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by-form
[ bahy-fawrm ]
noun
- a closely related and sometimes less frequent form, as spelt for spelled; variant.
by-form
noun
- a subsidiary or variant form
Word History and Origins
Origin of by-form1
Example Sentences
The Oxford dictionary says the word is a "by-form of the surname Jarvis," but I am not learned enough to see the connection, unless it was Mr. Jarvis who drove the first side-car.
The by-form Hr�arr, which is used of the famous Danish king, is due to a number of rather irregular changes, which can however be paralleled.
The by-form Clodius, in its origin a mere orthographical variant, was regularly used for certain Claudii in late republican times, but otherwise the two forms were used indifferently.
Analogous to alliteration and perhaps to be classed as a by-form of it is the subtle use of the same sound in unstressed parts of neighboring words, as in— Over the dark abyss, whose boiling gulf Tamely endured a bridge of wondrous length.
It is hardly a “by-form” of nuptum as Muss-Arnolt, Assyrian Dictionary, p. 690b, and others have supposed, though nu-um-tum in one passage quoted by Muss-Arnolt, ib. p. 705a, may have arisen from an aspirate pronunciation of the p in nubtum.
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