"He killed"|| joqtol || "He kills" |- ! Fem. | qatlet || "She killed" || toqtol ||"She kills" |- ! colspan="2" | Plural | qatlu|| "They killed" || joqtlu || “They kill” |} The Maltese example efficiently demonstrates the broad nature of transfixes and how they can be inserted into a root. The Arabic example shows the ways in which a great variety of different nouns and verbs can be derived from a single root through the use of transfixes. {| class="wikitable IPA" |+Noun pluralization in Hausa ! colspan="2" | Singular ! colspan="2" | Plural |- | zártòò|| “saw” || zárààtáá|| "saws" |- | ɡárkèè || "herd"|| ɡárààkáá || "herds" |- | sárkʲíí || "emir"|| sàrààkáí || "emirs" |- | ɡʷúrɡʷùù || "cripple" || ɡʷúrààɡʷúú || "cripples" |- | ʔárzìkʲíí || "fortune" || ʔárzúkàà || "fortunes" |} The Hausa example demonstrates the presence of transfixation in non-Semitic languages, though the phenomenon does not seem to be attested outside the Afro-Asiatic family. See also Nonconcatenative morphology Affix Prefix Suffix Infix Circumfix Interfix Simulfix Suprafix Duplifix References Alexis NEME and Eric Laporte (2013), Pattern-and-root inflectional morphology: the Arabic broken plural |year= Alexis NEME and Eric Laporte (2015), Do computer scientists deeply understand Arabic morphology? - هل يفهم المهندسون الحاسوبيّون علم الصرف فهماً عميقاً؟, available also in Arabic, Indonesian, French Affixes