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A category changing affix that takes verbs as its inputs and delivers nouns as its output is -al.

-al [[X]v[al]n

Arrive—>arrival, deny—>denial, refuse—> refusal

A category changing affix that takes nouns as its inputs and delivers verbs as its output is -ify.

-ify [[X]n[ify]v

terror —> terrify, solid—>solidify, person—>personify

3. Arrive—>arrivify, deny—>denify, —>refuse—>refusify

These resulting words are not well formed. They are also not existing words. What doesn’t seem to work about this process is that the suffix -ify, can a only be used on a limited amount of nouns to convert into a verb. In this case it cannot be done on these specific verbs because if done so, the words that will show are words that are not used in the English dictionary.