Derivation vs Morpheme - What's the difference?
derivation | morpheme |
A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root.
The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
That from which a thing is derived.
That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
(mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
(medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
(linguistic morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".
As nouns the difference between derivation and morpheme
is that derivation is a leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source while morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".derivation
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(wikipedia morpheme)Noun
(en noun)- The word pigs'' consists of two morphemes : ''pig'' (a particular animal) and ''s'' (indication of the plural).
- The word werewolves''' consists of four morphemes: "''were''" (~ man), "''wolf''" (a particular animal), "''es " (plural), and " ' " (indicating possessive).