suffixoid

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

suffixoid (plural suffixoids)

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

Coordinate terms[edit]

prefixoid

See also[edit]

combining form

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