bimorphemic
adjective
languagespecializeduk/ˌbaɪ.mɔːˈfiː.mɪk/us/ˌbaɪ.mɔːrˈfiː.mɪk/having twomorphemes(= thesmallestunitoflanguagethat hasitsownmeaning, either a word or apartof a word):
Somechildrenaretaughttospellby having themseparatethemorphemesof a bimorphemic word and then having themspelleachpart.
"Player" is bimorphemic since it has twomorphemes, "play" and "-er".
Compare
monomorphemic
- The words weremarkedfor whether they were monomorphemic or bimorphemic (e. g. "sock" vs. "boys").
- Bimorphemicclustersincludepastformssuch as "missed".
Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
- -athon
- -ative
- -ville
- agglutinate
- agglutinative
- analytic
- combining form
- contraction
- derivative
- ism
- libfix
- monomorphemic
- morphological
- morphology
- multisyllabic
- suffix
- there's
- trigraph
- trisyllabic
- trisyllable