oligosynthetic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From oligo- +‎ synthetic.

Adjective[edit]

oligosynthetic (comparative more oligosynthetic, superlative most oligosynthetic)

  1. (linguistics) (of a language) using a relatively small number of morphemes which combine synthetically to form compound words.