suffixoid

English

Etymology

suffix + -oid, coined circa 1966 by Yakov Malkiel.

Noun

suffixoid (plural suffixoids)

  1. (linguistics) A wordfinal segment that has characteristics of both a free morpheme and a bound morpheme.

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