1. the occurrence of an unrelated word being used as an inflected form of another word
Usage: linguistics

Examples

• The relationship between ‘go’ and ‘went’ is an example of suppletion in English.
• Suppletion occurs when ‘good,’ ‘better,’ and ‘best’ form a comparative series.
• The verb ‘be’ shows suppletion with forms like ‘am,’ ‘is,’ and ‘was.’
• Linguists study suppletion to understand irregular word formation patterns.
• French exhibits suppletion in the verb ‘aller’ with forms like ‘va’ and ‘ira.’
• Suppletion is common in pronouns, as seen in ‘I’ and ‘me.’
• The phenomenon of suppletion challenges traditional morphological analysis.