Definitions
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- noun The process of adding a
suffix to a word.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun formation of a word by means of a suffix
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Examples
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I find this a nice counter-example to any claim that English suffixation is obligatorily logical.
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I find this a nice counter-example to any claim that English suffixation is obligatorily logical.
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Obviously there is great variation in how useful, innovative, illogical, lazy, funny, awkward, redundant, etc. these coinages are, but the underlying act (word formation through - y suffixation) has a long and illustrious history.
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And what about the Umbrian suffixation is non-Indo-European anyway?
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This latest group is merely a rebranding (or further classification) of people devoted to the sole purpose of defeating that guy who rightfully won a Democratic presidential election; a loose confederacy of street level strategists who are experts in the fields of clotheslining, kneecapping, smokescreening and all-out denying (also earning the honorary suffixation "ingers").
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I wouldn’t call - y suffixation gaga, but it has become very faddish.
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