noun
Linguistic term for a morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning.
「お茶」の「お」は接頭辞です。
The 'o' in 'ocha' is a prefix.
日本語の接頭辞には「お」「ご」「不」「非」などがある
Japanese prefixes include 'o', 'go', 'fu', 'hi', and others.
接辞 is the broader term for affixes, encompassing both prefixes (接頭辞) and suffixes (接尾辞).
Compound of 接頭 (settō, 'prefixal') + 辞 (ji, 'word' or 'morpheme'), modeled after Western linguistic terminology.