Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words and forms a core part of linguistic study today.

• The term morphology is Greek and is a makeup of morph- meaning ‘shape, form’, and -ology which means ‘the study of something’.
• Morphology as a sub-discipline of linguistics was named for the first time in 1859 by the German linguist August Schleicherwho used the term for the study of the form of words.