julielai  +  220464 Fri, 28 Apr 06 05:53 AM I believe this is just a compound word, though I could be wrong. julielai Joined on Sun, Oct 24 2004 Senior Member 3,826 Just another blogger (http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/julie-lai)

	Clive  +  420775 Tue, 18 Sep 07 10:22 PM Hi, One more twist in the present discussion is the word like "preposterous." As far as I know, pre- is a prefix post- also is a prefix, Yes, but not in this case, see below. and -ous is the suffix. Then where is the Base? The word is derived from the Latin 'prae', meaning 'before', and the Latin 'posterus', meaning 'next'. While it's true that 'post' is often used as an English prefix, here it is not. In effect, here it is the base of the word. The semantic idea of the word is that something 'before the next' sounds absurd and unnatural, although when I think about that, I'm not sure that I agree. However, I didn't invent the word.  Best wishes, Clive   Clive Joined on Thu, Oct 28 2004 Canada Veteran Member 29,298 El tango argentino es un pensamiento triste que se puede bailar (The tango argentino is a sad thought which can be danced) Enrique Santos Discépolo

	Lil' Ruby Rose  +  420823 Wed, 19 Sep 07 12:13 AM  Anonymous wrote: Interesting, but what if I have a situation where I intend to combine two noun roots to develop another noun? For example, boat is as much a root as swain.  When combining them, how are we to decipher whether boat is the prefix or swain is the suffix? Since a boatswain is a person, and a swain is a person - and if you definitely had to have one as a prefix/suffix rather than both of them having equal status in a compound noun - I'd consider boat the prefix. Lil' Ruby Rose Joined on Wed, Dec 20 2006 Regular Member 879 Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion. Nouns

	Clive  +  556740 Wed, 20 Aug 08 04:11 AM Hi, Is there a word that ends with the stem prefix -crac? No. A word can't end with a prefix. Is there a word that starts with the suffix nomen- or nym-? No. A word can't start with a suffix. REMEMBER this is not the term for plant {stem}. Answer my question A.S.A.P!  You may not realize that in English culture the word 'please' is considered important. Best wishes, Clive Clive