alleryStart learning →Adding a morpheme at the beginning of a word is called what?
APrefixation
BSuffixation
CReduplication
DInfixation
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Prefixation
Attaching an element before the stem, as in un-happy, is prefixation.
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