derivational

/dˌɛɹɪvˈeɪʃənəl/

[adjective]

derivational

[ADJECTIVE]

characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base

antonyms : inflectional

Examples

1. You add on another derivational ending to get, unfortunate and then you add on a final derivational ending, ly, to turn into an adverb and you get, unfortunately.

2. You add on another derivational ending to get, unfortunate and then you add on a final derivational ending, ly, to turn into an adverb and you get, unfortunately.

3. And that's especially true in a lot of languages where they have a lot of different word forms that represent different derivational morphologies, that's sort of relationships where you sort of have causatives or possessives and other things.

4. So big words would be divided up into their individual morphemes, so if you had a word like unfortunately, so if it has a root of fortune and then you add on the derivational ending ate to get fortunate.