Suppletion
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suppletion-205-13074459
title:
Suppletion
text:
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 not cognate. For those learning a language, suppletive forms will be seen as "irregular" or even "highly irregular". For example, go:went is a suppletive paradigm, because go and went are not etymologically related, whereas mouse:mice is irregular but not suppletive, since the two words come from the same Old English ancestor. The term "suppleti
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description:
A word having inflected forms from multiple unrelated stems
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppletion
date created:
2002-09-24T16:59:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T13:56:04Z
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