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Verbit

1. (transitive, archaic) To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.
2. (transitive) To instill.
3. (transitive, linguistics) To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.

Substantiivit

1. An affix inserted inside a root, such as -ma- in English edumacation.
2. (some authors when describing agglutinative languages, otherwise dated) A prefix that is not at the beginning of a word, such as the con- of reconcile, or a suffix that is not at the end of a word, such as the -al of nationality.
3. (Bantu linguistics, dated) A prefix that always occurs in the position immediately before the verb root, and which may in turn be preceded by other prefixes.
4. (proscribed) Synonym of interfix.