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

The Basque is an agglutinative idiom, and must be placed, in a morphological point of view, between the Finnic family, which is simply incorporating, and the North American incorporating and polysynthetic families.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth

They are less completely inflected than the Finnish languages and more thoroughly agglutinative in the strict sense.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

There was a very good reason why the Turanian languages should have remained in this second or agglutinative stage.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max