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1. -ane, suffix View full entry
...Occas. English Latin -ānus, perh. orig. French -ain; used, chiefly for sake of distinction, in words that have a parallel form in -an...
2. -ety, suffix View full entry
...Forming extended forms of monosyllabic words chiefly ending in -k, -g, or -p, and used esp. in forming elements of reduplicative compounds; see, for example, ...
3. -id, suffix4 View full entry
...In the nomenclature of mammalian teeth, forming names of component structures of teeth in the lower jaw, as hypoconid, hypoconulid...
4. -ild, suffix View full entry
...(No longer productive in English.) Forming nouns denoting a female of a type indicated by the first element, as beggild, grucchild, motild, etc....
5. -y | -ie, suffix6 View full entry 1941
...Used to form pet names and familiar diminutives. The forms -y and -ie are now almost equally common in proper names as such, but in a few instances...
