2294: Disfix Mar 28, 2021

There are many types of affixes, including ones which are not only additive, whether in the middle or on the ends [1]. One more for instance is the so-called 'disfix' which is a type of affix (such as in French a suffix) which is subtractive, meaning is causes a loss to the stem. Usually, this happens to the final segment of the stem, just before the disfix. For instance, with this pluralization from French:

bœuf (cow) as [bœf] --> bœufs (cows/cattle) as [bø]

such that the [f] is deleted in the plural. This also happens with adjectives such as

fausse (wrong (fem.)) as [fos] --> faux (wrong (masc.)) as [fo].

This process is common in certain North American native languages like Alabama, Choctaw, or other Muskogee languages.