suffixoid

English

Etymology

suffix +‎ -oid, Coined by US etymologist and philologist Yakov Malkiel circa 1966.

Noun

suffixoid (plural suffixoids)

1. (linguistics) A wordfinal segment that has characteristics of both a free morpheme and a bound morpheme.

Coordinate terms

• prefixoid

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: suffiksoidi
• German: Suffixoid (de) n, Pseudosuffix (de) n
• Polish: sufiksoid m
• Spanish: sufixoide m, sufijoide m

See also

• combining form