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  • suffix Used to make adjectives meaning times.
  • suffix Used to make adverbs meaning times.

Etymologies

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From Middle English, from Old English -feald ("-fold"), from Proto-Germanic *-falþaz (“-fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *-poltos (“-fold”). Cognate with Dutch -voud, German -falt, Swedish -faldig ("-fold"), Latin -plus, -plex, Ancient Greek -παλτος, -πλος (-paltos, -plos). More at fold.

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