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morphemehood

morphemehood noun: the property of being a morpheme.

Noun

morphemehood (uncountable)

  1. The property of being a morpheme.
    • Morphological features can only be posited for a substrate language if there is sufficient positive evidence, i.e. an alternation between non-inherited endings. "Morpheme-hood" should only be posited based on language-internal evidence, as positing suffix alternation on the basis of forms in...2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 41

Origin of morphemehood

From morpheme + -hood.

Questions about morphemehood

What does morphemehood mean?
Morphemehood means the property of being a morpheme.
What part of speech is morphemehood?
Morphemehood is a noun.

Words near morphemehood in the dictionary

  1. morphed
  2. morpheein
  3. morpheeins
  4. morpheme
  5. morphemed
  6. morphemehood
  7. morphemes
  8. morphemetric
  9. morphemic
  10. morphemically
  11. morphemics

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