suppletion

English - Turkish

Definition of suppletion in English Turkish dictionary

(Dilbilim) (İsim) Dilbilimde bir kelimenin değişik biçimli karşılığı; örneğin 'go' fiilinin geçmiş zaman biçimi olan 'went' veya 'good' sıfatının güçlü biçimi olan 'better

English - English

Definition of suppletion in English English dictionary

The use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking, e.g. using “to be able” as the infinitive of “can”, or “better” as the comparative of “good”

More loosely, use of unrelated (or distantly related) words for semantically related words which may not share the same lexical category, such as father/paternal or cow/bovine

The supplying of something lacking

{i} (Linguistics and Etymology) use of a word as tense or inflection of a completely different word that is not related to the uninflected form (e.g., the past tense of the verb "go" is "went" which derives from the past tense of the verb "wend"; "was" is the the past tense of "to be") )

The use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking, e.g. using "to be able" as the infinitive of "can", or "better" as the comparative of "good"

Hyphenation

sup·ple·tion

Etymology

() Latin supplere (“to supply”), perfect stem supplet-, + -ion.