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

The Basque is an agglutinative idiom, and must be placed, in a morphological point of view, between the Finnic family, which is simply incorporating, and the North American incorporating and polysynthetic families.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth

For they alone instinctively divined the new spirit of the age, which may be termed co-operative and agglutinative.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris

The inventors of the cuneiform system of writing had been a people who preceded the Semites in the occupation of Babylonia, and who spoke an agglutinative language utterly different from that of their Semitic successors.

From Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)