bound morpheme

English

Noun

bound morpheme (plural bound morphemes)

1. (linguistic morphology) A morpheme that can only occur when bound to a root morpheme. For example: cran- (as in cranberry), -ed, -ing, -ly.

Antonyms

• free morpheme

Hypernyms

• root morpheme

Hyponyms

• cranberry morpheme

Translations

type of morpheme

• Finnish: sidonnainen morfeemi (fi)
• French: morphème lié (fr) m
• German: gebundenes Morphem (de) n
• Japanese: 拘束形態素 (ja) (kōsoku keitaiso), 束縛形態素 (sokubaku keitaiso)

Further reading

• bound and free morphemes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cranberry morpheme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia