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English

Etymology

From morpho- +? -logy.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m???f?l?d?i/

Noun

morphology (countable and uncountable, plural morphologies)

1. (uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
   1. (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).

      • There are many ways to show that word structure is different from phrase and sentence structure. We will mention two here. First, free constituent order in syntax is common cross-linguistically; many languages lack fixed order of the kind that one finds in English. In morphology, on the other hand, order is always fixed. There is no such thing as free morpheme order. Even languages with wildly free word order, such as the Pama-Nyungan (Australian) language Warlpiri (Simpson 1991), have a fixed order of morphemes within the word. Second, syntactic and morphological patterns can differ within the same language. For example, note the difference in English in the positioning of head and complement between syntax and morphology.

   3. (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
   4. (geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
   5. (mathematics) Mathematical morphology.
2. (countable) The form and structure of something.
3. (countable) A description of the form and structure of something.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on morphology in linguistics.
• Category:Linguistic morphology

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Firn, from Alemannic German firn (“last year's”), from Old High German firni (“old”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *firnijaz, *fernaz (“foregoing, previous”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“forth, forward, across, through”); cognate with Old English fyrn (“former”), Old Norse forn (“old”), and Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (fairneis, “old”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /f??n/

Noun

firn (countable and uncountable, plural firns)

1. A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles and thus is made of numerous small icy grains, though it is not nearly as saturated with water as snow-cone slush is; can be hard or somewhat soft depending on recent and current weather conditions.

   Synonym: névé

Derived terms

• firnification

Translations

Further reading

• firn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• NIRF

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?rn]
• Hyphenation: firn

Noun

firn m inan

1. firn

Declension

Further reading

• firn in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• firn in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

German

Etymology

From Middle High German virne, from Old High German firni, from Proto-Germanic *fernaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f??n]

Adjective

firn (comparative firner, superlative am firnsten)

1. (wine) aged

Declension

Related terms

• Firn
• Firne

Further reading

• “firn” in Duden online
• “firn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “firn” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [firn]

Noun

firn m (genitive singular firnu, nominative plural firny, genitive plural firnov, declension pattern of dub)

1. firn

Declension

References

• firn in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk