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Definition of Enclitics

Enclitics
Enclitics En*clit"ics, n. (Gram.) The art of declining and conjugating words.
Enclitic
Enclitic En*clit"ic, Enclitical En*clit"ic*al, a. [L. encliticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to incline; ? in + ? to bend. See In, and Lean, v. i.] (Gram.) Affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word.
Enclitic
Enclitic En*clit"ic, n. (Gram.) A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).

Meaning of Enclitics from wikipedia

- but in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, the en****ics have become endings. Old Norse had also some en****ics of personal pronouns that were attached to...
- number, person, case, or mood. En****ics are bound suffixes that follow the inflectional ending of a word. An attached en****ic affects the meaning of the...
- colloquial varieties that still possess separate feminine plural pronouns. The en****ic forms of personal pronouns (اَلضَّمَائِر الْمُتَّصِلَة aḍ-ḍamā’ir al-muttaṣilah)...
- that certain en****ics are ****ociated with particular genders, such usage may not be exclusive. That is, individual men sometimes use en****ics ****ociated...
- possessive en****ic can, in cases which do not lead to ambiguity, follow the entire noun phrase, as in The President of India's wife, where the en****ic follows...
- also be used en****ically when they are unemphatic (see below under En****ics), in which case they are written without accents. When en****ic, ἐμέ emé, ἐμοῦ...
- that the stress could be shifted onto the en****ics; however, the fact that many of these same en****ics have allomorphs with apocopated final vowels...
- certain order after verbs (or particles, such as negation words). The en****ic pronoun is always followed by another pronoun (or discourse marker: Ikit...
- combination of the word namas and the second person dative pronoun in its en****ic form, te. The word namaḥ takes the sandhi form namas before the sound te...
- Verb forms can also take other en****ic suffixes; see the section En****ic particles below. For a list of the en****ics that mark the person and number...