Re: confession: roots

Raymond Brown scripsit:

> Affixes
> include not only prefixes & suffixes but also infixes; since in the Semitic
> langs vowels act as infixes, the root is the (usually triliteral)
> consonants, e.g. KTB (write).
Indo-European has infixes too, though less prominently.  The difference
between "confound" and "confuse" (or more accurately their Latin originals)
represents a nasal infix: the root is "fud", there is a prefix "con".

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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