Associations to the word «Suppletion»
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Wiktionary
SUPPLETION, noun. The supplying of something lacking.
SUPPLETION, noun. (grammar) The use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking, e.g. using “to be able” as the infinitive of “can”, or “better” as the comparative of “good”.
SUPPLETION, noun. (grammar) More loosely, use of unrelated (or distantly related) words for semantically related words which may not share the same lexical category, such as father/paternal or cow/bovine.
Wise words
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as
effective as a rightly timed pause.