acrostatic
adjEtymology From acro- + static.
1
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences In Proto-Indo-European athematic nominals, having a specific pattern of ablaut in which the accent is placed on the root syllable in all cases.
- The Proto-Indo-European word for ‘night’ was acrostatic: nominative singular *nókʷ-t-s, genitive *nékʷ-t-s.
- Synonyms
- acrodynamic
- Coordinate terms
- amphikinetic, hysterokinetic, proterokinetic