English

Verb

præfixing

1. present participle of præfix
   • 1888, David Zeisberger quoted in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, volume XII, page 330:

     The Infinitive is the root; the Present Indicative is formed from it by præfixing a Pronoun and instead of that the first syllable of the Infinitive is commonly thrown away, and the Præformative takes its place […]