fossilized
suomi-englanti sanakirjafossilized englannista suomeksi
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Verbi
fossilized englanniksi
(infl of)
In a state of fossilization; preserved in rock
having become a fossil: no longer productive
A (glossary) in a language is a word which has fallen out of use except for in phrases: e.g. the English word ''fro'', used only in ''and fro''. A fossilized morpheme (e.g. a fossilized affix) is one which was once able to derive words, but which now only exists as a fixed component of words: e.g. the English abstract noun–forming suffix ''-th''.