This page gathers the 23 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Morphology”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples.
- affix noun A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem, such as a prefix or suffix.
- bound morpheme noun A morpheme that can only occur when bound to a root morpheme. For example: cran- (as in cranberry), -ed, -ing, -ly.
- clusivity noun The distinction between the exclusive first-person plural pronoun ("we, excluding you") and the inclusive first-person plural pronoun ("we…
- cranberry morpheme noun A bound morpheme within a complex word that is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language.
- ephelcystic nu noun Paragogic nu ⟨ν⟩ (n), understood as an allomorph of certain Greek morphemic forms otherwise terminating in vowels ⟨ε⟩ (e) or ⟨ι⟩ (i), viz.…
- formant noun Synonym of formative (“a language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”).
- formative noun A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).
- free morpheme noun A morpheme that can carry meaning on its own, and does not require a prefix, suffix, or infix to give it meaning.
- infixation noun Word formation involving an infix or infixes; adding an infix to a word.
- interfix noun An empty morph inserted between two morphemes in the process of word formation, such as English -i- and -o-.
- macaronic noun A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages.
- morpheme noun The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning. It may be a letter, a syllable, or otherwise.
- morphologize verb To become, or cause (e.g. a phonetic feature) to become, (re)interpreted morphologically.
- paradigm leveling noun Regularisation of a paradigm, alignment of irregular forms on regular forms; replacement of irregular forms by regular forms in an…
- placeable noun Something which is conventionally associated with a specific place; for example, blinds go on windows, carpets go on floors.
- prefix noun A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.
- root noun The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller…
- subcategorizand noun The morpheme which does so.
- suffix noun A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
- suprafix noun A type of affix where a suprasegmental change (such as tone or stress) modifies an existing morpheme's meaning.
- vṛddhi noun The strongest ablaut-grade in a series of vowel alternations in certain Indo-European languages, most notably Sanskrit, as well as in…
- zero prefix noun A prefix which is a null morpheme, used in models of linguistic analysis to represent the lack of a prefix where one might otherwise be…
- zero suffix noun A suffix which is a null morpheme, used in models of linguistic analysis to represent the lack of a suffix where one might otherwise be…