alliterational
English
Etymology
alliteration + -al
Adjective
alliterational (comparative more alliterational, superlative most alliterational)
- Involving alliteration; alliterative.
- 1859, Charles Hamilton Smith, The natural history of the human species, page 46:
- Their language has two remarkable peculiarities which seem to separate it from other African tongues; viz., the system of prefixing to every noun a syllable without any separate meaning, and alliterational concord, which changes the initial sound of a secondary word into that of the priamary one.
- 1973, Israel Rosenberg, The world of words, page 85:
- "In whose eyes I shall find grace" is furthermore a very important alliterational brush-stroke on this charming broad canvas.
- 1998, Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinskiĭ, Kenneth H. Ober, The Elder Edda and early forms of the epic, page 230:
- In the heroic lays, parallelisms of long lines predominate, strictly organized from the point of view of alliterational technique.