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circumfixations

circumfixations is the plural of circumfixation.

Meaning of circumfixation

Noun

circumfixation (usually uncountable, plural circumfixations)

  1. (usually) The morphological phenomenon of circumfixing.
    • As we have just seen, the encoding is quite versatile. In fact, it is not even limited to describing reduplicative patterns alone but can also handle infixations, circumfixations and truncations.1999 November 19, Markus Walther, “Alternative method: Lexical transducer plus intelligent copy module”, in One-Level Prosodic Morphology (Marburger Arbeiten zur Linguistik [Marburg Studies in...

Questions about circumfixations

What is circumfixations the plural of?
Circumfixations is the plural of circumfixation.

Words near circumfixations in the dictionary

  1. circumfila
  2. circumfilum
  3. circumfix
  4. circumfixal
  5. circumfixation
  6. circumfixations
  7. circumfixed
  8. circumfixes
  9. circumfixing
  10. circumflagellar
  11. circumflect

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