perintegration
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A secondary interpretation or analysis of the morphemic structure of a word, allowing its reinterpretation or a transfer of morphemic boundaries.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Morphemics is in the foreground, but the author had to touch upon morphonological issues as well, especially the boundaries between morphemes and the so-called" morphemic knots" (overlappings), perintegration (shift of a morpheme boundary)."
- "Depending upon the measure, semantic or formal decorrelation between two units leads to the existence of radix polysemy, delimitation of potential morphematic boundaries or perintegration in primary word formation structure."
- "It is also due to the fact that the integrated meaning of the VNA is not only a simple sum of meanings of its constituent elements, according to the rule 'more words equals more content', but results as well from a peculiar perintegration of meanings brought by all these elements."
Etymology
From per- + integration.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: per