bound form

Noun
  1. A morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction;
    Eg an -s at the end of plural nouns (synset 106317935)
    is a type of: morpheme - minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
    subtypes:
    • combining form - a bound form used only in compounds
    • affix - a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
    same as: bound morpheme

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