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Etymology
From suffix + -oid, Coined by US etymologist and philologist Yakov Malkiel circa 1966.
Noun
suffixoid (plural suffixoids)
- (linguistics) A wordfinal segment that has characteristics of both a free morpheme and a bound morpheme.
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