parasynthesis


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
parasynthesis/parəˈsɪnθɪsɪs/
noun Linguistics a process by which a term is formed by adding a bound morpheme (e.g. -ed) to a combination of existing words (e.g. black-eyed from black eye(s) + -ed).
– derivatives
parasynthetic adjective,
parasynthetically adverb.
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