circumfixal en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English circumfix Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English circumfixal From circumfix + -al.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Serving as a circumfix.
First, a number of languages do not have a single negation morpheme but have a circumfixal morpheme.
1997, Ferdinand de Haan, The Interaction of Modality and Negation: