bound form

noun

bound form

noun

Etymology bound + form

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences a unit of language that can only be used as part of a word, not as a word on its own (such as the English suffix -ly).

Synonyms: bound morpheme
Related terms: affix, prefix, suffix, infix

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