nonverb

English

Etymology

non- +‎ verb

Noun

nonverb (plural nonverbs)

1. (grammar) A word that is not a verb.
   • 1960, Alfred Louis Kroeber, George William Grace, The Sparkman Grammar of Luiseño, University of California Press, page 57:

     Where no ambiguity has resulted, the terms (i.e., "verb," "nonverb," "noun," "adjective," etc.) applied to these classes have been used to refer to forms consisting of anything from a stem (single, nonaffix morpheme) to a sequence of several morphemes, whether or not the form in question constituted a word.