Morphologize

Quick meaning: Morphologize is a verb meaning (transitive, uncommon) To make (something) morphological (structural).

Meaning

(transitive, uncommon) To make (something) morphological (structural).

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, linguistic morphology) To become, or cause (e.g. a phonetic feature) to become, (re)interpreted morphologically.
2. (ambitransitive, linguistic morphology) To decompose into morphemes (as).

Example Sentences

In the word chlekʼwnts 'he broiled it (salmon)' which morphologizes as /č - lekʼʷ - ənts/ 'on - piece - 3.s.sub.3.s.obj.TRANS.-PAST', we have the processual 'pierce' as trajector, […]

[…] and, moreover, it is subject to syntagmatic segmental processes which can morphologize the prosodic accent location (vowel lengthening as in the first three examples and rearticulation of the secondary stressed vowel as in the fourth).

By morphologizing the tribade, anatomy paradoxically moves her closer to home: the erotic excess that was attributed to foreign women now can be found on the Christian bodies of "Lasses" and "young Wenches" who handle themselves as well as each other.

Word Forms

• morphologizes
• morphologizing
• morphologized

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include morphemize, morph, morphinize, metamorphize, nominalize, zoomorphise.

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