infix

UK /ɪnˈfɪks/ US /ɪnˈfɪks/
noun 4verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.

to infix a sting, spear, or dart

[…] in her eye I find A wonder, or a wondrous miracle, The shadow of myself form’d in her eye: Which being but the shadow of your son, Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow: I do protest I never loved myself Till now infixed I beheld myself Drawn in the flattering table of her eye.

2

To instill.

3

To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.

noun

1

An affix inserted inside a root, such as -ma- in English edumacation.

I am not pleased with one or two of the noun cases (they are too similar to others) and I want to change the way that the Focus category (see Section 3.5 of the grammar) is manifested (using word-order instead of an infix or other phonological marker). All in all, the language is structured almost exactly as I wanted.

2

A prefix that is not at the beginning of a word, such as the con- of reconcile, or a suffix that is not at the end of a word, such as the -al of nationality.

The infix position contains (pronominal) object markers, showing agreement with the object(s), which might be one or more noun phrases following the verb, or a foregoing or previously mentioned object marking.

[…] but the second example contravenes all the rules, as the negative infix should NEVER precede any Set 2 affix present in the complex.

3

A prefix that always occurs in the position immediately before the verb root, and which may in turn be preceded by other prefixes.

4

Synonym of interfix.

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