ambifix

plural ambifixes

1. computingA string of characters used for both prefix and suffix.
2. human sciencesA bound morpheme that can be used either as a prefix or suffix.
3. human sciencesA circumfix.

present singular third person ambifixes · participle present ambifixing · participle past ambifixed · past ambifixed

1. grammarTo affix an ambifix to (a word).

   These markers are suffixed, prefixed, infixed and even at times ambifixed.

   2008, Anderson, Gregory D. S, The Munda Languages

   2 more examples

   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.

   1966, Universals of Language

   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[…]

   2017, Baerman, Matthew, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Inflection