præfixing

English

Verb

præfixing

  1. present participle of præfix
    • 1888, David Zeisberger quoted in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, volume XII, page 330:
      The Infinitive is the root; the Present Indicative is formed from it by præfixing a Pronoun and instead of that the first syllable of the Infinitive is commonly thrown away, and the Præformative takes its place []
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