nyelvi kövület
C2
Hungarian
fossil
NOUN
C2
TECHNICAL
1
fossil
C1
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Meaning
linguistic form preserved from earlier stage
Themes
linguistics
|historical_language
|fixed_expressions
|archaism
|technical
|education
|communication
Definition
In linguistics, an element such as a word, phrase, or grammatical pattern that survives only in fixed expressions from an earlier stage of the language and is no longer used freely.
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