confixation

plural confixations

1. rareuncountableusuallyhuman sciencesWord formation involving a confix.

   The French footing is a confixation combining the element foot- in football with the productive French suffix -ing; […]

   1981, Proceedings: 7th International Colloquium of Functional Linguistics, St. Andrews, 1-6 September 1980, St Andrews, Fife: International Society of Functional Linguistics, →OCLC, page 117

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   Besides derivation, we find confixation, where none of the monemes involved exist outside of synthemes: carnivore, for instance, is a confixative.

   1985, André Martinet, “Grammatical Phrases and Lexical Phrases”, in Adam Makkai, Alan K. Melby, editors, Linguistics and Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Rulon S. Wells (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV – Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 42), Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, part III (Syntax and Beyond), page 135

   The typology of combinatory word-formation presented here (see Hoppe, et al. 1987: 442–44) allows for the inclusion of confixation alongside composition and derivation and hence for neo-Classical combinations, essential to which is a confix, especially in combination with another confix.

   1994, L[aurie] Bauer, “Word-formation: Neo-Classical Combinations”, in R[onald] E[aton] Asher, J[ohn] M. Y. Simpson, editors, The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Oxford, Oxfordshire; […]: Pergamon Press, →ISBN, page 5027, column 1