rarissimum 24: a derivational rule for forming nouns denoting plants from nouns denoting their fruits, and also nouns denoting containers from nouns denoting their characteristic contents
- Where found
- French (Romance, IE) Dutch (esp. Flemish; Germanic IE)
- Domain
- morphology: word formation
- Subdomain
- derivational categories
- Keywords
- denominal nouns
- Type
- rarissimum
- Universals violated
- none
- Source
- p.c. Ton van der Wouden (for Dutch)
e.g., French pomm-ier ‘apple tree’, frambois-ier ‘raspberry bush’, vinaigr-ier ‘vinegar flask’;
Dutch kastanje-laar ‘chestnut tree’