Wortbildung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- morphology noun The study of the form and structure of living things, or the form and structure themselves.
Senses
Wortbildung is used for these senses in English:
- morphology (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
- morphology (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
- word formation (linguistics) The formation of new words by the processes of derivation and composition.
morphology — full definition
- noun The study of the form and structure of living things, or the form and structure themselves.
- noun The branch of linguistics dealing with how words are built out of smaller meaningful units such as roots, prefixes and suffixes.
- noun The overall shape and arrangement of something, such as a landscape, a city or a material.