suffixive
English
Etymology
suffix + -ive
Adjective
suffixive (not comparable)
- (linguistics, dated) Forming words through the addition of a suffix or suffixes
- 2000, George Lang, Entwisted Tongues: Comparative Creole Literatures, →ISBN, page 216:
- The genius, in the French sense, of creole is its tendency to form phrases with a minimum of connectives, often through the use of suffixive combinations […]
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Synonyms
- suffixative
Related terms
- suffixation
- affixive
- prefixive