Etymology

morphology

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Today it means: The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks). Full definition →

German Morphologie
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  1. German · borrowed fromMorphologie
  2. English todaymorphology

Borrowed from German Morphologie. By surface analysis, morpho- + -logy.

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