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demonymic
Language; General language
The name of an Athenian citizen based on the deme (i.e. a township or division of ancient Greece) he belonged to.
demotic
Language; General language
The popular form of the ancient-Egyptian written script. It is a simplified version of the priestly hieratic script. The popular written or spoken form of modern Greek.
denotatum
Language; General language
The actually existing entity that the linguistic expression labels.
dental consonant
Language; General language
A consonant sound that you make by placing the tip of your tongue near or against you upper teeth — for example, the [d] in the word dog and the [t] in turkey.
dental preterite
Language; General language
A past tense formed by adding a dental consonant as a suffix (e.g. hear --> heard and mean --> meant).
deontic modality
Language; General language
A type of modality that expresses what is possible, necessary, permissible, or obligatory.
dependent clause
Language; General language
A clause that doesn't express a complete thought. They are also called subordinate clauses.
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