infixes

This is its narrow and exact meaning; if you start tacking on all the legitimate suffixes and infixes, then, as Mark Twain said of the German Schlag and Zug, there is probably nothing whatever that it does not mean.

The blue haze of distance superversive 2006

Unique in the English language as one of the few ‘infixes’ as opposed to prefix or suffix.

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As you probably know, the aorist vs present root is often contrasted by suffixes/infixes.

Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending 2007

Other infixes include re-donk-u-lous, which is already in use, at least among people I am interested in.

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Another story similar to "yeah, right", but with no names attached: Lecturer says, "The English language has examples of suffixes and prefixes, but no examples of infixes, even though these are not uncommon in other languages."

languagehat.com: SIDNEY MORGENBESSER. 2004

It is calculated that the whole number of tenses or shades of meaning which a Mpongwe radical verb may be made to express, with the aid of its auxiliary particles, augmentatives, and negatives — prefixes, infixes, and suffixes — is between twelve and fifteen hundred, worse than an Arabic triliteral.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The ray which once might have illuminated them, like the mild radiance of the day, now pierces them like lightning, -- a fierce and fatal fire, that, without injury to the external parts, infixes a burning torment at the heart.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

They may be grouped into six main types: word order; composition; affixation, including the use of prefixes, suffixes, and infixes; internal modification of the radical or grammatical element, whether this affects a vowel or a consonant; reduplication; and accentual differences, whether dynamic (stress) or tonal (pitch).

Chapter 4. Form in Language: Grammatical Processes 1921

There is clearly a world of difference between a prefixing language like Cambodgian, which limits itself, so far as its prefixes (and infixes) are concerned, to the expression of derivational concepts, and the Bantu languages, in which the prefixed elements have a far-reaching significance as symbols of syntactic relations.

Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure 1921

It is calculated that the whole number of tenses or shades of meaning which a Mpongwe radical verb may be made to express, with the aid of its auxiliary particles, augmentatives, and negatives -- prefixes, infixes, and suffixes -- is between twelve and fifteen hundred, worse than an Arabic triliteral.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855