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free morpheme — noun a morpheme that can occur alone • Syn: ↑free form • Hypernyms: ↑morpheme * * * ˌfree ˈmorpheme 7 [free morpheme] noun ( … Useful english dictionary
Morpheme — Examples Unbreakable comprises three morphemes: un (a bound morpheme signifying not ), break (the root, a free morpheme), and able (a bound morpheme signifying doable ). Allomorphs of the plural morpheme for regular nouns: /s/ (e.g. in cats… … Wikipedia
free form — noun a morpheme that can occur alone • Syn: ↑free morpheme • Hypernyms: ↑morpheme * * * noun : an asymmetrical biomorphic and usually nonrectilinear shape used in works of art or of design especially of the 20th century and found typically in the … Useful english dictionary
morpheme — noun /ˈmɔː(r)fiːm/ The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as un , break , and able in the word unbreakable . The word pigs consists of two morphemes: pig (a particular animal) and s (indication of the plural).… … Wiktionary
free — [frē] adj. freer, freest [ME fre < OE freo, not in bondage, noble, glad, illustrious, akin to Ger frei, Du vrij < IE base * prei , to be fond of, hold dear > FRIEND, Sans priyá , dear, desired] 1. a) not under the control of some other… … English World dictionary
morpheme — noun Etymology: French morphème, from Greek morphē form Date: 1926 a distinctive collocation of phonemes (as the free form pin or the bound form s of pins) having no smaller meaningful parts • morphemic adjective • morphemically adverb … New Collegiate Dictionary
morpheme — Synonyms and related words: IC analysis, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph, bound morpheme, conjugation, cutting, declension, derivation, difference of form, enclitic, form, formative, free form, glosseme, icon, immediate constituent… … Moby Thesaurus
morpheme — The minimal unit of grammar . Free forms of morphemes are those that can occur as separate words; bound forms are items such as affixes and suffixes that must be recognized as components of grammatical structure. Morphology studies morphemes, and … Philosophy dictionary
Bound morpheme — In etymology, a bound morpheme is a root morpheme that cannot stand alone as an independent word. To determine if a root is bound, strip the root of all of its affixes (prefixes and suffixes). If the remaining root is not a word, that root is a… … Wikipedia
Oriya morphology — Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ oṛiā Spoken in India Region Orissa Native speakers 33 million (20 … Wikipedia
