The term 'suppletion' implies that a gap in the paradigm was filled by a form 'supplied' by a different paradigm. For those learning a language, suppletive forms will be seen as 'irregular' or even 'highly irregular'. In linguistics and etymology, suppletion is traditionally understood as the use of one word as the inflected form of another word when the two words are not cognate. A word having inflected forms from multiple unrelated stems
