allomorph

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  1. noun See paramorph.
  2. noun Any of the variant forms of a morpheme. For example, the phonetic (s) of cats (kăts), (z) of pigs (pĭgz), and (ĭz) horses (hôrˈsĭz) are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme.

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  1. allo- + morph(eme).

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  1. Greek ἂλλος, other, + μορφή, form.
 

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