prefixing

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of prefix
2. adjective Of a language, characterised by heavy use of prefixes to create grammatical forms; as opposed to suffixing.
3. noun The act by which something is prefixed.

Similar words

polysynthetic pseudolexical lexified pleonastic polysynthetical paragrammatical postradical parasynthetic phraseological paralexical

Often followed by

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