When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_family_name_affixes

    -ell (English spelling for French -el, diminutive) [citation needed]-el (Northern French and Occitan, French -eau) [citation needed]-ema (Suffix of Frisian origin, given by Napoleon Bonaparte who used suffixes like these to keep a record of people's origins within the Netherlands) [citation needed]-ems [citation needed]

  3. Suffix (name) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_(name)

    Social name suffixes are far more frequently applied to men than to women. [5] A child with a name that varies from a parent's name in middle name only may also be informally known as Jr. (e.g. Francis Wayne Sinatra, son of Francis Albert Sinatra), and his father may be known informally as Sr. (e.g., Paul John Teutul and his son, Paul Michael ...

  4. List of diminutives by language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diminutives_by...

    Names can be made diminutive by substituting the last syllable for suffixes such as "-ik", "-i" or "-le", sometimes slightly altering the name for pronunciation purposes. At times, a syllable can be omitted to create an independent diminutive name, to which any of the suffixes mentioned earlier can be applied.

  5. Suffix - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix

    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. Suffixes can carry grammatical information (inflectional endings) or lexical information (derivational/lexical ...

  6. Category:Suffixes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suffixes

    This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. ... Suffixes of Greek origin (11 P) N. Name suffixes (1 C, 9 P) Neo-Latin suffixes ...

  7. List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_forms_in...

    This article lists a number of common generic forms in place names in the British Isles, their meanings and some examples of their use. The study of place names is called toponymy ; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British and Irish place names, refer to Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland .

  8. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters

    20 024 Device Control 4: DC4 / Ctrl-T U+0015 21 025 Negative-acknowledge character: NAK / Ctrl-U 9: U+0016 22 026 Synchronous Idle: SYN / Ctrl-V U+0017 23 027 End of Transmission Block: ETB / Ctrl-W U+0018 24 030 Cancel character: CAN / Ctrl-X 10: U+0019 25 031 End of Medium: EM / Ctrl-Y U+001A 26 032 Substitute character: SUB / Ctrl-Z 11: U+ ...

  9. Affix - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affix

    Prefix and suffix may be subsumed under the term adfix, in contrast to infix. [5] When marking text for interlinear glossing, as shown in the third column in the chart above, simple affixes such as prefixes and suffixes are separated from the stem with hyphens. Affixes which disrupt the stem, or which themselves are discontinuous, are often ...