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Meaning of "suppletion" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SUPPLETION

From Medieval Latin supplētiō a completing, from Latin supplēre to supply1.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SUPPLETION

səˈpliːʃən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUPPLETION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Suppletion 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 SUPPLETION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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 cognate. For those learning a language, suppletive forms will be seen as "irregular" or even "highly irregular". The term "suppletion" implies that a gap in the paradigm was filled by a form "supplied" by a different paradigm. Instances of suppletion are overwhelmingly restricted to the most commonly used lexical items in a language.

Definition of suppletion in the English dictionary

The definition of suppletion in the dictionary is the use of an unrelated word to complete the otherwise defective paradigm of a given word, as for example the use of went for the past tense of go.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUPPLETION

accretion · Capetian · completion · concretion · deletion · Diocletian · Grecian · hypersecretion · incompletion · magnesian · noncompletion · obsoletion · Ossetian · Peloponnesian · Phoenician · repletion · Rhaetian · Rhodesian · secretion · Venetian

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUPPLETION

supple · supplejack · supplely · supplement · supplemental · supplementally · supplementaries · supplementarily · supplementary · supplementary angle · supplementary benefit · supplementary question · supplementation · supplementer · suppleness · suppletive · suppletorily · suppletory · Supplex · suppliable

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUPPLETION

accreditation · action · addition · administration · age of discretion · animation · application · association · attention · carburetion · depletion · discretion · excretion · hyperexcretion · incretion · indiscretion · internal secretion · neurosecretion · oversecretion · ozone depletion

Synonyms and antonyms of suppletion in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «suppletion» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SUPPLETION

Find out the translation of suppletion to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of suppletion from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «suppletion» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

suppletion
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

suppletion
570 millions of speakers
en

English

suppletion
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

suppletion
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

suppletion
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

suppletion
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

suppletion
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

সাপ্লিশান
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

supplétion
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pembekalan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Suppletion
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

suppletion
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

suppletion
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Suppletion
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

suppletion
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

suppletion
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

पूरक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

tamamlayıcı olmak
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

suppletion
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

uzupełniającej
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

suppletion
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

suppletion
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

suppletion
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

suppletie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

supple
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

suppletion
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of suppletion

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUPPLETION»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of suppletion
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «suppletion».

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

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPPLETION»

Discover the use of suppletion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to suppletion and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Suppletion in Verb Paradigms: Bits and Pieces of the Puzzle
This book examines stem change in verb paradigms, as in English go 'go.PRESENT' vs. went 'go.PAST', a phenomenon referred to as suppletion in current linguistic theory.
Ljuba N. Veselinova, 2006
2
Universals in Comparative Morphology: Suppletion, ...
The book strikes a unique balance between empirical breadth and theoretical detail.
Jonathan David Bobaljik, 2012
3
Aspects of the Theory of Morphology
The typology of suppletion Pairs of suppletive signs established by Definition 8.3 can be classified along two major axes: – TYPES OF SIGNS standing in a relation of suppletion. – DEGREE OF SUPPLETION between the two suppletive signs ...
David Beck, 2006
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Morphologie / Morphology. 1. Halbband
Typology of suppletion Pairs of suppletive signs can be classified (a) according to the types of signs standing in a relation of suppletion (3.1); (b) according to the degree of suppletion between two suppletive signs (3.2). 3.1. Types of suppletive  ...
Geert E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, 2000
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New Challenges in Typology: Broadening the Horizons and ...
Introduction The term suppletion refers to the phenomenon whereby regular semantic relations are encoded by unpredictable formal patterns.' Examples, which by now have become standard, include expressions of comparative and ...
Matti Miestamo, Bernhard Wälchli, 2007
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In Honor of Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference on ...
Langdon. Suppletion is one of a set of terms available to the linguist to conveniently label a category of facts of an irregular nature. The term is informative in that it immediately conveys in a general sense the type of irregularity encountered.
William Shipley, 1988
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Handbook of Word-Formation
This volume traces the many strands of study in the field of word formation that have developed since the seminal work of Marchand and Lees in the 1960s.
Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber, 2006
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Suppletion and Irregularities in Pronoun Systems
Comparison of pronoun systems in Jingulu and Yiram languages - Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru and Nungali; seeks typology through comparisons with irregular pronouns in European languages.
Neil Chadwick, 1980
9
Transformational Grammar: A First Course
In Dutch, the phenomenon of R Suppletion is more widespread and fully productive, so that in place of the ungrammatical *op het 'on it' or '*op dat 'on that', we find the obligatory suppletive R-variant er op 'there on'; likewise, in place of the *op ...
Andrew Radford, 2009
10
Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages: Selected Papers ...
GENDER AGREEMENT AND SUPPLETION IN FRENCH* JACQUES LAMARCHE Université du Québec à Montréal 0. Introduction A lot of research on the phonology of French has focused on the phonological aspects of the C/0 alternation ...
Karen T. Zagona, 1996

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUPPLETION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term suppletion is used in the context of the following news items.
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Dredging Mega Projects
... Maasvlakte 1 The first Maasvlakte extension at the Port of Rotterdam was built by a combination of dikes and sand suppletion reaching west into the North Sea ... «Marine Technology News, Jul 15»
2
Dutch island nearly lost at sea
The organization has devoted itself for years to sand suppletion, so that the sea can't have free range anymore. But no longer. “You have to accept things as they ... «NL Times, Feb 14»
3
Atherosclerosis Researcher Dr. Erik Stroes Joins AtheroNova's …
In the late nineties, he studied modulation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (co-factor suppletion, gene therapy) as a major topic for research, leading to the ... «PR Newswire, Oct 13»
4
How come the past of 'go' is 'went?'
Not only was he aware of the linguistic side of the problem but he also knew the technical term for this phenomenon, namely “suppletion.” One cannot say the ... «OUPblog, Jan 13»
5
Kivetés és betoldás
Tranel (1990) and Cǒté (2005) argue that liaison without nasalization involves suppletion rather than liaison in the usual sense.8 A similar, but less studied, ... «Nyelv és Tudomány, Apr 12»
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Ask The Expert
Answer: Weight gain is not a side effect of hormone suppletion. Water retention during the first weeks of therapy can be caused by estrogens. And water is also ... «hcp.obgyn.net, Nov 11»
REFERENCE
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