Used to form the regular plurals of most nouns and adjectives. · Used to form the irregular plurals of a few nouns and adjectives in -au, -eu (which regularly add -x) and in -al (which regularly make -aux).
eş: -x
köken: Inherited from Middle French -s, from Old French -s, from Latin -os, -es (accusative plural).
suffix indicating the plural of nouns and adjectives ending in certain consonants (most often -l, -r, -n, -d, -z, -j, -s, -x, -ch, with some exceptions).
köken: From Latin -ēs, the accusative plural ending of most third declension nouns.
a suffix forming the plural of a noun; used for most nouns in colloquial language and inanimate nouns in formal language · a suffix used to form certain mass noun, often figurative; plenty of, all kinds of · a suffix used to form certain adverbs
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭩𐭧𐭠 (-īhā).
آب (āb /âb, “water”) + ـها → آبها (āb-hā /âb-hâ, “the waters, plenty of water”)
Forms verbs from nouns and adjectives. The stem of the word itself does not change.
köken: Primarily from weak class 2, from Middle Dutch -en, from Old Dutch -on, from Proto-West Germanic *-ōn, from Proto-Germanic *-ōną, from Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti (denominative) and *-h₂ti (factitive). Also partially from weak class 1 (Old Dutch -en, from Proto-West Germanic *-jan) and strong verbs (Old Dutch -an, from Proto-West Germanic *-an), which, together with the weak class 2 suffix, all…
groot + -en → de groten (“the great ones”)
een + -en → ten enen male
de hertog + -en → des hertogen, a genitive preserved in 's-Hertogenbosch
In the familiar style, a declarative suffix. · In the intimate style, the polite style, or when talking to oneself, an exclamatory suffix conveying a sudden realization.
köken: First appears in the late sixteenth century, originally as -ᄂᆡ (Yale: -noy). Traditionally analyzed as a shortening of Middle Korean ᄂᆞᅌᅵ다〮 (Yale: -no-ngì-tá), from -ᄂᆞ- (Yale: -no-, present-tense suffix) + -ᅌᅵ- (Yale: -ngì-, listener-honoring suffix) + -다〮 (Yale: -tá, declarative suffix), with the last being fully deleted. However, Jang Yun-hui suggests that it may be more appropriate to posit…
inflection of -us: · nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural · nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of -s
köken: From Proto-Italic *-ā, from Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ (suffix originally used to form collective nouns, extended in Late PIE to also be a marker of feminine gender). For the use to form masculine agent nouns from verb roots, compare Latin poeta from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs).
equus m (“horse”) + -a → equa f (“female horse, mare”)
flāmen m (“flamen”) + -a → flāmina f (“wife of a flamen”)
magister m (“master, instructor”) + -a → magistra f (“mistress, instructress”)
A verb-building suffix that can be added to nouns or adjectives. · Marks the infinitive of many or most verbs, and is usually appended to borrowed verbs. · Marks the singular/definite of adjectives.
köken: From Old Danish -æ, from Old Norse -a, from Proto-Germanic *-ōną.
köken: Unknown. As the oblique plural forms include the vowel -e-, it has been suggested that it derives from Proto-Basque *-g, to which the epenthetic vowel was attached before case suffixes. Then, the intervocalic *-g- would be dropped due to its position.