Timeline for Collective name for prefix and suffix of a word [closed]
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| Dec 31, 2013 at 2:00 | vote | accept | turtle | ||
| Dec 30, 2013 at 11:31 | history | closed | RegDwigнt | Not suitable for this site | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 11:31 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | The opening sentence of the Wikipedia article on prefix: "A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.". And the very first sentence of the Wikipedia article on suffix: "In linguistics, a suffix [...] is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.". | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 11:28 | history | edited | RegDwigнt |
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| Dec 30, 2013 at 10:59 | answer | added | Xion | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 3:40 | comment | added | Sam | not sure about a single word, but I believe an apt phrase would be the "grammarians' crucifix"! | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 2:37 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | If the prefix and suffix necessarily occur together, as in en-XXX-en, then together they act as a circumfix. Consider the circumfixed verbs enlighten, enliven, enhearten, enharden, enripen, enbiggen. In all these cases, the XXX is an adjective, and applying this particular circumfix to said adjective produces a verb that bestows that quality on something. | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 1:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/417469615741353984 | ||
| Dec 30, 2013 at 0:58 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 30, 2013 at 0:47 | answer | added | Frames Catherine White | timeline score: 23 | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 0:44 | answer | added | rosends | timeline score: 12 | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 0:41 | history | asked | turtle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |