Definition of Suppletion. Meaning of Suppletion. Synonyms of Suppletion

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- In linguistics and etymology, suppletion is traditionally understood as the use of one word as the inflected form of another word when the two words are...
- do not make use of the same stem throughout; this phenomenon is called suppletion. An example of a suppletive paradigm is the paradigm for the adjective...
- Look up go in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The verb go is an irregular verb in the English language (see English irregular verbs). It has a wide range...
- meaningful sub-units, or how words change their form in certain cir****stances. Suppletion concerns closely related words (often singular and plural forms of nouns...
- xasawa ŋǝcʹeki°-q man child-PL ‘boys’: 167  A few irregular verbs show suppletion. The most frequent suppletive verbs are xǣ- ‘to go, to depart’, ŋǣ- ‘to...
- or suffixes, changes in the root, using a completely different root (suppletion), or changes in stress. Possessing a prefix does not necessarily mean...
- the few fractions which are commonly expressed in natural languages by suppletion rather than regular derivation. In English, for example, compare the compound...
- Instead of using affixation to distinguish number for a noun, Yimas uses suppletion for many common nouns; in other words, the singular and plural forms have...
- Otmar (1991). "The incorporation of Old Norse pronouns in Middle English: suppletion by loan". Language Contact in the British Isles: 369–401. doi:10.1515/9783111678658...
- secondary role. Vowel alternances are active, as well as infixation and suppletion. However, these are not as productive as in Spanish, and are mostly restricted...