Thematic indexes
Trying to classify affixes is like organising all human knowledge. Any attempt will fall short of perfection, perhaps even adequacy. But these headings between them cover the majority of entries and are included in the hope that you will find them useful.
| Biochemistry | Relating to the chemical and physico-chemical processes which occur within living organisms. See also Human body, Medicine and surgery. |
| Biological classes | The classification of living things into groups such as genus and family. See also Living world. |
| Chemical elements | The building blocks of matter. See also Substances. |
| Chemical radicals | Referring to groups of atoms that behave as a unit in a number of chemical compounds. |
| Colours | A surprisingly small group of terms for hues, both physical and organic. |
| Culture & society | A spectrum of words relating to the actions and activities of people in groups. See also Religion and spirit. |
| Diminutives | Implying smallness, either actual or imputed. See also Grammatical affixes. |
| Direction & movement | Physical movement or position is implied; for movement in time, see Time. |
| Gender | Indicating various qualities of maleness or femaleness or forming nouns with one of those qualities. |
| Grammatical affixes | Those prefixes and suffixes that change the part of speech or function of a word without significantly amending its meanin. See also Negatives and Diminutives . |
| Human body | A wide range of terms for organs and bodily processes. See also Medicine and surgery |
| Knowledge | As a subject of study, a skill in a subject of study, or a compendium of knowledge. |
| Language & writing | Linguistics, varieties of language, or communication. |
| Living world | A broad category relating to both plants and animals. See also Biological classes |
| Medicine & surgery | Diseases, conditions, injuries, infections, and medical techniques. See also Biochemistry, Human body |
| Miscellaneous | A catch-all class. |
| Negatives | Grammatical prefixes indicating negation. See also Grammatical affixes. |
| Numbers & multiples | Including the standard SI multiples as well as those indicating both fractions and multiples, as well as numbers. |
| Physical world | A broad collection of terms from earth science, astronomy, mineralogy and physics. |
| Places & peoples | Terms for geographical, cultural and religious groupings of peoples. |
| Position | Includes some affixes indicating size as well as relative position and qualities relating to position. See also Direction & movement. |
| Proportions | Affixes indicating qualities such as inequality, division, and relative size. |
| Qualities | Intangible characteristics ranging from beauty to newness, from correctness to speed. See also Sensations |
| Religion & spirit | Worship, existence, and holiness. |
| Sensations | Physical sensations experienced by the body, such as pain, vision, heat or pressure. See also Qualities |
| Shapes | This group includes affixes meaning crested, bent, circular, spiral or wheel-like. |
| Substances | A broad category that includes items like wood and silk as well as some foodstuffs such as milk or wine. See also Chemical elements, Chemical radicals |
| Technology | Items here range from farming to computing and electronics to turbines. |
| Time | Both relationships in time and periods of time. |
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