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A property of a morpheme: the abstract form that the morpheme is postulated to have before any phonological rules have applied to it.

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abstract underlyingly morpheme
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Rhyming Words
orm corm worm form norm gorm dorm feorm storm enorm reform e form afform byform efform v form unform urform enform deworm
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