abstract:In linguistics and etymology, suppletion is traditionally understood as the use of one word as the inflected form of another word when the two words are not cognate. For those learning a language, suppletive forms will be seen as "irregular" or even "highly irregular".
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the use of an unrelated word to complete the otherwise defective paradigm of a given word, as for example the use of went for the past tense of go 互补