Allomorph

Definitions: Allomorph

Allomorph

Noun

1. Any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound: "calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite".

2. A variant phonological representation of a morpheme: "the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme".

Specialty Definitions: Allomorph

Domain	Definitions
Language	An element of the set of the alternative representations of the same morpheme. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. Syn:paramorph (obsolete); pseudomorph. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: Allomorph

In linguistics an allomorph is a variant of a morpheme. The meaning remains the same.

Example

The English plural morpheme for nouns has three allomorphs:

[z] day-s, pie-s, shampoo-s, piano-s, zebra-s
[s] map-s, lot-s, birth-s
[&z] ash-es, surprise-s, age-s, approach-es

(notation in SAMPA)

from: Iggy Roca and Wyn Johnson, a course in phonology, Blackwell, 1999; p. 621

Usage Frequency: Allomorph

"Allomorph" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Allomorph" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Expression: Allomorph

Modern Translations: Allomorph

Language		Translations for "allomorph"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		allomorf. (various references)

Farsi		واژگونه , واج گونه , تصاریف مختلف کلمه یافعل , صورمختلف زمان فعل . (various references)

French		allomorphe. (various references)

German		Allomorph. (various references)

Greek		αλλόμορφο. (various references)

Indonesian		alomorf. (various references)

Italian		allomorfo. (various references)

Pig Latin		allomorphay

Russian		алломорф алломорфный. (various references)

Spanish		alomorfo. (various references)

Turkish		alomorf, biçimbirimsel değişke. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Allomorph

Derivations
	Words beginning with "allomorph": allomorphic, allomorphism, allomorphisms, allomorphs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Allomorph" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Callimorpha. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Rhyming with "Allomorph"

Anagrams: Allomorph

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-h-l-l-m-o-o-p-r"
	-2 letters: rollmop.
	-3 letters: apollo, halloo, holloa, hoopla, mollah, moolah, morpho, oompah, pallor.
	-4 letters: hallo, holla, hollo, horal, loral, molal, molar, moola, moral, morph, oomph, orlop, parol, polar, promo, ralph.
	-5 letters: hall, halm, halo, harl, harm, harp, hoar, holm, holp, homo, hoop, hora, lamp, loam, loom, loop, mall, marl, mola, moll, mool, moor, mora, olla, opah.
	Words containing the letters "a-h-l-l-m-o-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: allomorphs.
	+2 letters: allelomorph, allomorphic.
	+3 letters: allelomorphs, allomorphism.
	+4 letters: allelomorphic, allomorphisms, morphological.
	+5 letters: allelomorphism, isomorphically, megasporophyll.
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