"honorific transposition" meaning in English

See honorific transposition in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: honorific transpositions [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} honorific transposition (countable and uncountable, plural honorific transpositions)
  1. (linguistics, Egyptology) A shift in the sign order of a compound word or common phrase, to make certain religiously significant terms (e.g. nswt, nṯr, rꜥ) appear at the front of the word or phrase. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Ancient Egypt, Linguistics
    Sense id: en-honorific_transposition-en-noun-HN5vJnK- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: Egyptology, history, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "honorific transpositions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "honorific transposition (countable and uncountable, plural honorific transpositions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Ancient Egypt",
          "orig": "en:Ancient Egypt",
          "parents": [
            "Ancient Africa",
            "Ancient Near East",
            "History of Egypt",
            "Ancient history",
            "History of Africa",
            "Ancient Asia",
            "Egypt",
            "History of Asia",
            "History",
            "Africa",
            "Asia",
            "All topics",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shift in the sign order of a compound word or common phrase, to make certain religiously significant terms (e.g. nswt, nṯr, rꜥ) appear at the front of the word or phrase."
      ],
      "id": "en-honorific_transposition-en-noun-HN5vJnK-",
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "Egyptology",
          "Egyptology"
        ],
        [
          "nswt",
          "nswt#Egyptian"
        ],
        [
          "nṯr",
          "nṯr#Egyptian"
        ],
        [
          "rꜥ",
          "rꜥ#Egyptian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics, Egyptology) A shift in the sign order of a compound word or common phrase, to make certain religiously significant terms (e.g. nswt, nṯr, rꜥ) appear at the front of the word or phrase."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Egyptology",
        "history",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "honorific transposition"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "honorific transpositions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "honorific transposition (countable and uncountable, plural honorific transpositions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Ancient Egypt",
        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shift in the sign order of a compound word or common phrase, to make certain religiously significant terms (e.g. nswt, nṯr, rꜥ) appear at the front of the word or phrase."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "Egyptology",
          "Egyptology"
        ],
        [
          "nswt",
          "nswt#Egyptian"
        ],
        [
          "nṯr",
          "nṯr#Egyptian"
        ],
        [
          "rꜥ",
          "rꜥ#Egyptian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics, Egyptology) A shift in the sign order of a compound word or common phrase, to make certain religiously significant terms (e.g. nswt, nṯr, rꜥ) appear at the front of the word or phrase."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Egyptology",
        "history",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "honorific transposition"
}

Download raw JSONL data for honorific transposition meaning in English (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.