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suppletion
"The occurrence of an unrelated form to fill a gap in a conjugation (e.g.
went
as the past tense of
go
)", Middle English: from
Old French
, from
medieval Latin
suppletio(n-
), from
supplere
'fill up, make full' (see
supply
1
).