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

They are less completely inflected than the Finnish languages and more thoroughly agglutinative in the strict sense.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

This stage is best represented by the Turanian family of speech, and the languages belonging to it have generally been called agglutinative, from gluten, glue.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

The agglutinative type, however, yet remains, and its grammar shows a luxuriance of grammatical combination second only to Turkish and Hungarian.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max