ambifix

English

Etymology

From ambi- +‎ -fix.

Noun

ambifix (plural ambifixes)

  1. (computing) A string of characters used for both prefix and suffix.
  2. (linguistics) A bound morpheme that can be used either as a prefix or suffix.
  3. (linguistics) A circumfix.

Verb

ambifix (third-person singular simple present ambifixes, present participle ambifixing, simple past and past participle ambifixed)

  1. (grammar) To affix an ambifix to (a word).
    • 1966, Universals of Language‎[1]:
      Examples of such other methods are intercalation, as in Semitic, and what might be called ambifixing, where an affix has two parts, one of which precedes the entire root, while the other follows.
    • 2008, Anderson, Gregory D. S, The Munda Languages‎[2]:
      These markers are suffixed, prefixed, infixed and even at times ambifixed.
    • 2017, Baerman, Matthew, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Inflection‎[3]:
      As mentioned above, all verbs distinguish dual from non-dual forms; for ambifixing verbs this is encoded on a post-root ‘thematic’ which combines information about dual vs. non-dual and TAM […]
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