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zero suffix

noun

Etymology

From zero + suffix.

  1. borrowed from suffīxus
  2. compounded as zero suffix — “zero + suffix”

Definitions

  1. A suffix which is a null morpheme, used in models of linguistic analysis to represent the…

    A suffix which is a null morpheme, used in models of linguistic analysis to represent the lack of a suffix where one might otherwise be expected (for example, as one of several inflections that a stem can take, or the reduction of a historically vocalised suffix to the point that it is inaudible).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for zero suffix. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA