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
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(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: