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Heteroclitic vs Heteroclinic - What's the difference?

heteroclitic | heteroclinic |

As adjectives the difference between heteroclitic and heteroclinic

is that heteroclitic is (linguistics) in linguistics, particularly indo-european studies, signifying a stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case examples of heteroclitic noun stems in proto-indo-european include *wod-r/n-' "water" (nominoaccusative '''*wódr'''; genitive '''*udnés'''; locative '''*udén''') and '''*yékw-r/n-''' "liver" (nominoaccusative '''*yékwr''', genitive ' *ikwnés ) in proto-indo-european, heteroclitic stems tend to be noun stems with grammatically inanimate gender while heteroclinic is (mathematics) describing a path between two points of equilibrium.

As a noun heteroclitic

is a noun.

heteroclitic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (linguistics) In linguistics, particularly Indo-European Studies, signifying a stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case. Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include *wod-r/n-' "water" (nominoaccusative '''*wódr'''; genitive '''*udnés'''; locative '''*udén''') and '''*yékw-r/n-''' "liver" (nominoaccusative '''*yékwr''', genitive ' *ikwnés ). In Proto-Indo-European, heteroclitic stems tend to be noun stems with grammatically inanimate gender.
  • * 2011 , Eric J. Toone, Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology (page 300)

    • Related terms

    * heteroclite

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A noun.

    • Related terms

    * heteroclisis * heteroclite

    heteroclinic

    English

    Adjective

    (Heteroclinic orbit) (-)
  • (mathematics) Describing a path between two points of equilibrium

    • See also

    * homoclinic

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