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semiword

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
semi-word
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The initial or final constituent of compounds that cannot occur outside the domain of compounds, i.e., they are not freely combinable with words or phrases into syntactic constituents, but can undergo coordination reduction in both directions.

Etymology

From semi- + word.

Inflected Forms

semiwords (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

autonomous word affixoid affix

Questions

What does semiword mean?
The initial or final constituent of compounds that cannot occur outside the domain of compounds, i.e., they are not freely combinable with words or phrases into syntactic constituents, but can undergo coordination reduction in both directions.
Where does semiword come from?
From semi- + word.

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