Suppletive

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  • adj. Inflected by substituting an unrelated form (for example, in English, the adjectival forms good, better, best).
  • adj. Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; suppletory.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Supplying deficiencies; supplementary.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Supplying; suppletory.
    • Word Usage
    "According to this theory, the PIE s-aorist was originally a specially inflected type of root aorist in which the 3 sg. active form, for reasons now lost within the prehistory of PIE, was built from a suppletive sigmatic stem with 'Narten' *ē : *e ablaut."
    Equivalent
    suppletory   
    Cross Reference
    suppletion   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    supplementary   
     
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