Paonese was of that type known as "polysynthetic," with root words taking on prefixes, affixes and postpositions to extend their meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Languages of Pao]

This has been called by writers treating this subject, the polysynthetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41] Reference

The hands that held my shoulders loosened and he slipped his arms around me to draw me close to his ample, polysynthetic stuffed breasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Run For The Money]

High Martian is polysynthetic and very stylized, with an expression for every nuance of their complex system of rewards and punishments, obligations and debts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Star]

As Geoffrey Pullum pointed out in the Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax, Inuit languages like the west Greenlandic Kalaallisut spoken in Kangerlussuaq, are polysynthetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running the Polar Circle marathon] Reference

Very different from all these is the spirit of a polysynthetic language.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America] Reference

I refer to the notions of “analytic, ” “synthetic, ” and “polysynthetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference

A polysynthetic language, as its name implies, is more than ordinarily synthetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference

” As such, it may be prefixing or suffixing, analytic, synthetic, or polysynthetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference

I allude to the monosyllabic and the polysynthetic languages, the former prevalent in.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

An inflective language, we must insist, may be analytic, synthetic, or polysynthetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference

The Chippewa is, in its structure, what is denominated by Mr. Du Ponceau "polysynthetic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers]

And (4) their languages were polysynthetic, forming a class apart from all others in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 1 (of 6)] Reference

We dismissed the scale: analytic, synthetic, polysynthetic, as too merely quantitative for our purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference

That its principles are not, in fact, polysynthetic, but on the contrary unasynthetic: its rules were all of one piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers]

A polysynthetic language illustrates no principles that are not already exemplified in the more familiar synthetic languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference

The suspension fluid is a proprietary mixture of advanced polysynthetic oils that provide superior performance and long-term stability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wil's Ebay E-Store]

It is not polysynthetic, at any rate, not more so than French, and its words undergo no such alteration by agglutination as in Aztec and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1] Reference

Spain and southwestern France have a speech of that highly complex and polysynthetic character which distinguishes the American languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iroquois Book of Rites] Reference

A language may be both agglutinative and inflective, or inflective and polysynthetic, or even polysynthetic and isolating, as we shall see a little later on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference

Here belong the “inflective” languages that we are most familiar with as well as a great many “agglutinative” languages, some “polysynthetic, ” others merely synthetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference

In its purity it employs suffixes only for the definition and meaning, though complex sentences are often formed of a single word -- that is, it is a polysynthetic in character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schwatka's Search] Reference

Underneath their present moderately polysynthetic form is discernible an analytic base that in the one case may be roughly described as English-like, in the other, Tibetan-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference

Further, should it prove desirable to insist on the degree of elaboration of the word, the terms “analytic, ” “synthetic, ” and “polysynthetic” can be added as descriptive terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference

Yana is highly polysynthetic and quite typically agglutinative, Salinan is no more synthetic than and as irregularly and compactly fusional (“inflective”) as Latin; both are pure-relational.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference

The transmission of thought by figures and symbols would, on the whole, therefore, foster those narrow and material tendencies which the genius of polysynthetic languages would seem calculated to produce.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America] Reference

America, then we may infer that it was composed of many tribes, scattered in loose bands over the country, and speaking languages widely and sometimes radically different, but all of a polysynthetic structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iroquois Book of Rites] Reference

( 'lovely'), and the polysynthetic ( 'loving,' 'loved').    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference

(mildly polysynthetic) Sioux c—cFusionalSyntheticSalinan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference

"What is certain about it is, that its structure is polysynthetic, like the languages of America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference

"polysynthetic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference