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What is the meaning of root/ affix?
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What is the meaning of root/ affix?

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A root is a word without a prefix and/or suffix. (e.g: house)

A affix is a morpheme added to a word to form a new word (e.g the tree in treehouse)

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Affix

an additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning.

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