Category talk:English infixes

In pharmacology

The so-called “infixes” in pharmacology, such as -zu-, are all non-final suffixes just like -in- in Esperanto. The difference is that an infix is inserted inside a radical while a non-final suffix is added after a radical and is always followed by another suffix. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 13:37, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

@TAKASUGI Shinji: This is part of a larger Wiktionary problem: we create entries for endings rather than derivational suffixes and inflectional suffixes, and call them "suffixes". Example: Ancient Greek -σύνη, which is really -σύν- (derivational suffix) + -η (inflectional suffix). We thus get used to the wrong idea that something has to be at the end of a word to be a suffix, and that everything else must be infixes. --2A02:2788:A4:F44:3192:8897:B5CB:A7B1 14:10, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

-s

Isn't -s an infix in words like brothers-in-law and sergeants-at-arms? Kdammers (talk) 13:28, 16 January 2024 (UTC)