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For a comprehensive and longer list of English suffixes, see Wiktionary's list of English suffixes. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Greek -ισμός (-ismós), suffix forming abstract nouns of state, condition, doctrine dwarfism-ismus: spasm, contraction Greek -ισμός: hemiballismus: iso-denoting something as being equal Greek ἴσος (ísos), equal isotonic-ist: one who specializes in Greek -ιστής (-istḗs), agent noun, one who practices pathologist-ite
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Derivational suffixes fall into two categories: class-changing derivation and class-maintaining derivation. Particularly in the study of Semitic languages, suffixes are called affirmatives, as they can alter the form of the words. In Indo-European studies, a distinction is made between suffixes and endings (see Proto-Indo-European root).
Suffixoid [3] /semi-suffix [4] /pseudo-suffix: cat-like: stem-suffixoid: Appears after the stem, but is only partially bound to it Infix (see also tmesis) edu ma cated: st infix em: Appears within a stem — common e.g. in Austronesian languages: Circumfix: en light en: circumfix stem circumfix: One portion appears before the stem, the other ...
Pawtucket Falls (Massachusetts) and Pawtucket Falls (Rhode Island) – Pawtucket is an Algonkian word meaning "at the falls in the river (tidal stream)". [33] Staðarstaður, Iceland (Staður means "a pastor's farm" and is a common suffix to the names of such farms—this means "Pastor's farm which is a pastor's farm") Thun Castle, "Fortress ...
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).