- -or, [[X]V or]N
- Verb to Noun examples: terminate → terminator, illustrate → illustrator, navigate → navigator
- -ify, [[X]N,A ify]V where Y=N,A
- Noun to verb examples: fortitude → fortify, glory → glorify, terror → terrify
- (Also can change adjective to verb: false → falsify, beauty → beautify, simple→ simplify)
- terminator → terminatorify, illustrator → illustratorify, navigator → nagivatorify.
- The resulting words do not seem to be well-formed in my opinion, perhaps because I know that they are not already-existing words used in English. However, aside from that fact, these words do not appear to follow a comprehensible or logical pattern. For instance, the affixes that I used in my examples are “-or,” which means “one who ____” and “-ify,” which means “to make/cause ____.” In this case, if we look at the word illustrator, it means “one who illustrates.” If we were to add on the “-ify” prefix to it, it would mean something like “to make or cause an illustrator,” which does not really make any sense, so this process does not work.
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