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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

prefixhood en · NOUN

Etymology

From prefix + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state, condition, or qualification of being a prefix.
    • Thus, in OT, the prefixhood of in- is achieved through a constraint on output well-formedness, rather than being specified lexically. 2007, Paul V. De Lacy, The Cambridge handbook of phonology, page 459: