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wheel in wheelchair and wheelwell
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Etymology
prefix + -oid, coined c. 1966 by Yakov Malkiel
Noun
prefixoid (plural prefixoids)
- (linguistics) A wordinitial segment that does not have all characteristics of a prefix.
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Romanian
Etymology
From prefix + -oid.
Noun
prefixoid n (plural prefixoide)
- prefixoid
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