suppletion

linguistic process in which inflections of etymologically unrelated stems come to be treated as the inflected forms of the same lexeme
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suppletion

Summary

suppletion is a derivation method[1]. suppletion draws 64 Wikipedia views per month (derivation_method category, ranking #2 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • suppletion's instance of is recorded as derivation method[3].
  • suppletion's subclass of is recorded as derivation[4].
  • suppletion's subclass of is recorded as connection[5].
  • suppletion's subclass of is recorded as language change[6].
  • suppletion's subclass of is recorded as replacement[7].
  • suppletion's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0mh22[8].
  • suppletion's facet of is recorded as morphology[9].
  • suppletion's facet of is recorded as etymology science[10].
  • suppletion's has effect is recorded as irregular lexeme[11].
  • suppletion's Quora topic ID is recorded as Suppletion[12].
  • suppletion's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778617226[13].

Why It Matters

suppletion draws 64 Wikipedia views per month (derivation_method category, ranking #2 of 3).[2] suppletion has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] suppletion is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). suppletion. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/suppletion
MLA “suppletion.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/suppletion.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_suppletion_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{suppletion}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/suppletion}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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