2011: Suppletive Roots for 'Good' Jun 17, 2020
Adjectives in English have very little in the way of morphology except perhaps from comparatives and superlatives, like 'fast-fast(er)-fast(est)'. This pattern is kept in some ways with 'good-better-best' but this is clearly more irregular, with suppletion. However, this is far from the only one like it; German has the extremely similar 'gut-besser-besten', and Latin has 'bonus-melior-optimus'. This is a widespread pattern, even when the particular words might be different, so if you know more, leave it in a comment.
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