Questions tagged [affixes]
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Are there any class-changing prefixes in English?
Whenever I do a Google search about affixes, I find information like 'Prefixes usually do not change the class of the base word, but suffixes usually do change the class of the word' (UEfAP).
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Does the spelling of suffixes change in some cases like prefixes?
I know that prefixes never change the spelling of the stem. However, their spelling changes in some cases. For example:
well+come = welcome (not wellcome)
all+ways = always (not allways)
in+regular =...
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Do prefixes change the prounciation of stem?
I know some words which have suffixes and these suffixes change the pronunciation of the stem.
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sociopath sociopathy (you can check the pronunciations and you will realize that there are a ...
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Why do so many prefixes end with -o? (Visio, linguo) [closed]
At first I was wondering about “Deleuzoguattarian” but then I saw the Wiktionary list: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_prefixes which is quite striking.
The answers in Origin of ...
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What does the -mate suffix mean and where does it come from?
What does the suffix "-mate" mean? It makes a word into a verb, like with automate or decimate, but does it actually have a meaning? Is it perhaps Greek for "to make" or something?
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Hyphen between 2 words when prefix is in front of the 2 words
What's the correct way to put a prefix in front of something that's 2 or more words?
Pre-Neolithic Revolution or pre-Neolithic-Revolution
Pro-affirmative action or pro-affirmative-action
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"beginning" is to "prefix" as "end" is to "suffix" as "middle" is to... what?
The word "prefix" describes something affixed to the beginning of a word and the word "suffix" describes something affixed to the end of a word. What is the analog of these for ...
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Plural affix in the Oxford English Dictionary
I cannot find an entry for the plural affix in the OED (-es, -s , 's, s), unlike say for -en.
Also for -ed we have : -ed, suffix1, -ed, suffix2, -d, -t, suffix1, -t, suffix2, etc.
What are the ...
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Do all "prefixes" can be use as "combining forms" or just some of them can be?
I wonder if all English prefixes can be used as "combining forms" or just some of them can be play role as "prefix" and combine with other words or affixes to form "compound forms". e.g "Chron-" ...
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Determing the lexical category of a word based on the affixes attached
I am currently taking a Linguistics course and am learning about affixes. Through reading the textbook and following the lectures, I have realized that certain prefixes and suffixes are attached to ...
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Are morphemes commonly found at the end of words considered suffixes?
Are morphemes commonly found at the end of words considered suffixes?
For example: "erate", found at the end of words like accelerate, operate, refrigerate, considerate, nonliterate, etc.
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Latin/Greek morpheme meaning 'fundamental'?
Is there a Latin or Greek prefix or suffix out there that can be added to a word to make it mean the fundamental from which everything is derived?
Here's an example. You've got linguistics, that is ...
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Clitics vs. Inflectional Affix
Zwicky and Pullum (1983: 507) state that "n't cannot be attached to words containing simple clitics ['s/'ve], although the simple clitic 've can do so." As such, they don't think (1) is acceptable:
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If we divide 'withdrawal' into prefix, root, and suffix; how will it be?
Like when we say un-happi-ness (prefix, root, and suffix), how can we divide withdrawal?
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“passf***ingport” is it a bad use of interjection?
I was just having a little conversation with a few friends, and I used the word ‘passfuckingport’ out of nowhere. I am not sure what it sparked - my Western friends where alright with it, but one of ...
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Which suffix is in the word "precede": -ede or -cede?
Which suffix is in the word "precede": -ede or -cede?
I don't have an idea whether -ede or -cede is suffix in the words like precede, intercede, etc.
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What do you call a word with affixes? [closed]
Is it an affixed word? Affixated word? Affixation results in a ______?
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If mono means 'one' and poly means 'many' what would be a prefix for none?
If I wanted a word that indicated the absence of a property, like how 'inorganic' means 'not containing carbon,' what prefix might I use to indicate that?
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Lexis: How to derive new words by applying affixes to old ones? [closed]
At university I learned the process and some of the details of how to
derive new words from old ones using prefixes and suffixes, and how this
process makes words change their part of speech, but I ...
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A possessive affix for words ending in 've'?
I was playing with my spell-checker, and decided to download up-to-date English (British) dictionaries from there.
One of the files that is essential for spell-checkers, in addition to the .dic files ...
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The meaning of the word "hemophilia" [closed]
In medical terminology, words are often combined of Greek and Latin roots and affixes. And we can recognize the meaning of a word by knowing the meaning of the prefix, the root and the suffix. The ...
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Lexo-philosophical possibilities of the 'in'finite
Can anybody think of a word meaning infinite that isn't a combination of a negative prefix or suffix and a word meaning some sort of bound, such as limitless, endless, or unlimited? I haven't been ...
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Is Cess a Prefix or a Suffix?
My question concerns the following line on wikipedia page the word about Cess.
In colonial India it was applied, with a qualifying prefix, to
any taxation, such as irrigation-cess, educational-...
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Words ending in -ht, words ending in -th [duplicate]
Look at the endings of the following words:
blight, bought, breadth, brought, caught, delight, depth, fifth, fought, fourth, fright, freight, height, light, plight, taught, thought, width, ...
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In word construction, is there an affix order?
Does English have classes of prefixes and suffixes like it does adjectives, and if so, how are they usually ordered?
For example, adjectives usually go in this order (or something like it):
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Expectaltee: A person who expects something
The word of the day:
† expectaltee, n.
Obs. rare. A person who expects something. [OED]
You might ask how on the earth expectaltee is a word. Well, apparently it is a word but the origin is ...
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What is the need of an invisible affix?
When nothing means something:
In morpheme-based morphology, a null morpheme is a morpheme that is realized by a phonologically null affix (an empty string of phonological segments). In simpler ...
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Why does 'continual' involve interruption, and 'continuous' none ?
Source: Continuous indicates duration without interruption. ...
Continual indicates duration that continues over a long period of time, but with intervals of interruption. ...
The adverbs continuously ...
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Terminology for a word containing a prefix/suffix or neither
Does terminology exist for discriminating between words which do/don't contain a prefix/suffix?
How could I describe this difference in the synonyms 'discontinue' and 'stop'? Here, 'dis' is a prefix ...
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Are there English affixes for left/right?
Is there an affix that means left (right)? E.g. Imagine it was the prefix lef-. We'd be able to generate the following words.
lefcars (cars in which the steering wheel is on the left-hand side)
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Is "unmissable" a valid word?
I noticed an advert on TV advertising "unmissable" shows coming up. MS Word marks it as a spelling mistake, but the Mac OS is OK with it.
I don't particularly like it.
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Is it right or wrong to use forms of words that aren't in any dictionaries? [closed]
I want to use the word ataractically in a formal piece of writing. A derived form of ataraxia, I'd like to use it in a sentence like this:
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What is the difference between a "prefix" and a "combining form"?
According to ODO, mini- is classified as a combining form. How exactly is this different from a prefix (or an affix, in general)? Can combining forms also be prefixes?
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Synonyms for "extra-"
I'm looking for prefixes similar to extra- in the sense of 'outside of'. I'm attaching it to "mathematical" and in its context "extra-mathematical" or "extramathematical" can be misread as "very ...
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Is “-th” still a productive suffix in English?
The main question here is whether using -(e)th to create ordinals out of cardinals1 is still considered a productive suffix in English. Is it?
If so, then does it matter whether we are in a formal ...
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What is the adverbial form of “communicational”?
I tried communicationally, but the Free Dictionary doesn’t find it to be a word.
What I am trying to express is that someone is communicationally challenged, basically meaning they can’t communicate ...
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"-ic versus -ical" what's the difference in meaning between adjectives ending in -ic or -ical? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is it “geometric” but “theoretical”?
“Ironic” vs. “ironical”
“Comic” vs. “comical”
“Historic” vs. “historical”
What's the difference for instance between ironic/...
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