50 Examples of Morphemes and Lexemas

Morphemes and Lexemas

The morphemes They are combinations of letters that give a meaning, and are joined to form words. They form an intermediate point between letters (which have no meaning) and words (which do).

Two classes of morphemes are usually distinguished, where the definition is frequently confused and it is interpreted that a group is not effectively a morpheme:

• • Affixes. They form a different word and are added after (suffixes) or in front of the word (prefixes). For example: Supermarket(prefix), anarch (suffix).
  • Inflectional morphemes. They modify a word generating a small variation in terms of gender, number or person. For example: directorto (feminine inflectional morpheme), childyou (masculine and plural inflectional morpheme).

They are called simple words to those constituted by a single lexeme. For example: way, glass, life.

They are called compound words to those constituted by lexemes and morphemes, that is, those that have a suffix, a prefix or two simple words. For example: pre-registration, corkscrew, rethink.

Examples of morphemes

FLEXIVE MORPHEMS

1. -to. Refers to the female gender.

For example: friendto, altto, redto.

1. -or. Refers to the male gender.

For example:altor, come downor.

1. -s. Indicates plurality.

For example: persons, eyes, songs.

SUFFIXES

1. -archy. (suffix) Refers to forms of government.

For example: monarch, oligarch.

1. -cide, -cide (suffix). It refers to the act of killing.

For example: insectiacid, genocide.

1. –very. (suffix) Indicates superlative degrees.

For example: goodvery, altvery.

1. –ism. It refers to a political doctrine, religion, artistic current.

For example: budism, fascism, cubism.

1. -itis. (suffix) Indicates inflammation or other condition.

For example: artritis, gastritis.

1. –therapy. (suffix) Indicates ways of treating diseases.

For example: radiotherapy, musiciantherapy.

1. –lodge. (suffix) Means "science".

For example: immunelodge, psycholodge, ecolodge, geolodge.

PREFIXES

1. Ana-. (prefix) Indicates negation.

For example: toIt is not mine, analphabet, tocephalus, tomorpho.

1. car-. (prefix) Means "of oneself" or "by oneself".

For example: carnome, cardidact, carcritical, carmobile, carBush, cardestructive.

1. anti-. (prefix) Indicates disappointment or opposition.

For example: antiIt is not mine, antiSemite, anticlerical, antiendowed, antipruning.

1. bi- (prefix). It means "double" or "two".

For example: bibike, binario, bidirectional, bisexual.

1. co-. (prefix) Indicates participation or union.

For example: coAuthor, cooperate, cocourageous, coadjuvant.

1. hemi- (prefix). It means "half of something."

For example: hemisphere, hemicycle, hemiplejia.

1. hiccup- (prefix) Indicates shortage.

For example: hiccuptherm, hiccupthyroidism, hiccupcrita, hiccuptension, hiccupcratic.

1. i-, in-, im-. (prefixes) Indicate opposition or reverse meaning.

For example: inmortal, imbidder, iPortuguese, improbable, inmoral, inborn, ingenuo, ireadable, inmissing, ilegal.

1. intro-, intra- (prefix). It means "inward"

For example: introspill, intrawalls, intravenous, introduction.

1. Super- (suffix). Indicates superiority or excess.

For example: Supersonic, Superman, Supermarket, Supergifted.

Examples of lexemes

1. sports For example: sportstista, sportstive, sportstea.
2. histori- For example: historito, historiador, historicalco.
3. bread- For example: breadit was, breadgarnish, breadified.
4. sea- For example: seaintimate, seaino, seait is.
5. differ- For example: differentity, differto go, differstart, differgum.
6. fune- For example: funeral, funeralbre, funeweird.
7. blame- For example: blamear, blameto, blameable.
8. consum- For example: consumeor, consumeto go, consumeidor.
9. wash- For example: lavatorio, lavar, lavclothes.
10. notebook- For example: notebookito innotebookar, notebookyou.