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  2. Denominal verb - Wikipedia

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    Denominal verb derivation is highly productive in Hebrew. They are derived from denominal roots and mostly get a set of pi'el, pu'al and hitpa'el binyans, but can accept others as well.

  3. Hard and soft C - Wikipedia

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    The suffixes -ify and -ise/-ize can be added to most nouns and adjectives to form new verbs. The pronunciation of c in newly coined words using these suffixes is not always clear. The digraph ck may be used to retain the hard c pronunciation in inflections and derivatives of a word such as trafficking from the verb traffic.

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

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    The use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products. boxology: A representation of an organized structure as a graph of labeled nodes ("boxes") and connections between them (as lines or arrows). brachyology † The colloquial omission of words from a phrase; e.g. "morning" instead of "good morning". Concise speech or laconism. 1 ...

  5. English prefix - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the word do, consisting of a single morpheme, is a verb, as is the word redo, which consists of the prefix re-and the base root do. However, there are a few prefixes in English that are class-changing in that the word resulting after prefixation belongs to a lexical category that is different from the lexical category of the base.

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling/Words ending with "-ise ...

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    The following is a list of common words sometimes ending with "-ise" (en-GB) especially in the UK popular press and "-ize" in American English (en-US) and Oxford spelling (en-GB-oxendict; formerly en-GB-oed) as used by the British Oxford English Dictionary, which uses the "-ize" ending for most of the same words as American English.

  7. List of English words of Old English origin - Wikipedia

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    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.).

  8. War Girls - Wikipedia

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    Daren and Ify learn of the attack on the oil derrick during a security conference, and Daren rushes out to fight the Biafran infiltrators. Ify chases after Daren, but falls unconscious after connecting to him through a surveillance helmet. The War Girls use this connection to broadcast images of the Colonies' mechs.

  9. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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    Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] (air). Comes from the Latin āër, Greek ἀήρ. When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ ...