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confixation

confixation noun: word formation involving a confix.

Noun

confixation (usually uncountable, plural confixations)

  1. (rare, usually) Word formation involving a confix.
    • The French footing is a confixation combining the element foot- in football with the productive French suffix -ing; […]1981, Proceedings: 7th International Colloquium of Functional Linguistics, St. Andrews, 1-6 September 1980, St Andrews, Fife: International Society of Functional Linguistics, →OCLC, page 117
    • Besides derivation, we find confixation, where none of the monemes involved exist outside of synthemes: carnivore, for instance, is a confixative.1985, André Martinet, “Grammatical Phrases and Lexical Phrases”, in Adam Makkai, Alan K. Melby, editors, Linguistics and Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Rulon S. Wells (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory...

Forms of confixation

pluralconfixations

Origin of confixation

From confix + -ation. Compare Middle English confyxacyon (“the action of fixing (a volatile principle)”).

Questions about confixation

What does confixation mean?
Confixation means word formation involving a confix.
What part of speech is confixation?
Confixation is a noun.
What is the plural of confixation?
The plural of confixation is confixations.

Words near confixation in the dictionary

  1. confiting
  2. confits
  3. confiture
  4. confitures
  5. confix
  6. confixation
  7. confixations
  8. confixative
  9. confixed
  10. confixes
  11. confixing

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