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Where does “morphemic” come from?

morphemic (English) comes from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem, from Latin im- — in.

morphemic (English): Of or relating to morphemics or to a morpheme

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to morphemics or to a morpheme

Ancestry of “morphemic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
2EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
3Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
4Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
5Spanishimagenimage
6Italianimmagineimage; imago
7Latinimāginem—
8Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
9Latinīn-—
10Latinîn—
11Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
12Proto-Italicenin
13Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “morphemic”

  • monomorphemic
  • bimorphemic
  • multimorphemic
  • tautomorphemic
  • morphemically
  • heteromorphemic
  • dimorphemic
  • trimorphemic
  • tautomorphemically
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