suppletion

noun

The use of an unrelated form to complete a paradigm, as the past tense went of the verb go, goes, going, gone.

noun

The supplying of something lacking.

noun

The use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking, e.g. using “to be able” as the infinitive of “can”, or “better” as the comparative of “good”.

noun

More loosely, use of unrelated (or distantly related) words for semantically related words which may not share the same lexical category, such as father/paternal or cow/bovine.