heteromorphemic

English

Etymology

From hetero- +‎ morphemic.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːmɪk

Adjective

heteromorphemic (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Not occurring in the same morpheme; separated by a morpheme boundary.

   Antonym: tautomorphemic

   Coordinate term: heterosyllabic

   • 1964, Ural-Altaic yearbook, volume 36, page 33:

     To be sure all these examples of sequences are all heteromorphemic.

   • 2012, F. Dell, Syllables In Tashlhiyt Berber And In Moroccan Arabic, page 234:

     The geminate ss is heteromorphemic, i.e. it is a single bundle of distinctive features linked to two heteromorphemic skeletal slots.

   • 2015, Andrew Byrd, The Indo-European Syllable‎^[1], page 45:

     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].