"peninitial" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Blend of penultimate + initial",
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "paene",
        "t": "almost"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin paene (“almost”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "Blend of penultimate + initial, treating pen- (from Latin paene (“almost”)) as a prefix.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "peninitial (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "pen‧ini‧tial"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Stéphanie J. Bakker, The Noun Phrase in Ancient Greek: A Functional Analysis of the Order and Articulation of NP Constituents in Herodotus (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology), Brill, →ISBN, page 74:",
          "text": "In examples (81) and (82), the postpositive possessives do not occupy the peninitial position in the clause, nor the peninitial position of the NP.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Matthew Gordon, “Disentangling stress and pitch-accent: a typology of prominence at different prosodic levels”, in Harry van der Hulst, editor, Word Stress: Theoretical and Typological Issues, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 109:",
          "text": "Because the factors conditioning edge repulsion of the pitch peak are relatively weak at the left edge, it is not surprising that peninitial prominence is rare cross-linguistically.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Moreno Mitrović, “Configurational change in Indo-European coordinate constructions”, in Word Order Change (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics), volume 29, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 36:",
          "text": "I have empirically established that there were two canonical constructions available in IE languages: a head initial and a head peninitial one, the latter with the two mono- and polysydentic subtypes.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Falling in the position after initial position; second."
      ],
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          "linguistics",
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          "initial",
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        ],
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          "second",
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        "(chiefly linguistics) Falling in the position after initial position; second."
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ],
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        "linguistics",
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌpɛnɪˈnɪʃəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪʃəl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "peninitial"
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "paene",
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      },
      "expansion": "Latin paene (“almost”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of penultimate + initial, treating pen- (from Latin paene (“almost”)) as a prefix.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "pen‧ini‧tial"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2009, Stéphanie J. Bakker, The Noun Phrase in Ancient Greek: A Functional Analysis of the Order and Articulation of NP Constituents in Herodotus (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology), Brill, →ISBN, page 74:",
          "text": "In examples (81) and (82), the postpositive possessives do not occupy the peninitial position in the clause, nor the peninitial position of the NP.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Matthew Gordon, “Disentangling stress and pitch-accent: a typology of prominence at different prosodic levels”, in Harry van der Hulst, editor, Word Stress: Theoretical and Typological Issues, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 109:",
          "text": "Because the factors conditioning edge repulsion of the pitch peak are relatively weak at the left edge, it is not surprising that peninitial prominence is rare cross-linguistically.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2018, Moreno Mitrović, “Configurational change in Indo-European coordinate constructions”, in Word Order Change (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics), volume 29, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 36:",
          "text": "I have empirically established that there were two canonical constructions available in IE languages: a head initial and a head peninitial one, the latter with the two mono- and polysydentic subtypes.",
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        }
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        "Falling in the position after initial position; second."
      ],
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        "(chiefly linguistics) Falling in the position after initial position; second."
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      "ipa": "/ˌpɛnɪˈnɪʃəl/"
    },
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    }
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