suffixoid

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suffix +‎ -oid, Coined by US etymologist and philologist Yakov Malkiel circa 1966.

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suffixoid (plural suffixoids)

  1. (linguistics) A wordfinal segment that has characteristics of both a free morpheme and a bound morpheme.

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