User:Dan Polansky/Suffix
English
[edit]All on English suffixes including pseudo-suffixes:
Noun suffix
[edit]Suffixes for qualities alias properties or states or conditions:
- -ness: goodness, darkness, kindness, brightness, completeness (tendency: Germanic roots?, but "completeness")
- -ity: parametricity, generosity, acidity, subjectivity, additivity, separability, complexity, nominality (tendency: Latin roots?)
- -ability (from -able): separability, repairability, enjoyability, feasibility, possibility, doability (rare: feasibleness, common: enjoyableness)
- -icity (from -ic): toxicity, parametricity, organicity, algorithmicity
- -ivity (from -ive): subjectivity, additivity, commutativity (rare: commutativeness)
- -ality (from -al): nominality, radicality, reality (rare: realness)
- -hood: likelihood, falsehood (mostly used for noun-derived qualities such as objecthood and parenthood)
- -ry: bravery
- -cy: normalcy
- -ance: resistance, ignorance, capacitance
- -ence: coherence, persistence, consistence, complacence, transparence, excellence, diligence, intelligence, magnificence, innocence
- -ency: coherency, persistency, consistency, complacency, transparency, solvency
Suffixes for action:
- -al: arousal, arrival, denial, proposal, reversal, removal
- -ion: transformation, reformation, deformation, stagnation, inflation
Suffixes for active person:
- -or: actor, director, aviator
- -ator (Latin-based: cur-o --> cur-ator): administrator, annihilator, curator, orator, procurator
- -er: worker, fisher, manager, programmer, crimper, interviewer
- -eer: auctioneer, charioteer, mutineer, puppeteer
- -ant: servant, consultant, defendant
Suffixes for active thing:
- -or: tractor, rotor, motor
- -ator (Latin-based: cur-o --> cur-ator): respirator, ventilator
- -ant: reactant
Suffixes for passive person:
- -ee: employee, examinee, interviewee, nominee
Adjective suffix
[edit]- -ic: parametric, geometric, algorithmic, nomadic, acidic, semantic, alphabetic
- -ical: parametrical, geometrical, mythical, semantical, alphabetical
- -al: adjectival, phrasal, lineal, basal, cranial, nominal
- -ial: adverbial, commercial, spatial, tangential
- -ian: Aesopian, Albanian, Babylonian, Canadian, Russian
- -ian: Aristotelian, Baconian, Hegelian, Kuhnian, Popperian, Wittgensteinian
- -ish: girlish, boyish
- -ish: greenish, grayish, reddish
- -ish: Danish, British, English, Spanish
- -ive: administrative, conclusive, native, diminutive, negative, positive
- -ous: odorous, courageous, joyous, poisonous, riotous
- -able: enjoyable, repairable, confirmable, refutable
- -less: fearless, hopeless, restless
- -ient: obedient, subservient, lenient
- -ent: persistent, resistent, consistent, affluent
Verb suffix
[edit]- -ate: marinate, abbreviate, truncate
- -fy: classify, horrify, intensify, liquefy, purify, satisfy, solidify, stupefy
- -ize: crystalize, materialize, formalize
- -lyze: analyze, paralyze, catalyze
See also
[edit]Czech
[edit]Noun suffix
[edit]Suffixes for qualities alias properties or states or conditions:
- -ost: laskavost, jasnost (but also "jas"), úplnost, štědrost, hmotnost
- -ství: bratrství, rodičovství, mistrovství
- -ovství: rodičovství, mistrovství
Other suffixes:
- -stvo: lidstvo, bratrstvo, mužstvo
Adjective suffix
[edit]- -ký: řecký, německý, ruský (attributive suffix)
- -ský: britský, pražský, mořský, ženský (attributive suffix)
- -ovský: mistrovský, rodičovský
- -cký: (such as what?)
German
[edit]All on German suffixes including pseudo-suffixes:
Noun suffix
[edit]Suffixes for qualities alias properties or states or conditions:
- -heit: Frechheit, Schönheit, Dummheit
- -keit: Wirksamkeit, Langsamkeit, Müdigkeit