suffixoid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A wordfinal segment that has characteristics of both a free morpheme and a bound morpheme.

Word forms

suffixoid suffixoids

Etymology

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

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