suppletion
noun /səˈpliːʃn/
/səˈpliːʃn/
[uncountable] (linguistics- the use of a word as a particular form of a verb when the word is not related to the main form of the verb, for example ‘went’ as the past tense of ‘go’
不规则词形屈折,异干互补(如 went 作为 go 的过去式) 词源Middle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin suppletio(n-), from supplere ‘fill up, make full’, from sub- ‘from below’ + plere ‘fill’.