suffixoid

English

Etymology

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

Noun

suffixoid (plural suffixoids)

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

Coordinate terms

prefixoid

Translations

Translations

Finnish: suffiksoidi
German: Suffixoid (de) n, Pseudosuffix (de) n
Polish: sufiksoid m

See also

combining form

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