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The word pixel can't lose the e before the plural ending -s, but must lose it before the plural ending -er: pix(e)l-en, pixel-s/pix_l-er, pix_l-er(-)ne. All nouns ending in unstressed -en can keep the e before all endings. It is common for nouns to change during inflection in ways that aren't reflected in spelling.
Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French, the Dutch) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify). Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name.
Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French, the Dutch) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g., the adjective Czech does not qualify). Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name.
Adjectives may be used as in English, to modify a noun (e.g., gótt vatn, good water), or may stand alone as a de facto pronoun (e.g., gótt, a good thing). The only difference in their declensions is the masculine accusative singular ending, which is -n in pronouns and -an in adjectives.
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.
More than one diminutive suffix can be applied to add more emphasis: e.g. rei, "king" → reietó (habitual epithet directed to a little child); panxa "belly" → panxolineta Diminutives can also be applied to adjectives: e.g. petit, "small" → petitó. Historically other suffixes have formed diminutives as well:
Formation of adjectives from nouns using suffixes such as -owy, -ny, -ski and -i (as in koci "cat's" from kot "cat"). Formation of nouns from adjectives, usually using the suffix -ość (to form feminine nouns). Formation of nouns from verbs, usually in -nie, sometimes -cie (see the section on Verbs above).
The historical plural ending for adjectives is -i. However, in late Quenya, adjectives ending in - a instead have this - a replaced by - ë . Moreover, the adjective laurëa ("golden") there has the plural form laurië (in laurië lantar lassi , literary "golden fall (the) leaves", which in singular would have been *'laurëa lanta lassë ...