Feminate vs Geminate - What's the difference?
feminate | geminate |
Forming a pair.
* 2008 , Sara Finley,
To arrange in pairs.
To occur in pairs.
As adjectives the difference between feminate and geminate
is that feminate is (obsolete) feminine while geminate is forming a pair.As a verb geminate is
to arrange in pairs.geminate
English
Adjective
(-)Review of “The Representation and Processing of Compound Words”
- For example, Martin (2007) notes that compounds in several languages (including English and Turkish) violate the general phonological principles in the language (e.g., English only allows geminate consonants in compounds).