suffixoid

English

Etymology

From 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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 类后缀

• Czech: sufixoid (cs) m
• Finnish: suffiksoidi
• German: Suffixoid (de) n, Pseudosuffix (de) n
• Polish: sufiksoid m
• Serbo-Croatian: sufiksoid (sh) m
• Spanish: sufixoide m, sufijoide m

See also

• combining form