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Originally Posted By: FaldageThen there's words that are formed of nothing but affixes. E.g., reify or semiotic.
reify is only accidentally (in the Platonic sense) composed of affixes. The "re" in it is arguably not the prefix meaning 'in reference to' or 'done for a second time' etc, but the preposition meaning 'thing' - the word means to 'thingify' an abstract concept, that is, to make it re-al or concrete. Re is the root word that the suffix -ify has been added to.
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