agglutinative

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This frugality, its most basic trait, is then tempered by its second most basic trait, its agglutinative nature—the construction of words by the incessant addition of prefixes and suffixes to the roots.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2016

One day, discussing Turkish, he asked a visitor if he knew what an agglutinative language was.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2012

They belong to the agglutinative stage of development, and are distinguished from other groups by the presence, in full development, of the principle of prefixed and affixed grammatical additions to the roots of words.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden

As long as in these sesquipedalian compounds, the significative root remains distinct, they belong to the agglutinative stage; as soon as it is absorbed by the terminations, they belong to the inflectional stage.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

The language was, in fact, one of the agglutinative dialects spoken in Elam, the native language of Susa itself being closely related to it.

From A Primer of Assyriology by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)