attributive

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I make my bread deciding whether a word is an attributive noun or adjective, parsing adverbial uses over conjunctive uses, writing those delightfully boring usage notes in your dictionary.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2013

With the exception of the nominative, the various forms of the noun are all attributive; there is no difference, for example, between “doing a thing” and “doing badly.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

For, besides these typical class-names, attributive words are general terms, such as 'royal,' 'ruling,' 'woolly,' 'bleating,' 'impalpable,' 'vanishing.'

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

In the substantive verb there are two classes, of which only one is also common to attributive verbs.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

But if the prefixed noun ends in e, this e is changed to a in the attributive of the compound; e.g., t�umasaqi 'the tip of the nail,' canacugui 'iron nails.'

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.