Affixes used in 1930 Novial

Prefixes

• bo-: -in-law
• des-: direct opposite
• dis-: separation, dispersal
• ex-: late, former
• ko-: together
• mal-: badly, ill-
• mi-: half, partly
• mis-: mis-, wrongly
• om-: do over, better, in a different way
• par-: through(out), completely, perfectly, thoroughly
• pre- before
• ri-: again, re-
• vise-: vice-

Suffixes

• -ach-: contempt, disparagement
• -ada: repeated, continuous action
• -aje: made of, consisting of, having character off, stuff
• -ali: forms adjectives
• -an-: inhabitant; member of class or party
• -ari: agreeing with, fit for
• -arie: recipient of, -ee.
• -aro: group, collection of
• -asi: having tendency, inclination to
• -atri: similar in appearance or character, -ish
• -bli: -able, -ible, that can be ...ed
• -ede: quantity which fills something, -ful
• -endi: which-must-be-done, to be ...ed
• -ere: person occupied in doing
• -eria = -ere + -ia
• -eska: beginning of state or action, becoming
• -esmi: ordinal nmbers
• -eso: abstract nouns (-ness, -ity, etc.)
• -et-: diminutives
• -fika: make, render, cause
• -foy: time(s)
• -grad: degree, extent
• -ia: province, domain, country
• -ide: descendant of
• -iere: person or thing characterized by root, considered as its bearer
• -ilo: tool, instrument
• -im: forms adverbs
• -ime: fractions
• -indi: worthy of, deserving
• -ione (-tione after a, i, u): nouns from verbs denoting result (as a whole) or resulting state, or manner of action
• -ira: verbs from nouns denoting living beings
• -isa: render, make (into), supply with
• -isi: very high degree
• -isme: -ism
• -iste: -ist (usually connected with an -isme)
• -ivi: that can do or ordinarily does
• -kas: case
• -klok: o'clock, hour, time
• -lok: place
• -man: manner, way
• -ologe: -ologist
• -ologia: -ology
• -on-: augmentatives
• -opim: numerical distributive adverbs
• -opli: multiples
• -osi: possessing, having (especially in great quantity)
• -tate: abstrace nouns (alternative to -eso)
• -tem: time
• -torie: place where something is done
• -u: makes adverbs from prepositions
• -ure: result or product of action
• -vori: that eats..., -ivore
• -yune: young (of animal)