bound form

bound form

n.

1. A linguistic element that always occurs as part of another word, such as -ly in lovely.

2. The form taken by a noun in a Semitic language when the noun is followed directly by a possessor noun or by a possessive pronoun suffix.

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Noun

1.

bound form - a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns bound morpheme morpheme - minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units combining form - a bound form used only in compounds; "`hemato-' is a combining form in words like `hematology'" affix - a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form

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