suppletive, suppletion: When different forms of a morpheme (i.e., its allomorphs) have no clear phonological relationship to each other, they are called suppletive allomorphs, and this phenomenon is called suppletion. For instance, the different forms of the verb "to be" in English (be, am, are, is, was, were) are suppletive. [Spanish: supletivo]
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