free morpheme

English

Noun

free morpheme (plural free morphemes)

1. (linguistic morphology) A morpheme that can carry meaning on its own, and does not require a prefix, suffix, or infix to give it meaning.

   Book is a free morpheme, but the -s on books is not, because -s carries no meaning until joined to a free morpheme.

Antonyms

• bound morpheme

Translations

type of morpheme

• Finnish: vapaa morfeemi
• French: morphème libre (fr) m
• German: freies Morphem (de) n
• Japanese: 自由形態素 (ja) (jiyū keitaiso)
• Polish: morfem leksykalny m
• Vietnamese: hình vị tự do

Further reading

• free morpheme, sil.org