Editing Circumfix (section)

{{Short description|Type of agglutinative inflection}}
{{distinguish|Circumflex}}
{{Affixes}}

A '''circumfix''' ([[list of glossing abbreviations|abbr]]: '''{{sc|circ}}''')<ref>{{Cite web| last1 = Comrie| first1 = Bernard| last2 = Haspelmath| first2 = Martin| last3 = Bickel| first3 = Balthasar| title = Leipzig glossing rules: Conventions for interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses| date = 2008| url = https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources/glossing-rules.php| access-date = 2016-04-12| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190804103429/https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources/glossing-rules.php| archive-date = 2019-08-04| url-status = dead}}</ref> (also '''parafix''',<ref>''The Oxford Handbook of Language Production'' (by Matthew Goldrick, Victor Ferreira, Michele Miozzo), [[Oxford University Press]], 2014, ISBN 9780199393459, [https://books.google.com/books?id=yjg_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA159 p. 159] at [[Google Books]]: "Circumfixation (or parafixation) is the most sparsely attested type of affixation, [...]"</ref> '''confix''', or '''ambifix''') is an [[affix]] which has two parts, one placed at the start of a word, and the other at the end.  Circumfixes contrast with [[Prefix (linguistics)|prefix]]es, attached to the beginnings of words; [[suffix]]es, attached at the end; and [[infix]]es, inserted in the middle. Circumfixes are common in [[Malay language|Malay]]<ref>{{citation |last=Tadmor |first=Uri |contribution=Malay-Indonesian and Malayic languages |editor-last=Strazny  |editor-first=Philipp |title=Encyclopedia of Linguistics |pages=644–647 |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |place=New York |date=2005}}</ref><!--
 --> and [[Georgian language|Georgian]].<ref>{{citation |last=Colarusso |first=John | author-link=John Colarusso |contribution=Georgian and Caucasian languages |editor-last=Strazny  |editor-first=Philipp |title=Encyclopedia of Linguistics |pages=380–383 |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |place=New York |date=2005}}</ref>

Its related operation is called '''circumfixation''' (or '''parafixation''', '''confixation''', '''ambifixation''').