agglutinate

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"Gluten" is just latin for "glue" hence agglutinate, glue, etc.

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Quick take

string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)

Meaning at a glance

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verb

string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)

verb

clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.

adjective

united as if by glue

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for agglutinate.

verb

string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)

verb

clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.

adjective

united as if by glue

Example sentences

"Gluten" is just latin for "glue" hence agglutinate, glue, etc.

In an agglutinate language you could signal this by putting a prefix like "John hit Sallyum" or "Sallyum hit John" would be parsed the same.

It just feels great, especially the way words can agglutinate to form comically long words, while still transporting meaning.

Or consider the agglutinated shells of certain amoebae[2].

German, having maintained more of its agglutinate "Germanic" roots than English over the centuries, has a fantastic morphological system for new word formation.

In particular, there seem to be a lot of people ignoring Truth #5: It is always possible to agglutinate multiple separate problems\n into a single complex interdependent solution.

I've read that the key skill in understanding Turkish is to be able to de-agglutinate a word into its constituents in real time as you hear it, and that this skill just 'clicks in' at a certain point as you become more proficient.