Inglise leksikoloogia
suffix)
Prefix prefix plus stem (nt, verbs: to enrich, disagree; adj: antiwar, uneasy; noun: exwife) There are
25 prefixes that change the word to a different part of speech (nt, to debus to get off the bus)
Suffixation stem plus suffix (nt, hood plus child is childhood, friendship, readyness, government).
New forming suffixes (-ance, -dom, -ee, -er, -ing, -ness)
Adj forming suffixes(suit-able, tempora-ry, beauti-ful, penny-less, famou-s)
numeral forming suffixes(four-teen, four-ty, fif-th)
Adverb forming suffixes(slow-ly, home-wards)
Affixes are dead they are no longer felt as part of words(nt, dea-d, sai-l) and living (easyly
recognized). Living affixes are non-productive (not used today but yet we may recognize them(nt,
some-handsome, hood-childhood) and productive that are used at present (nt, de, re pre, non, un).
Affixes are native and borrowed