Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesNot occurring in the same morpheme; separated by a morpheme boundary.
To be sure all these examples of sequences are all heteromorphemic.
1964, Ural-Altaic yearbook, volume 36, page 332 more examples
The geminate ss is heteromorphemic, i.e. it is a single bundle of distinctive features linked to two heteromorphemic skeletal slots.
2012, F. Dell, Syllables In Tashlhiyt Berber And In Moroccan Arabic, page 234For example, the OCP blocks geminate sequences in English, except across certain prosodic boundaries, such as in compounds like penknife [pεn:aif] and heteromorphemic formations such as solely [sowl:i].
2015, Andrew Byrd, The Indo-European Syllable, page 45Antonyms: tautomorphemic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot occurring in the same morpheme; separated by a morpheme boundary.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*sḿ̥teros
- Proto-Hellenic*hə́teros
- Ancient Greekἕτερος (héteros)
- Englishhetero-
- Englishmorphemic
- Englishheteromorphemic
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with heteromorphemic
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