👉 In the context of linguistics and comparative morphology, a "vernicle" is a morphological category or type of word that appears in a sentence but has no specific meaning. These words are often used to indicate the grammatical position of a verb, such as a preposition or conjunction, or to express a particular aspect of an object or thing. For example, in English, "be" and "is" both form verbs, but they differ in their grammatical role: "is"