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The answer TRANSFIX has 27 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of transfix in various dictionaries:
verb - to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
verb - pierce with a sharp stake or point
To pierce with or as if with a pointed weapon.
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In linguistic morphology, a transfix is a discontinuous affix which is inserted into a word root, as in root-and-pattern systems of morphology, like those of many Semitic languages. * A discontinuous affix is an affix whose phonetic components are not sequential within a word, and instead, are spread out between or around the phones that comprise the root. The word root is often an abstract series of three consonants, though single consonant, biliteral, and quadriliteral roots do exist. An example of a triconsonantal root would be drb in Arabic, which can be inflected to create forms such as daraba 'he beat' and idribunna 'beat them (feminine)'. While triconsonantal roots are widely considered to be the most common state, some linguists posit that biliteral roots may in fact be the default, though at least one scholar is skeptical of the legitimacy of these claims.Transfixes are placed into these roots in assigned positions, dictated by templates which are tied to the specific meanin |