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- noun One or more letters or sounds added at the top of a word to modify the word's meaning. These are found in
Maya script. - verb To add one or more letters or sounds to the top of a word to change the word's meaning.
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Examples
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It's odd calling the stress contrast in words like debate noun vs verb a 'suffix', but it has in linguistics often been called a 'superfix'.
On imaginary pronunciations DC 2007
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He suppresses the E in _fallen_, where it is usually written and where it must be pronounced, and transfers it to the word _new-starrèd_, where it would not be pronounced if he did not take due care to superfix a _grave_ accent.
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
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Here the wing [Hieroglyph] affix to the right is certainly a postfix, the superfix is in the usual left to right order, [Hieroglyph] and the main element written left to right, as in all its other instances.
Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs William Gates 1901
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In the affixes, the superfix and prefix positions may as a general rule be regarded as wholly identical; also the subfix and postfix positions.
Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs William Gates 1901
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[225-1] Dr Brinton (Primer, p. 117) errs in regarding the superfix to this glyph as the _kin_ or sun symbol.
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Does anyone have any more details about this new "superfix update"?
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