Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heteromorphemic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: het-ero-mor-phemic
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not occurring in the same morpheme; separated by a morpheme boundary.

Example Sentences

"To be sure all these examples of sequences are all heteromorphemic."
"The geminate ss is heteromorphemic, i.e. it is a single bundle of distinctive features linked to two heteromorphemic skeletal slots."
"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]."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor. English hetero- English morphemic English heteromorphemic From hetero- + morphemic.

Frequently Paired Words

heterosyllabic

Antonyms

tautomorphemic

Rhymes With

cheremic tautomorphemic oedemic nonracemic multimorphemic dysaemic hyperferremic mythemic calcaemic calcemic trimorphemic hyperkalaemic

Questions

What does heteromorphemic mean?: Not occurring in the same morpheme; separated by a morpheme boundary.
Where does heteromorphemic come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor. English hetero- English morphemic English heteromorphemic From hetero- + morphemic.

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