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afiksoido

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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From afikso (affix) +‎ -oido (similarity suffix).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [afiksoˈido]
  • Rhymes: -ido
  • Hyphenation: a‧fiks‧o‧i‧do

Noun

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afiksoido (accusative singular afiksoidon, plural afiksoidoj, accusative plural afiksoidojn)

  1. (grammar) a morpheme which resembles or is treated as an affix, but behaves as a root, in that its position within a word is predictable from Esperanto word-compounding rules (compare afikso)
    Among the official roots, the antaŭafiksoidoj are dis-, ek-, for-, mis-, re-, retro-; a few which derive from nouns (ĉef-, vir-), and prefixed prepositions
    Among the official roots, the postafiksoidoj are -ado, -aĵo, -eco, -ulo, -eg-, -et-, -um-, -ano, -aro, -ejo, -ero, -estro, -ido, -ilo, -ino, -ingo, -ismo, -isto, -ono, -ujo, -ebla, -ema, -enda, -inda, -obla, -ope, -igi, -iĝi, and the participial suffixes

Hyponyms

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