suppletive

suppletive
/seuh plee"tiv, sup"li tiv/, adj. Gram.
1. serving as an inflected form of a word with a totally different stem, as went, the suppletive past of go.
2. including one or more such forms: a suppletive paradigm.
3. characterized by the use of such forms: suppletive inflection.
[1810-20; < ML suppletivus, equiv. to L supplet(us) (ptp. of supplere to fill up; see SUPPLETION) + -ivus -IVE]

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