"empty morph" meaning in All languages combined

See empty morph on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: empty morphs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} empty morph (plural empty morphs)
  1. (linguistic morphology) A morph with a surface phonetic realization but no meaning. Categories (topical): Linguistic morphology Related terms: empty morpheme

Inflected forms

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