Prefix Morpheme

A Prefix Morpheme is an affix morpheme that can be attached to the beginning of a Word.

• Example(s):
  • "pseudo-": "pseudonym", "pseudocode", "pseudo-intellectual".
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Suffix.
  • a Word Prefix.
• See: Morphological Parsing Task.

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References

• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Prefix
• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Prefixes
• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_prefixes

2009

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=prefix
  • Noun: prefix (an affix that is added in front of the word)
  • Verb: prefix (attach a prefix to) "prefixed words"

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