Morpheme
Laurel
Type
free base
Denotation
bay tree, evergreen shrub with aromatic lanceolate leaves and clusters of small yellowish-white flowers
Etymology
Middle English laurel, laurer, lorrer; Old French laurier, lorier; Latin laurus
Evidence
laurel, laureled, laureling, laurelled, laurelling, laurels
Notes
change from <r> to <l> by dissimilation
<l> need not double (but can), especially with inflectional suffixes because of the British spelling convention for unstressed final syllables that end in [əl]/[l̩]
