Living affix - Ikita Setsuji

Japanese: 生きた接辞 - いきたせつじ
Living affix - Ikita Setsuji

…In contrast, pro-American is a derivative word because pro- is a prefix that still has the power to create new words today. This kind of pro-, as well as the aforementioned -ness and -y, are called "living suffixes." There is also a phenomenon called back-formation, where, for example, the English word editor was misunderstood as being the verb edit, which did not previously exist, with the suffix -or added, resulting in the creation of the verb edit. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "living affixes" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…それに対してpro‐American(〈親米の〉)においては,pro‐が今日なお造語力をもつ接頭辞であるため,派生語である。このようなpro‐や,前記の‐ness,‐yなどを〈生きた接辞〉という。また逆形成back‐formationという現象もあり,それはたとえば英語editorは,従来存在しなかった動詞editに,接尾辞‐orがついたと誤解され,動詞editが新たに作られた。…

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