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Postpositive

There is a set of words in Latin called "postpositives" or "enclitics" which cannot stand in first position. Instead, they have to come after the first word-unit, hence the name "postpositive" (Latin, post-positus) and "enclitic" (Greek, en-clitic, "leaning on").