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heteromorphemic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor. English hetero- English morphemic English heteromorphemic From hetero- + morphemic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not occurring in the same morpheme; separated by a morpheme boundary.
    • The geminate ss is heteromorphemic, i.e. it is a single bundle of distinctive features linked to two heteromorphemic skeletal slots. 2012, F. Dell, Syllables In Tashlhiyt Berber And In Moroccan Arabic, page 234:
    • To be sure all these examples of sequences are all heteromorphemic. 1964, Ural-Altaic yearbook, volume 36, page 33:
    • For example, the OCP blocks geminate sequences in English, except across certain prosodic boundaries, such as in compounds like penknife [pεn:aif] and heteromorphemic formations such as solely [sowl:i]. 2015, Andrew Byrd, The Indo-European Syllable, page 45:

Antonyms

tautomorphemic

Coordinates

heterosyllabic