Female in dusky pink top: Prefix is the piece that you add onto a word at the beginning of a word and the suffix is the bit that you add on at the end. Female in suit: So you see here a thank you ...

Prefixes and suffixes are additions to words that change them into different words. Prefixes are added to the beginning and suffixes are added to the end of the word. Examples of a prefix include ...

Words are made up of roots, bases, stems, derivational endings ... The forms to the left of -fer are prefixes which cannot occur in isolation. Even these prefixes do not have a fixed lexical meaning.