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Bound morpheme

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  1. 1
    A morpheme that can only occur when bound to a root morpheme. For example: cran- (as in cranberry), -ed, -ing, -ly.
  2. 2
    a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; e.g. an ‘-s’ at the end of plural nouns wordnet

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