morphologize

Verb

1. To make (something) morphological (structural).
   • By morphologizing the tribade, anatomy paradoxically moves her closer to home: the erotic excess that was attributed to foreign women now can be found on the Christian bodies of "Lasses" and "young Wenches" who handle...
2. To become, or cause (e.g. a phonetic feature) to become, (re)interpreted morphologically.
   • […] and, moreover, it is subject to syntagmatic segmental processes which can morphologize the prosodic accent location (vowel lengthening as in the first three examples and rearticulation of the secondary stressed...
3. To decompose into morphemes (as).
   • In the word chlekʼwnts 'he broiled it (salmon)' which morphologizes as /č - lekʼʷ - ənts/ 'on - piece - 3.s.sub.3.s.obj.TRANS.-PAST', we have the processual 'pierce' as trajector, […] - 1993, Roy H. Ogawa, Gary B....