disfixation

noun

disfixation

noun

/dɪsfɪkˈseɪʃən/

Etymology From disfix + -ation.

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Human sciences, Linguistic morphology, Linguistics, Morphology, Sciences Usually Word-formation involving a disfix; subtracting a morpheme from a word.

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