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Suppletion

In linguistics and etymology, suppletion is traditionally understood as the use of one word as the inflected form of another word when the two words are not cognates. For those learning a language, suppletive forms will be seen as "irregular" or even "highly irregular". For example, go:went is a suppletive paradigm, because go and went are not…

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Irregularity and suppletion

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Suppletion

Nodes73
Edges72
Triples33
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027397
Components1

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Suppletion

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related to Russian · 12
Suppletion → Czech, In, In Russian, It, Macedonian, Orthodox Church, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, The, This
related to Weak suppletion · 6
Suppletion → Alternations, English, Even, For, In, The
related to Semantic relations · 5
Suppletion → English, Fatherly, In, Likewise, The
related to Generalizations · 2
Suppletion → Strictly, The
related to External links · 1
Suppletion → Surrey Suppletion Database

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form suppletive forms english verb proto-indo-european irregular old derived example different go used languages also latin irish plural verbs modern

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
afinstance ofto go’ has a variety of suppletive forms0.80text
Finnish.An incomplete suppletion exists in English with the plural of personinstance ofas well as in some non-Indo-European languages0.80text
んinstance ofother auxiliaries0.80text
ありません do not necessarily.あらinstance ofother auxiliaries0.80text
father/paternal or cow/bovine are also referred to as collateral adjectivesinstance ofsuch as noun/verb.English noun/adjective pairs0.80text
go/went.Such casesinstance ofin much the same way as truly suppletive pairs0.80text
which were traditionally simply labelledinstance ofin much the same way as truly suppletive pairs0.80text
Suppletionrelated to External linksSurrey Suppletion Database0.60section
Suppletionrelated to GeneralizationsStrictly0.60section
Suppletionrelated to GeneralizationsThe0.60section
Suppletionrelated to RussianIn Russian0.60section
Suppletionrelated to RussianThe0.60section

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