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  2. -ism - Wikipedia

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    -ism (/-ˌ ɪ z əm /) is a suffix in many English words, originally derived from the Ancient Greek suffix -ισμός (-ismós), and reached English through the Latin-ismus, and the French-isme. [1]

  3. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    Words ending in a stressed vowel (e.g., вода́) can only rhyme with other words which share the consonant preceding the vowel (e.g., когда́). Words ending in a stressed vowel preceded by another vowel, as well as words ending in a stressed vowel preceded by /j/, can all be rhymed with each other: моя́, тая́ and чья all rhyme.

  4. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    As a general rule, this vowel almost always acts as a joint-stem to connect two consonantal roots (e.g. arthr-+ -o-+ -logy = arthrology), but generally, the -o-is dropped when connecting to a vowel-stem (e.g. arthr-+ -itis = arthritis, instead of arthr-o-itis). Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek ...

  5. -gry puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The answer is "energy". The riddle says that the word ends in the letters g-r-y; it says nothing about the order of the letters. Many words end with "-rgy", but energy is something everyone uses every day. There are at least three words in the English language that end in "g" or "y". One of them is "hungry", and another one is "angry".

  6. Arabic nouns and adjectives - Wikipedia

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    These words can be "lexicalized" (made into separate lexical entries, i.e. words with their own specific meanings) by giving them additional semantics, much as the original English gerund "meeting" and passive participle "loaded" have been lexicalized from their original meanings of "the act of meeting (something)", "being loaded into/onto ...

  7. Suffix - Wikipedia

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    A word-final segment that is somewhere between a free morpheme and a bound morpheme is known as a suffixoid [2] or a semi-suffix [3] (e.g., English-like or German-freundlich "friendly"). Examples [ edit ]

  8. Marfa - Wikipedia

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    Marfa, a sub-group of the Maba people of north-central Africa Marfa language, a Maban language spoken in Chad; Marfa front, another term for a dry line; Marfa lights, a possible paranormal phenomena frequently visible near Marfa, Texas; At the Harvest (Marfa and Vanka) [fr; uk; ru], a painting by avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich

  9. Marfa (music) - Wikipedia

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    The Marfa is a form of celebratory rhythmic music and dance from Hyderabad, India, among the Hyderabadi Muslims, adapted from Afro-Arab music of Hadhramawt in Yemen. [1] It is played at a high tempo using instruments such as marfa , daff , dhol , sticks , [ 2 ] steel pots and wooden strips called thapi .