The forms to the left of -fer are prefixes which cannot occur in isolation ... It is simpler and less messy to assume that the root has no categorical property, though this assumption could be wrong.

Female in dusky pink top: Prefix is the piece that you add onto a word at the beginning of a word and the suffix is the bit that you add on at the end. Female in suit: So you see here a thank you ...

Prefixes and suffixes are useless without their root words. Just like this trailer is useless without the quad bike. In the word ‘useless’, ‘less’ is a suffix that altogether changes the m ...