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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.
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information (inflectional endings) or lexical information (derivational/lexical ...
For a comprehensive list of suffixes, see Wiktionary's list of Suffixes. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. E.
(usually) suffix See also -bury and Borough for further information and other uses. Burgh is primarily Northumbrian and Scots. Cf. Nl. and Ger. Burg: by, [10] bie ON settlement, village Grimsby, [19] Derby, Whitby, Selby, Crosby, Formby, Kirkby, Rugby, Helsby, Corby, Wetherby, Lockerbie: usually suffix but compare Bicker (the town marsh)
Morphological derivation, in linguistics, is the process of forming a new word from an existing word, often by adding a prefix or suffix, such as un-or -ness. For example, unhappy and happiness derive from the root word happy.
List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes; Latin names of cities This page was last edited on 6 January 2025, at 14:19 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The most common noun-forming suffixes in English are -tion, -ism, -ity, and -ness. [17] For example, the verb activate + -tion becomes the noun activation . English nouns can also be formed by conversion (no change, e.g., run [verb] → run [noun]) and compounding (putting two bases together, e.g., grand + mother → grandmother ).