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  2. List of English suffixes - Wikipedia

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    Search for List of English suffixes in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the List of English suffixes article , using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it ; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary .

  3. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    -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]-ėnas (Lithuanian) "son of" [citation needed]-enko , -enka/-anka "son of" [citation needed]

  4. Category:English suffixes - Wikipedia

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    For a comprehensive and longer list of English suffixes, see Wiktionary's list of English suffixes. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories ...

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

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    prefix cwm in Welsh and cum in Cumbric; borrowed into old English as suffix coombe. dal [5] SG, I meadow, low-lying area by river Dalry, Dalmellington: prefix Cognate with and probably influenced by P Dol: dale [10] OE/ON valley OE, allotment OE Airedale i.e. valley of the River Aire, Rochdale, Weardale, Nidderdale: suffix Cognate with Tal (Ger ...

  6. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/P–Z - Wikipedia

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    The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from P to Z. See also the lists from A to G and from H to O. Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are not listed here but instead in the entry for List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes

  7. Affix - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Suffix - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. English prefix - Wikipedia

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    Unlike derivational suffixes, English derivational prefixes typically do not change the lexical category of the base (and are so called class-maintaining prefixes). 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.