agglutinative
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This frugality, its most basic trait, is then tempered by its second most basic trait, its agglutinative nature—the construction of words by the incessant addition of prefixes and suffixes to the roots.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2016
One day, discussing Turkish, he asked a visitor if he knew what an agglutinative language was.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2012
Their absence, however, is readily explained by the persistence of the agglutinative principle, which renders them unnecessary.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
There was a very good reason why the Turanian languages should have remained in this second or agglutinative stage.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
It is syllabic agglutinative, that is, the word inflections are made up by adding syllables to the root word that is never lost.
From Heathen Master Filcsik by Kálmán Mikszáth
