Difference between revisions of "Suffix"

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*German [[Suffix (de)]]
 
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*Russian [[суффикс]]
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*Czech [[přípona]], sufix
 
*Spanish [[sufijo]]
 
*Spanish [[sufijo]]
  
 
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Revision as of 21:40, 25 October 2008

A suffix is an affix which follows its base.

Comments

  • “The term “affix”, which was used in §§24 and 28, is grammatical: it subsumes bound forms of certain kinds. But the apparently parallel terms “prefix”, "suffix”, “infix” are not grammatical; they refer, rather to positional classes of the morphs which represent bound forms.” (Hockett 1958:286)

Synonyms

  • infix (in African linguistics)
  • ending (used especially for inflectional suffxes)
  • desinence (used especially for inflectional suffxes)

Origin

The OED's first attestation is from 1778. The term is derived from Latin suffīgere ‘attach’.

Reference

  • Hockett, Charles. 1958. A course in modern linguistics. New York: Macmillan.

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