passival
English
noun
Definitions
- (grammar) An archaic progressive construction in middle voice (syntactically active but semantically passive), replaced by the passive progressive in modern English. For example, "the house is building", "the meal was eating", "the trunks were carrying down" (today "the house is being built", "the meal is being eaten").
Etymology
Suffix from English passive (express the suffering feeling).
Origin
English
passive
Gloss
express the suffering feeling
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antipassive English
- endopassive English
- exopassive English
- impassive English
- mediopassive English
- neutropassive English
- nonpassive English
- passivate English
- passivation English
- passive English
- passively English
- passiveness English
- passivise English
- passivism English
- passivist English
- passivistic English
- passivity English
- passivization English
- passivize English
- pseudopassive English
- transpassive English
- unpassive English
- *peh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- pasiv Albanian