In linguistics, free morphemes are morphemes that can stand alone, unlike bound morphemes, which occur only as parts of words. In the English sentence colorless green ideas sleep furiously, for example, color, green, idea, sleep and furious are all free morphemes, whereas -less, -s and -ly are all bound morphemes.

See also

• bound morpheme
• root morpheme

Linguistic morphology

Morfemenn distag | Frjálst myndan | 自由詞素