suffixoid

suffixoid

See also: Suffixoid

English

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Etymology

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

Noun

suffixoid (plural suffixoids)

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

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German

Etymology

    From Suffix +‎ -oid.

    Adjective

    suffixoid (strong nominative masculine singular suffixoider, not comparable)

    1. suffixoid; suffix-like

    Declension

    Further reading

    • suffixoid”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
    • suffixoid” in Duden online