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So what exactly determines what's a suffix and what's a prefix?

von ASCarroll, 25. April 2014

Beiträge: 6

Sprache: English

ASCarroll (Profil anzeigen) 25. April 2014 01:08:31

Kinda wondered that for a while too. And seems like a topic less prone to controversy. Why is the meaning "ancient" prefixed when "terrible" is suffixed? Is it just because that's the way Sinjoro Z did it, or is there a deeper linguistic reason?

morfran (Profil anzeigen) 25. April 2014 01:18:44

Like most of the lexicon, Esperanto affixes are modeled on Romance ones, where there are analogous prefixes like pre-, prae-, and proto- and suffixes like -accio, -astro, etc.

nornen (Profil anzeigen) 25. April 2014 01:28:10

morfran:Like most of the lexicon, Esperanto affixes are modeled on Romance ones, where there are analogous prefixes like pre-, prae-, and proto- and suffixes like -accio, -astro, etc.
In which languages are there postfixes "-accio" and "-astro" and what do they mean?

(I just know Spanish "-astro" meaning "step-", like in padrastro or hermanastro.)
(Maybe Italian "-accio" for pejorative?)

morfran (Profil anzeigen) 25. April 2014 01:38:35

nornen:In which languages are there postfixes "-accio" and "-astro" and what do they mean?
Italian -accio is the specific suffix Esperanto gets -aĉ- from. It derives from Latin -aster, -astr- “petty”, “incomplete”, and turns up in the Romance languages (and English) in a variety of forms with a variety of pejorative (or semi-pejorative) meanings, including “step-”.

sudanglo (Profil anzeigen) 25. April 2014 10:38:39

It is not really something to be concerned with but there is a difference between some suffixes in Esperanto and others.

Most suffixes act in the same way as normal word building works, but some don't.

Stacidomo (station building) is a sort of domo, just as kombilo (a comb) is a sort of ilo.

But domego (very large building/house) is not a sort of ego, and dometo little building/cottage is not a sort of eto. They are both sorts of domo.

tommjames (Profil anzeigen) 25. April 2014 14:27:52

There's a section in PMEG on this very subject, here.

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