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Suppletion is a morphological change that completely changes a word. These changes cannot be explained by rules because the new forms of the word have different roots. An example of suppletion in English would be “went” and “go.”
References
Crystal, David, and David Crystal. The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin, 1999.
Matthews, P. H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
