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suffix (something) onto (something else)

To add an affix onto the end of an existing word or stem in order to create a new word or an inflectional ending. The most common way to form the past tense is by suffixing "-ed" onto a verb. You can make certain nouns feminine by suffixing "-ette" onto the end of them.
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suffix something onto something

to add an inflection or other part of a word onto another word. The students were told to suffix the correct plural marker onto all the nouns in the list. What do you get when you suffix -ed onto a verb like talk?
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The result demonstrates that one-fourth of the productions, that is 16 out of 64 incorrect stress placements, of the roots of the suffix, cial or tial were wrong.
Stress Placement in English Bi-Syllabic and Tri-Syllabic Suffixed Words and their Roots by Pashto Speakers in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (Pakistan)
Systematic formation of adverbs is, in Slovak, carried out by means of attaching the suffix '-o'.
Derivational paradigm--is there any? A contrastive research
The controlled variables (shown in Table 3) were neighborhood density (0-5), number of letters (6-11), family size of stems (5-12), suffix letter length (2-5) and frequency of the initial bigram.
The role of derivative suffix productivity in the visual word recognition of complex words/El papel de la productividad de los sufijos derivativos en el reconocimiento visual de palabras complejas
suffix -liq allomorphs -liy; -liq; -luy; -lug; They unite suffix and vowel and consonant changes in harmony with the root word vowel.
Word formation models and semantic features of derived words in Orhon inscriptions (derivations of nouns and adjectives)
they had to remove the suffix from the word given, as in:
Advanced students' L1 (Swedish) and L2 (English) mastery of suffixation
d) the -m(V) nominal suffix that has also become obscured, unproductive and rare.
The -m(V) nominal derivational suffixes in Erzya-Mordvin
Level ordering, as pointed out above, has concentrated on suffix combination.
Closing suffixes in Old English: a study based on recursive affixation
This array indicates for each suffix of w, the length of its longest prefix occurring in s.
Efficient repeat finding in sets of strings via suffix arrays
For Khorasan Ulrich Seeger (2002: 635) does not give complete paradigms, but he shows the -n suffixed to the AP stem for MSG, and to the FSG suffix for the feminine singular.
The historical linguistics of the intrusive *-n in Arabic and West Semitic
Previous studies that compared various experimental results and simulation results [11]-[16], have demonstrated that the skip-based algorithms with multi-byte suffix matching performas well.
Probabilistic model for performance analysis of a heuristic with multi-byte suffix matching
Two Chinese online companies, Sina (Nasdaq: SINA) and Tencent Holdings (PINK: TCHCY) will battle for the Chinese suffix for Weibo, a Chinese-language blog that resembles Twitter.
What's In A Dot.com Name? Amazon, Google Think Plenty But Not Apple
ICANN has received at least $350 million in applications fees, which will pay for the organisation's costs setting up the system, reviewing applications and making sure parties do what they have promised once the suffix is operational.
List of internet suffix expansions to be revealed
The suffix -dom forms denominal and deadjectival abstract nouns with the meaning 'state, condition, fact of being, action of.
Morphological relatedness and the grammaticalization of Old English -bora
Bulgaria still has opportunities available to register its desired suffix, according to the country's newly appointed Deputy Minister of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications, Valeri Borisov.
Bulgaria Tries Once Again to Register Cyrillic Domain Name
Two conservationist groups already want the suffix ".
NET NAME GAIN; Web shake-up set to unleash huge number of new domains
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