Definition of "infixation" [infixation]

• Word-formation involving an infix or infixes; adding an infix to a word. (noun)
• The state or quality of being infixed. (noun)

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• "Without laryngeals, it should be already clear to a knowledgeable linguist that many languages simplify stems in oblique case forms without the need to appeal to arcane infixation of one 'miracle phoneme' or another."
• "It may be that this putative prosodic breathy voice played a (limited) morphological role analogous to ablaut or n-infixation, explaining to some extent the apparent voiceless/voiced ("aspirated") root doublets."
• "First assuming a consonantal *o, then assuming an infixation of this consonantal *o as a derivation."