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affixEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Borrowed from Latin affixus, perfect passive participle of affigere (from ad- + figere). By surface analysis, af- + fix.
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Is -ist part of the ancestry of etymology itself?
No. -ist creates the English person-label etymologist; the base etymology has its own older French, Latin, and Greek ancestry.
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Is the -red in hatred the color red?
No. Middle English -rede / -reden continues Old English -ræden, a suffixal or affixoid element denoting state, condition, or quality.
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