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Meaning of "allomorph" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ALLOMORPH

allomorph  [ˈæləˌmɔːf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALLOMORPH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Allomorph is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ALLOMORPH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Allomorph

In linguistics, an allomorph is a variant form of a morpheme. The concept occurs when a unit of meaning can vary in sound without changing meaning. The term allomorph explains the comprehension of phonological variations for specific morphemes.

Definition of allomorph in the English dictionary

The definition of allomorph in the dictionary is any of the phonological representations of a single morpheme. For example, the final and sounds of bets and beds are allomorphs of the English noun-plural morpheme. Other definition of allomorph is any of two or more different crystalline forms of a chemical compound, such as a mineral.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ALLOMORPH


allelomorph
əˈliːləˌmɔːf
anthropomorph
ˈænθrəpəˌmɔːf
ectomorph
ˈɛktəʊˌmɔːf
enantiomorph
ɛnˈæntɪəˌmɔːf
endomorph
ˈɛndəʊˌmɔːf
ergatandromorph
ˌɜːɡəˈtændrəˌmɔːf
ergatomorph
ˈɜːɡətəˌmɔːf
homeomorph
ˈhɒmɪəˌmɔːf
homoeomorph
ˈhɒmɪəˌmɔːf
homomorph
ˈhɒməˌmɔːf
hypomorph
ˈhaɪpəˌmɔːf
isomorph
ˈaɪsəʊˌmɔːf
lagomorph
ˈlæɡəʊˌmɔːf
mesomorph
ˈmɛsəʊˌmɔːf
ophiomorph
ˈɒfɪəˌmɔːf
paramorph
ˈpærəˌmɔːf
perimorph
ˈpɛrɪˌmɔːf
polymorph
ˈpɒlɪˌmɔːf
pseudomorph
ˈsjuːdəʊˌmɔːf
skeuomorph
ˈskjuːəˌmɔːf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALLOMORPH

allograft
allograph
allographic
alloiostrophos
allomeric
allomerism
allomerous
allometric
allometry
allomone
allomorphic
allomorphism
allonge
allonym
allopath
allopathic
allopathically
allopathist
allopathy
allopatric

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALLOMORPH

bimorph
dimorph
gynandromorph
hystricomorph
morph
neomorph
ornithomorph
pythonomorph
rhizomorph
theriomorph
trimorph
xeromorph
zoomorph

Synonyms and antonyms of allomorph in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «allomorph» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ALLOMORPH

Find out the translation of allomorph to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of allomorph from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «allomorph» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

allomorph
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

allomorph
570 millions of speakers

English

allomorph
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

allomorph
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

allomorph
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

алломорф
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

alomorfa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

allomorph
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

allomorphe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Allomorph
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Allomorph
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

allomorph
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

allomorph
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Allomorph
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

allomorph
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாற்றுருபு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अलोमोर्फ़
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

alomorf
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

allomorfo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

allomorph
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

алломорф
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

allomorph
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

allomorph
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

allomorph
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

-allomorfen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

allomorph
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of allomorph

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALLOMORPH»

The term «allomorph» is normally little used and occupies the 145.331 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ALLOMORPH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «allomorph» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «allomorph» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about allomorph

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALLOMORPH»

Discover the use of allomorph in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to allomorph and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Markedness: The Evaluative Superstructure of Language
Since -tion only occurs with roots ending in grave segments, we consider it to be a marked suffix allomorph, in contrast to the allomorph -ation, which occurs generally. A restricted allomorph such as -tion may be treated as the conceptually  ...
Edwin L. Battistella, 1990
2
Development of Orthographic Knowledge and the Foundations of ...
TABLE 9.1 Nonsense Words and Their Morphological Ending Condition Plural Fomts gan-gans lz/ allomorph gud-guds lz/ allomorph sar-sars lz/ allomorph pif- pifs ls/ allomorph lat-lats ls/ allomorph pake-pakes ls/ allomorph tarch-tarches loz/  ...
Shane Templeton, Donald R. Bear, 2013
3
A Grammar of Jamul Tipay
(89) llyap 'to be hot, burn (intrans)' — > 'iillyap 'to be hot (weather)' (- 77) nemii 'to be angry' — > niimii 'to be mean, ornery, uncooperative' (//- allomorph of 7/-) shemap 'to dream' — > shiimaap 'to be blind' (//- allomorph of 77-, ablaut) Stative  ...
Bernard Comrie, Amy Miller, George Bossong, 2001
4
Readings in Linguistics I & II
(3) is arbitrary because it assigns to something that isn't there phonemically — something that is 'there' only in the fact that it calls for a phonemically distinct allomorph of the accompanying morpheme — a meaning which would more naturally ...
Eric P. Hamp, 1995
5
The Blackwell companion to phonology. 4. Phonological interfaces
with processes like allomorph selection occurring according to the well- formedness principles of one level, but subsequently obscured by the operations of a later level. However, monostratal (or globalist) models, which allow information from ...
Marc van Oostendorp, 2011
6
Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa
in (18) would then remain visible to the syntax in order to block the insertion of the ndf allomorph postlexically. It might be claimed that the H tone allomorph only associates to a prefix which is adjacent to the noun root, but as shown by the ...
Ian Maddieson, Thomas J. Hinnebusch, 1998
7
Units of Linguistic Morphology: Morpheme, Clitic, Allomorph, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Books, LLC, General Books LLC, 2010
8
A Grammar and Dictionary of Zaiwa (2 Vols.)
the allomorph <si1-> ofthe continuous clause marker <si1- ~ si11 ~ siq1> 'still' The allomorph <si1-> of the continuous clause marker <si1- ~ si11 ~ siq1> is used in the same way as the allomorph <siq1>, except that it is prefixed to certain  ...
Anton Lustig, 2010
9
Studies on German-language Islands
For a coalescence structure as in a. to be realized, the voice value of the first segment of the root (or, in another possible coalescence candidate bisn  bist, the voice value of the default allomorph) has to be changed. This change, however ...
Michael T. Putnam, 2011
10
Localism Versus Globalism in Morphology and Phonology
Perfect allomorph: -u with light Root [monu]hı ̄i b. Perfect allomorph: -s with heavy Root *[au]guhı ̄i (trapping) [aug]hsı ̄i According to the globalist theory advanced by Mester, the perfect morpheme has its allomorphy determined by the  ...
David Embick, 2010

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