- form -- con-, de-, in-, per-, re-, trans, uni-.
- firm -- af-, con-, in-.
- ply -- ap-, com-, im-, multi-, re-, sup-.
- found -- con-, pro-.
- fuse -- con-, de-, ef-, in-, pro-, re-, suf-, trans-.
- phony -- caco-, sym-, tele-, anti-, poly-.
- tate -- agi-, anno-, dic-, es-, hesi-, intes-, lac-, mu-, poten-, resusci-, ro-.
- nate -- abomi-, bicarbo-, carbo-, concate-, desig-, deto-, domi-, elimi-, fortu-, germi-, halluci-, illumi-, impreg-, into-, nomi-, predomi-, reso-, termi-, unfortu-, uri-, vacci-.
- late -- accumu-, ambu-, assimi-, choco-, discombobu-, emu-, extrapo-, formu-, gesticu-, immo-, invio-, muti-, ob-, oscil-, perambu-, perco-, popu-, regu-, simu-, titil-, vio-.
- gate -- fumi-, insti-, investi-, miti-, navi-, obli-, propa-, surro-.
- cate -- abdi-, adjudi-, bifur-, defe-, desic-, forni-, indi-, lubri-, medi-, predi-, repli-, suppli-, va-.
- motion -- com-, de-, e-, loco-, pro-.
- position -- ap-, com-, de-, decom-, im-, op-, pro-, re-, sup-, trans-.
- astic -- bomb-, chili-, dr-, el-, fant-, mon-, orgi-, pl-, schol-.
- gestion -- con-, decon-, di-, indi-, sug-.
- bra -- alge-, penum-, um-, verte-, ze-.
Well, that's enough for now. Your head will stop swimming eventually. You may even want to try playing this game yourself.
This post has been done in a spirit of fun, rather tongue-in-cheek, but my old English teacher, Mr. D.P. Morris, is probably spinning in his grave at my audacity.
My personal game is to take the letters of a name or short phrase to see how many words I can make from them. I have to form--trans- often and sometimes I tate--hesi- while I late--formu- all the possibilities.
ReplyDeleteEmma, please excuse my delay in replying. I have been playing your game using the phrase MERRY CHRISTMAS.and so far I have foundd 381 plus a couple of naughty words, and I'm still playing.. The fact that the letter 's' appears two times makes a lot of plurals possible. Perhaps I will publish my list in a future post.
DeleteOOh I will get to work on it right away.
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DeleteEmma, I have slowed down but my MERRY CHRISTMAS list has passed 430. I am planning to make a post about it shortly. Stay tuned.
Interesting. It occurred to me that I didn't ever recall seeing a Dictionary of Affixes nor, for that matter, a Dictionary of either suffixes or prefixes. So I Googled it and there is at least one of Affixes and doubtless more of either one. I have to say that I have not given enough thought in my life to Affixes and may remedy that. Well at least add it to my "List of Things To Do Whilst I'm Still Able".
ReplyDeleteGraham, once I started this post it was difficult to stop. I know some of my 'prefixes' are a little far-fetched but it was great fun.
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