liitttyviin
Liitttyviin is a linguistic term describing a morphological fusion process in which two affixes attach to a word stem and merge into a single morpheme that encodes the meanings of both affixes. The concept is discussed in typology and is sometimes used in speculative fiction and conlang design to illustrate how languages can compress grammatical information.
Etymology: The term is a neologism formed from a hypothetical root meaning “to join” combined with a
Characteristics: Liitttyviin morphemes arise from sequential affixation followed by phonological reduction, producing a single phonological unit.
Example: In a constructed language, a verb stem tir- meaning “to go” may take two affixes, -na
Significance: Liitttyviin highlights possibilities for morphosyntactic compression and serves as a useful concept in language construction