Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences An affix consisting of a prefix and suffix attached simultaneously to the root.
As is demonstrated by m-as-ku, tens are derived from the confix m- ... -hu.2005, Elizabeth Zeitoun, “Tsou”, in The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, page 265:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, SciencesRare An affix which is not divided, and which does not divide a root: thus, a prefix, suffix, or interfix.
22. A PREFIX: a confix which precedes a root.1982, Igor Aleksandrovič Melʹčuk, Philip Luelsdorff, Towards a Language of Linguistics, page 84:
Obsolete To make firm; to fix in a particular place or state.
But Tuesday night last gone in's garden-house / He knew me as a wife. As this is true, / Let me in safety raise me from my knees; / Or else for ever be confixed here, / A marble monument!a. 1623, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure: