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Affixation (Affixes (Suffixes (Class of words the from (Verb-suffixes (…

- - - - –hood has two meanings: 1) “condition or quality” – falsehood, womanhood; 2) “collection or group” – brotherhood
    - - –ess has only one meaning “female” – tigress, tailoress
  - - - -ck in hillock, -d in dead, -lock in wedlock
    - - -er in officer
  - - - Pejorative de-, dis-, -in-\im-\il-\ir- illogical, irrational
      - Of time and order pre- and post- pre-historic, postgraduate
      - Of repetition reread, recheck
      - Reversative dis- dissappear
      - Negative insensitive, untidy
      - Locative in-, a-, ab-, super-, sub-, trans- transatlantic, income, subway
  - - - Appurtenace
        
        -an, -ian, -ese (e.g. Arabian, Elizabethan, Russian, Chinese, Japanese)
      - Collectivity
        
        -age, -dom, -ery (-ry) (e.g. freightage, officialdom, peasantry)
      - Action agent
        
        -er, -ant (e.g. baker, dancer, defendant)
      - Diminutiveness
        
        -ie, -let, -ling (birdie, girlie, cloudlet, booklet, darling)
    - - Verb-suffixes
        
        -ate facilitate; -er glimmer; -en shorten
      - Adverb-suffixes
        
        -ly coldly; -ward upward; -wise likewise
      - Adjective-suffixes
        
        -able-ible-uble valuable, audible;-ary revolutionary; -ate-ete accurate;
        -ous-ian African
      - Numeral-suffixes
        
        -fold twofold; -teen fourteen; -th seventh; -ty sixty
      - Noun-suffixes
        
        -age breakage; -dom kingdom; -ment government