Etymology

morphophonology

mor·pho·phon·ol·o·gy
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Today it means: A branch of linguistics concerned with the interactions between morphological and phonological or phonetic processes, i.e. how phonemes combine to form morphemes and how morphemes are phonologically or phonetically affected when they combine to form words. Full definition →

English phonology ← Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) ← Proto-Hellenic *lógos
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The story

  1. Ancient Greekμορφή (morphḗ)
  2. Englishmorpho-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  4. Proto-Hellenic*pʰōnā́
  5. Ancient Greekφωνή (phōnḗ)
  6. Englishphono-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
  9. Proto-Hellenic*lógos
  10. Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
  11. Englishphonology
  12. English todaymorphophonology

From morpho- + phonology.

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