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Definition of Suffixing
1. suffix [v] - See also: suffix
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffixing
Literary usage of Suffixing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"The Esquimaux, common to both continents, is wholly suffixing; the Araucan, which
occupies so large a space near the southern extremity of the ..."
2. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"THE FORMATION or THE PRETERITE BY suffixing SOME PARTICLE OR SIGN OF PAST
TIME.—This, with the exception of the very few verbs included in the previous ..."
3. A Japanese Grammar by Johann Joseph Hoffmann (1868)
"By suffixing re the adverbs of place become substantive pronouns, which refer to
something (whether person or thing, remains undetermined) as being present ..."
4. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"by suffixing a sign of past time. 1. THE FORMATION OF THE PRETERITE BY REDUPLICATION
OP THE FINAL CONSONANT. ..."
5. A Grammar of the English Language by William Fewsmith, Edgar Arthur Singer (1866)
"Nouns ending with y immediately preceded by a consonant, become plural by the
change of y into i and the suffixing of es; as, study, studies; army, armies. ..."
6. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"The personal pronouns, as has already been observed, form their possessive by
suffixing nu or ni—eg, mi-mu, or mi-ni, my. Compare the Mongolian kol-un, ..."
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