suffixoid

noun

suffixoid

noun

Etymology From suffix + -oid, Coined by US etymologist and philologist Yakov Malkiel circa 1966.

1

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A wordfinal segment that has characteristics of both a free morpheme and a bound morpheme.

Related terms
combining form
Hypernyms
affixoid
Coordinate terms
prefixoid

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