Circumfixation

//ˌsəːkəmfɪˈkseɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The morphological phenomenon of circumfixing. uncountable, usually

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From circum- + fixation.

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