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  2. 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 ...

  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). [2]

  4. Slavic name suffixes - Wikipedia

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    Comes from the physically smaller of a noun; possibly coming from the younger son or daughter of a family. (i.e. Proto-Balto-Slavic āˀbōl > OCS. аблъко, Rus. я́блоко, Srb-Cro. jȁbuka, Pol. jabłko.)-енко -enko Ukraine, [3] Belarus, (to a lesser extent in Russia) Of Ukrainian origin.

  5. Funeral director - Wikipedia

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    The term mortician is derived from the Latin word mort-('death') with the ending -ician.In 1895, the trade magazine The Embalmers' Monthly put out a call for a new name for the profession in the US to distance itself from the title undertaker, a term that was then perceived to have been tarnished by its association with death.

  6. Proto-Indo-European nominals - Wikipedia

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    Most of them had word stems ending in a consonant (called athematic stems) and exhibited a complex pattern of accent shifts and/or vowel changes among the different cases. Two declensions ended in a vowel ( * -o/-e [ note 1 ] ) and are called thematic ; they were more regular and became more common during the history of PIE and its older ...

  7. Ve (Cyrillic) - Wikipedia

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    In Rusyn, the letter Ve represents the sound /v/, or /w/ if it is at the end of the word. In Serbian and Montenegrin, the letter Ve represents only the sound /v/. In Macedonian the letter is used for the sound /v/, but if the letter appears at the end of the word then it is pronounced as /f/. An example of this is the word бев [bɛf] ('I was').

  8. Slavic vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    However, the words given as the modern versions are not necessarily the normal words with the given meaning in the various modern languages, but the words directly descended from the corresponding Proto-Slavic word (the reflex). The list here is given both in the orthography of each language, with accent marks added as necessary to aid in ...

  9. Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples vac-empty: Latin: vacare: evacuate, vacancy, vacant, vacate, vacation, vacuous, vacuum vacc-