"exwife" - 1 õppematerjal

Inglise leksikoloogia

b) root words have just a root (nt, car, post) c)compounds (liitsõnad) have 2 or more stems put together. Stems may be simple(nt, ice-cream, ice and cream are stems) d)compound derivatives -2 stems joined and an affix is added to them both (nt, kind-heart-ed) 8. Affixation Affixes are used to build new words and they have quite an abstract meaning (nt, mad-ness, ness is 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)