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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'disharmonic' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions disharmonic adjective  Not harmonic. (Australianist linguistics) Of or related to a generation an odd number of generations distant from a particular person. 1979, Barry J. Blake & w:R. M. W. Dixon, R. M. W. Dixon, The Handbook of Australian Languages :A person is 'harmonic' with respect to his own generation and all even-numbered generations counting away from his own, and with respect to odd-numbered generations. Thus a man is with respect to his father and his son but harmonic with respect to his grandfather and his grandson. 1995, Alan Dench, Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia'' :... there is also a special set of (non-singular first person) pronoun forms for use with kin: those in the opposite generation set. ... The two pronouns are used as polite forms when the addressee and speaker are in different alternate generation sets. Etymology: dis- + harmonic        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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