Nounal and pronomial

[Eebster the Great]

Of all the adjectival forms of the parts of speech ("verbal," "adverbial," "prepositional," etc.), "nounal" is surely the strangest. It is rarely used and doesn't sound like a real word. Yet the adjectival form of "pronoun" is not "pronounal" but "pronomial," also rarely used, but at least a bit less awkward. Whom can I blame for this appalling state of affairs?

[Flumble]

Blame the English for bastardizing "nom"/"name" to "noun" ...and doing a half-assed job at that.

[goofy]

Whats wrong with "nominal"

[eSOANEM]

I'd only ever heard "nominal" before which is entirely consistent with pronominal

[Eebster the Great]

According to Wikipedia, "nominal" has a different, more general meaning in linguistics.

[Grop]

One would normally use noun as a adjective, as in a noun phrase. I suppose nominal wouldn't be ambiguous in the contexts* where noun wouldn't fit.

* (contexts that I don't imagine at the moment).

[chridd]

According to Wikipedia, "nominal" has a different, more general meaning in linguistics.

So does "adverbial". And "verbal" of course means "relating to language".