Etymograph

English

affix

Affix comes from Latin affixus ‘attached’, from ad ‘to, towards’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd ‘near, at’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂éd‘near, at’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ad‘toward, to, on, up to, for’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEad‘to, towards’next step skipped: Latin affīgō
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaffixus‘attached’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1596affix

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂éd‘near, at’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ad‘toward, to, on, up to, for’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEad‘to, towards’next step skipped: Latin affīgō
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaffixus‘attached’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1596affix

Earliest quotation: 1596, Edmund Spenser: “Look thou no further, but affix thine eye/On that…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd ‘near, at’

at, 16 more

through Proto-Italic *ad ‘toward, to, on, up to, for’

appointee, 16 more

through Latin ad ‘to, towards’

agree, ad, aim, appoint, await, attire, amortization, adage, accolade, adulation, alliteration, après, adroit, apportion, adobo, apres, affine, 20 more

Today it means

noun A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem, such as a prefix or suffix.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd / affix

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