Affixes used in 1930 Novial
Prefixes
- bo-: -in-law
- des-: direct opposite
- dis-: separation, dispersal
- ex-: late, former
- ko-: together
- mal-: badly, ill-
- mi-: half, partly
- mis-: mis-, wrongly
- om-: do over, better, in a different way
- par-: through(out), completely, perfectly, thoroughly
- pre- before
- ri-: again, re-
- vise-: vice-
Suffixes
- -ach-: contempt, disparagement
- -ada: repeated, continuous action
- -aje: made of, consisting of, having character off, stuff
- -ali: forms adjectives
- -an-: inhabitant; member of class or party
- -ari: agreeing with, fit for
- -arie: recipient of, -ee.
- -aro: group, collection of
- -asi: having tendency, inclination to
- -atri: similar in appearance or character, -ish
- -bli: -able, -ible, that can be ...ed
- -ede: quantity which fills something, -ful
- -endi: which-must-be-done, to be ...ed
- -ere: person occupied in doing
- -eria = -ere + -ia
- -eska: beginning of state or action, becoming
- -esmi: ordinal nmbers
- -eso: abstract nouns (-ness, -ity, etc.)
- -et-: diminutives
- -fika: make, render, cause
- -foy: time(s)
- -grad: degree, extent
- -ia: province, domain, country
- -ide: descendant of
- -iere: person or thing characterized by root, considered as its
bearer
- -ilo: tool, instrument
- -im: forms adverbs
- -ime: fractions
- -indi: worthy of, deserving
- -ione (-tione after a, i, u): nouns from verbs denoting result (as
a whole) or resulting state, or manner of action
- -ira: verbs from nouns denoting living beings
- -isa: render, make (into), supply with
- -isi: very high degree
- -isme: -ism
- -iste: -ist (usually connected with an -isme)
- -ivi: that can do or ordinarily does
- -kas: case
- -klok: o'clock, hour, time
- -lok: place
- -man: manner, way
- -ologe: -ologist
- -ologia: -ology
- -on-: augmentatives
- -opim: numerical distributive adverbs
- -opli: multiples
- -osi: possessing, having (especially in great quantity)
- -tate: abstrace nouns (alternative to -eso)
- -tem: time
- -torie: place where something is done
- -u: makes adverbs from prepositions
- -ure: result or product of action
- -vori: that eats..., -ivore
- -yune: young (of animal)
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