), inflected from to help stated earlier in the sentence
Pronoun
Words that indicate a question is being asked, as a grammatical category
modify a verb. In the question How did you announce the deal? the interrogative word how is an interrogative adverb because it modifies the verb did (past
Interrogative_word
Personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object
used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. Object pronouns contrast with subject pronouns
Object_pronoun
Verbs carried out through being uttered
Performative verbs are verbs carried out simply by means of uttering them aloud. When a judge sentences someone to jail time, for example, the action
Performative_verb
Noun formed from or otherwise corresponding to a verb
Historically, grammarians have described a verbal noun or gerundial noun as a verb form that functions as a noun. An example of a verbal noun in English is
Verbal_noun
Type of determiner that indicates quantity
Verbal Verb Forms Attributive Converb Finite / Nonfinite Gerund Gerundive Infinitive Participle Supine Transgressive Verbal noun Types Ambitransitive Andative
Quantifier_(linguistics)
Grammatical distinction in pronouns and agreement
distinction is marked on dual and plural forms of verbs, independent pronouns, and possessive pronouns. Where verbs are inflected for person, as in the native
Clusivity
Language native to Brazil
the range of ambitransitive verbs in Bororo is much narrower (if indeed ambitransitives exist at all) than in English, and so several verbs which are transitive
Bororo_language
Word which is similar in form to a preposition but acts as an adverb
also modify the verb, which a preposition does not. An example of a prepositional adverb in English is inside in He peeked inside. A verb combined with
Prepositional_adverb
Personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a verb
a subject pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a verb. Subject pronouns are usually in the nominative case for languages with a
Subject_pronoun
Grammatical aspect that indicates repeated action over multiple occasions or places
Some frequentative verbs surviving in English, and their parent verbs are listed below. Additionally, some frequentative verbs are formed by reduplication
Frequentative
Adjective that occurs immediately after the noun or pronoun that it complements
and any adjective may be a predicate adjective if it follows a copular verb. For example: monsters unseen were said to lurk beyond the moor (postpositive
Postpositive_adjective
Complex predicate composed of a light verb and an eventive noun
A stretched verb is a complex predicate composed of a light verb and an eventive aspect noun. An example is the English phrase "take a bite out of", which
Stretched_verb
Pronoun that is associated with a particular grammatical person
raining". So, it is a pronoun but not a pro-form. Finally, in [3], did so is a verb phrase, not a pronoun, but it is a pro-form standing for "help". Languages
Personal_pronoun
Adverb that is the same as its adjective form
adverb sure can only modify verbs. Citing data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English, sure was followed by a verb 7,396 times, but it was rarely
Flat_adverb
Word or expression used to express an emotion or sentiment
thought interjections modified the verb much in the same way as adverbs do, thus interjections were closely connected to verbs. Unlike their Greek counterparts
Interjection
Words supplying mainly grammatical information, rather than content information
class words, lexical words, or autosemantic words) and include nouns, most verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs, although some adverbs are function words
Function_word
Part of speech that defines a noun or pronoun
with verbs, rather than an adjective meaning "big", a language might have a verb that means "to be big" and could then use an attributive verb construction
Adjective
Grammar of the Dutch language
transitive verbs can also be used intransitively, and are thus ambitransitive. For example, ik eet een appel "I eat an apple" contains a transitive verb, while
Dutch_grammar
Cause or initiator of an event
one doing') of the Latin verb agere, to 'do' or 'make'. Typically, the situation is denoted by a sentence, the action by a verb in the sentence, and the
Agent_(grammar)
Grammatical use indicating possession
Verbal Verb Forms Attributive Converb Finite / Nonfinite Gerund Gerundive Infinitive Participle Supine Transgressive Verbal noun Types Ambitransitive Andative
Possessive
Form of personal pronoun
watch him; look at him) may complement either prepositions or transitive verbs. In some other languages, a special set of pronouns is required in prepositional
Prepositional_pronoun
Grammar term
Deverbal nouns are nouns that are derived from verbs or verb phrases. Verbal nouns and deverbal nouns are distinct syntactic word classes. Functionally
Deverbal_noun
Noun whose quantity is treated as an undifferentiated unit
no concept of singular and plural, although in English they take singular verb forms. However, many mass nouns in English can be converted to count nouns
Mass_noun
Verbal Verb Forms Attributive Converb Finite / Nonfinite Gerund Gerundive Infinitive Participle Supine Transgressive Verbal noun Types Ambitransitive Andative
Latin_interjections
Ok language of Western New Guinea
only. There is also a verb, kombi, which is ambitransitive, either taking an object prefix meaning "hit/kill", or an intransitive verb meaning "fall", which
Muyu_language
Type of pronoun
functions as an adverbial or adnominal modifier, not as an argument of a verb. Both intensive and reflexive pronouns make reference to an antecedent. For
Intensive_pronoun
AMBITRANSITIVE VERB
AMBITRANSITIVE VERB
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish (of French origin)
English and Scottish (of French origin) : habitational name from La Tranche in Poitou, so named from the Old French topographical term trenche, a derivative of the verb trenchier ‘to cut’, which denoted both a ditch and a track cut through a forest. The term is also found in Middle English, and in some cases the surname could be of topographic origin or from minor place, such as The Trench in Kent, named with this word.The Trench family that hold the earldom of Clancarty trace their descent from Frederic de la Tranche, who settled in Northumbria from France c.1575. They became established in Ireland in the 17th century, when Frederick Trench went there and purchased an estate in Galway in 1631.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : probably a variant of Jelley.German and Frisian : from a Germanic personal name composed with gelt-, cognate with the verb gelten ‘sacrifice’, ‘repay’.Norwegian : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English (Kentish)
English (Kentish) : occupational name for a maker or seller of pilches, from an agent derivative of Pilch. In early 17th-century English, pilcher was a popular term of abuse, being confused or punningly associated with the unrelated verb pilch ‘to steal’ and with the unrelated noun pilchard, a kind of fish.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a worker in the linen or hemp industry, from Middle English swingle ‘swingle’, a wooden implement used for beating flax or hemp (Middle Dutch swinghel, from the verb ‘to swing’).Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Zwingel, a topographic name from Middle High German zwingel ‘citadel’.
Surname or Lastname
English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish (Simón), Czech and Slovak (Šimon), Slovenian, Hungarian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish (Simón), Czech and Slovak (Å imon), Slovenian, Hungarian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the personal name, Hebrew Shim‘on, which is probably derived from the verb sham‘a ‘to hearken’. In the Vulgate and in many vernacular versions of the Old Testament, this is usually rendered Simeon. In the Greek New Testament, however, the name occurs as SimÅn, as a result of assimilation to the pre-existing Greek byname SÄ«mÅn (from sÄ«mos ‘snub-nosed’). Both Simon and Simeon were in use as personal names in western Europe from the Middle Ages onward. In Christendom the former was always more popular, at least in part because of its associations with the apostle Simon Peter, the brother of Andrew. In Britain there was also confusion from an early date with Anglo-Scandinavian forms of Sigmund (see Siegmund), a name whose popularity was reinforced at the Conquest by the Norman form Simund.The earliest documented bearer of the surname Simon in New France came from the Saintonge region of France and was in Montreal by 1655. Another, from Paris, is recorded in Quebec City in 1659 with the secondary surname Lapointe.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : occupational name for someone who made silk thread from raw silk, from an agent derivative of Middle English thrÅw(en) (Old English þrÄwan ‘to twist’). From the 13th century the verb began to be used in its modern sense, including throwing clay in pottery, and so in some cases the surname may have originated as an occupational name for a potter.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old French verb fourbir ‘to burnish’, ‘to furbish’ (a word of Germanic origin), an occupational name for a polisher of metal, in particular someone employed by an armorer to put the finishing touches to his work.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained. In part it may be an Anglicized spelling of French Triplet, a reduced form of Tripelet, from a derivative of the Old French verb tripier ‘to hop’, ‘to skip’, hence a nickname for a dancer or acrobat.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a habitational name from ‘The Leen’ (earlier Leon, ‘at the streams’) in Hereford or the Leen river in Nottinghamshire. Both are derived from a Celtic root verb lei- ‘flow’ (for example as in Welsh lliant ‘stream’).English : variant spelling of Lean.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : of uncertain origin. Early examples, as for example William Spring (Yorkshire 1280), all point to a personal name or nickname, perhaps going back to an Old English byname derived from the verb springan ‘to jump or leap’ (see Springer 1). Alternatively, it could be a topographic name from Middle English spring ‘young wood’, ‘spring’. Compare Springer. Reaney derives the surname from the word denoting the season, although the word is not attested in this sense until the 16th century, the usual Middle English word being lenten. Compare Lenz. The surname has also been established in Ireland (County Kerry) for several centuries.German : from Middle High German sprinc, Middle Low German sprink ‘spring’, ‘well’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or well, or habitational name from Springe near Hannover.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Springer.John Spring emigrated from England and settled in Watertown, MA, in 1634.
Surname or Lastname
Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a cantor in a synagogue, from Yiddish zinger ‘singer’.English : variant of Sanger 2, in fact a Middle English recoinage from the verb sing(en) ‘to sing’.German : variant of Sänger (see Sanger 1) in the sense of ‘poet’.Isaac Merrit Singer, inventor of the eponymous sewing machine, was born in 1811 in Pittstown, NY, the son of German immigrant Adam Reisinger. He had five wives and fathered 24 children. Singer, who incorporated his company as the Singer Manufacturing Company in 1864, left a fortune worth $13 million to his various heirs.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name, probably for a trimmer of cloth. The verb trim is not attested in its modern sense before the early 16th century, but the surname form William le Trymmere is found in the 14th century, and this seems to be continuous with Old English trymian, trymman ‘to strengthen or confirm’ (from trum ‘strong’, ‘firm’).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a winder of wool, from an agent derivative of Middle English winde(n) ‘to wind’ (Old English windan ‘to go’, ‘to proceed’). The verb was also used in the Middle Ages of various weaving and plaiting processes, so that in some cases the name may have referred to a basket or hurdle maker.English : habitational name from any of the various minor places in northern England so called, from Old English vindr ‘wind’ + erg ‘hut’, ‘shelter’, i.e. a shelter against the wind.English : John Winder is recorded in Somerset Co., MD, in 1665. William Henry Winder, born in the county in 1775, was blamed for the military defeat that led to the British burning of Washington, DC, in 1814; his son John Henry Winder (b. 1800) was a confederate general who was commander of southern military prisons.
Surname or Lastname
English and Dutch
English and Dutch : occupational name for a tanner of skins, Middle English tanner, Middle Dutch taenre. (The Middle English form derives from Old English tannere, from Late Latin tannarius, reinforced by Old French taneor, from Late Latin tannator; both Late Latin forms derive from a verb tannare, possibly from a Celtic word for the oak, whose bark was used in the process.)Swiss and German : habitational name for someone from any of several places called Tanne (in the Harz Mountains and Silesia) or Tann (southern Germany).Finnish : topographic or ornamental name from Finnish tanner ‘open field’.
Surname or Lastname
Irish (County Louth)
Irish (County Louth) : variant of Devine 1.English and French : variant of Devine 2.French : from devin ‘sorcerer’, ‘fortune teller’ (related to the verb deviner ‘to divine’, ‘foretell’).Russian : metronymic from deva ‘girl’, normally a designation of an illegitimate child. Sometimes it may be a patronymic from a nickname for an effeminate man.A Breton bearer of this name was married in Quebec city in 1692.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for someone who constructed or repaired roofs, from an agent derivative of Middle English roof (Old English hrÅf). In the Middle Ages roofs might be thatched with reeds or straw, or covered with tiles, slates, or wooden shingles.German and English : nickname for an unscrupulous individual, from Middle Low German rÅver ‘pirate’, ‘robber’, Middle English rover. The English verb rove ‘to wander’ is probably a back-formation from this, and is not attested before the 16th century, so it is unlikely to lie behind any examples of the surname.German : variant of Röver (see Roever).
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearadhaigh ‘descendant of Fearadhach’, a personal name of uncertain origin, probably an adjective derivative of fear ‘man’.English : metonymic occupational name for a ferryman, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ferry crossing on a river. Middle English feri ‘ferry’ is from Old Norse ferja ‘ferry’, ultimately cognate with the Old English verb ferian ‘to carry’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a dyer of cloth, Middle English dyer (from Old English dēag ‘dye’; the verb is a back-formation from the agent noun). This surname also occurs in Scotland, but Lister is a more common equivalent there.Irish (Counties Sligo and Roscommon) : usually a short form of MacDyer, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Duibhir ‘son of Duibhir’, a short form of a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘dark’, ‘black’ + odhar ‘sallow’, ‘tawny’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a hardener of metals or a baker, from an agent derivative of Middle English harde(n); this verb is known to have been used with reference to metals and to heating dough.North German, Frisian, and Danish : from a personal name, Harder, Herder.South German : topographic name or habitational name from any of the places named with Middle High German hart ‘woodland used as pasture’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Hipswell in North Yorkshire, named in Old English possibly as ‘stream with stepping stones’; the first element may be from an unattested noun derivative hyppels of the verb hoppian ‘to hop’, and the second is wella, wiella ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
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Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese
Lily
Boy/Male
Arabic, Indian, Muslim, Parsi, Pashtun, Sindhi
Blessed; Auspicious; Young Bird; Sprout; Beautiful; Happy
Boy/Male
Australian, French, Scottish
Manly; Strong; Masculine; Instigator; Matured
Boy/Male
Hindu
Shining, Brilliant
Female
Swiss
, bitter, or, their rebellion.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Helper
Boy/Male
Greek
Leaving.
Boy/Male
British, English
Powerful
Male
Hindi/Indian
Hindi name NILAKANTA means "blue-throated." In mythology, this is a title belonging to the naga king Vasuki.
Girl/Female
Dutch, German, Latin, Swedish
Worthy of Respect; Great; Magnificent; Venerable; Female Version of Gustaaf
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of Verbalize
n.
Something expressed verbally; a verbal remark or expression.
n.
The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
v. t.
To strew with verbena, or vervain, as in ancient sacrifices and rites.
a.
Of or pertaining to words; verbal.
adv.
Word for word; verbatim.
n.
The act of verbalizing, or the state of being verbalized.
a.
Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
n.
The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Verbalize
n.
The act of verberating; a beating or striking.
pl.
of Verbosity
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Verbenate
a.
Of or pertaining to a natural order (Verbenaceae) of gamopetalous plants of which Verbena is the type. The order includes also the black and white mangroves, and many plants noted for medicinal use or for beauty of bloom.
n.
The quality or state of being verbal; mere words; bare literal expression.
v. i.
To be verbose.
adv.
Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it.
v. t.
To convert into a verb; to verbify.
imp. & p. p.
of Verbenate
adv.
In a verbal manner; orally.