Thread:User talk:CodeCat/circumfic/confix/reply (2)

Thanks a lot. Now I understand what you meant. And you were right. The circumfix template clearly is the better choice.

Contrary to English, you won't find a word in German merely consisting of a prefix and a suffix alone (at least I haven't found any true example by now). You can always track down some kind of base (Grundwort),

For example, the suffix -artig is itself a compound of Art + -ig. And at times you can see users struggling with that: eigenartig, abartig.

So I definitely think, circumfix is the better template here, because it is explicitly pointing to a base.