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  2. -ly - Wikipedia

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    The Libyan domain, .ly was used for domain hacks for this suffix. [8] [9] There are some words that are neither adverbs nor adjectives, and yet end with -ly, such as apply, family, supply. There are also adverbs in English that do not end with -ly, such as now, then, tomorrow, today, upstairs, downstairs, yesterday, overseas, behind, already.

  3. List of words with the suffix -ology - Wikipedia

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    The ology ending is a combination of the letter o plus logy in which the letter o is used as an interconsonantal letter which, for phonological reasons, precedes the morpheme suffix logy. [1] Logy is a suffix in the English language, used with words originally adapted from Ancient Greek ending in -λογία ( -logia ).

  4. Flat adverb - Wikipedia

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    Some bare adverbs don't alternate; e.g. fast, straight, tough, far, low. In addition, the ending -ly is also found on some words that are both adverbs and adjectives (e.g. friendly) and some words that are only adjectives (e.g. lonely). Nearly all irregular comparative adjectives in English can take on adverbial form and never use the -ly.

  5. Quenya - Wikipedia

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    Quenya (pronounced [ˈkʷwɛɲja]) [T 1] is a constructed language, one of those devised by J. R. R. Tolkien for the Elves in his Middle-earth fiction.. Tolkien began devising the language around 1910, and restructured its grammar several times until it reached its final state.

  6. Pinyin language - Wikipedia

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    py (mby), ly (ndy), ty, ky, ngy, my, kẅ, ngẅ (= /kʷj, ɡʷj/) pw (mbw), lw (ndw), tw, tsw, chw, shw, sw, zw, zhw, nw, nyw, ŋw. All noun and verb roots begin with a consonant; initial vowels are necessarily prefixes. Only /a, ɨ/ occur in prefixes or at the beginning of words, and only /ə/ occurs in suffixes. /ɨ, y/ do not occur at the ...

  7. Suffix - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Any word or phrase which modifies a noun or pronoun, grammatically added to describe, identify, or quantify the related noun or pronoun. [9] [10] adverb A descriptive word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb. Typically ending in -ly, adverbs answer the questions when, how, and how many times. [3] [11] aisling

  9. List of acronyms: T - Wikipedia

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    This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter T. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars