('s) as place suffix - English Only forum "a la" and suffix "esque" - English Only forum Adding -ic suffix to words - English Only forum Adding the -o suffix: weirdo, kiddo, sicko, Johno, ... - English Only forum adjective+ noun with suffix ed - English Only forum affectionate ...
RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook The following article is fromThe Great Soviet Encyclopedia(1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased. Derived Word a new word in a language formed from preexisting words by using active models of word-...
contest Words with the suffix of ee,ette,ique,ese,eer,ain, always stresses on them employee,trainee, cassette,cigarette unique,critique Chinese, Japanese engineer,volunteer maintain,explain With the suffix of ic,sion,tion, always stresses on the last but one compre'hen'sion geo'graph'ic 'na'...
The suffix -y would be the influence of sticky. If that interpretation is true, the underlying form is sick. This word was seoc in Old English from PIE sewg-/sowg- "sad, grievous", which showed up in Dutch as ziek, German as siech, Norwegian Bokmal as syk, Norwegian Nynorsk as ...
Hill, A.A. (1974): Word stress and the suffix -ic. Journal of English Linguistics, 8: 6-20.Hill, A.A. (1974):Word stress and the suffix-ic. Journal of English Linguistics, 8:6-20.Hill, Archibald. A. 1974. Word Stress and...
-ic one relating to Usage heretic A hereticis someone who doubts or acts in opposition to commonly or generally accepted beliefs. agnostic An agnosticis a person who believes that it is impossible to know conclusively whether or not God exists; an agnosticcan be doubtful about other things as...
Turgid writing or speech is excessively complicated, being filled with too many needlessly difficult words; consequently, such verbiage is boring and difficult to understand. pallid If someone is pallid, they look very pale in an unattractive and unhealthy way. viscid Something viscid is thick, stic...
diminutive - a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness dirty word - a word that is considered to be unmentionable; "`failure' is a dirty word to him" dissyllable, disyllable - a word having two syllables descriptor, form, signifier, word form ...
Forum discussions with the word(s) "etymological" in the title: -tain suffix etymological roots Etymological derivation of "thus" tickled the etymological fancy of the 16th c Visit the English Only Forum.Help WordReference: Ask in the forums yourself. Look up "etymological" at Merriam-Webster ...
·ker. The reason for this is that the first homograph (the rod) is made up of two parts (ormorphemes): the stempokeand the suffix-er. English spelling division rules require words to be divided between different morphemes so we get the divisionpok·er. However, the secondpoker(the game...