Morphology, word structure, stem and suffixes

Lexicology studies a word’s naming, that is lexical, meaning: the way a word names an object, quality or action. But besides its naming meaning, a word also has grammatical meaning. In olmalarni, “the fruit of the apple tree” is the naming meaning, while “plural” (-lar) and “accusative case” (-ni) are grammatical meanings. The means that express grammatical meanings are called grammatical forms. The branch that studies the grammatical meanings of words and the forms expressing them is morphology. The word comes from Greek morphe, “form”, and logos, “teaching”.