According to Benfey it comes from the root ag ‘to shine,’ by means of the suffix ni; s is the sign of the nominative.
At least one Etruscan suffix has passed into the Romance languages, -i[t]a or -ita in Etr.
It is a common but erroneous opinion of our grammarians, that the unsyllabic suffix st, wherever found, is a modern contraction of the syllable est.
The possessive case takes a suffix both to the possessor and that which is possessed: Murringoo warrangangoong, a man’s boomerang.
Others again have the suffix koual for the male, and ñoual for the female.
Since this idea has been found to be incorrect, however, a system of nomenclature has been adopted which assigns to each enzyme the name of the material upon which it acts, followed by the suffix ase.
As they were first supposed to be proteins, the earlier representatives of the group were given characteristic names ending with the suffix in, similar to that of the proteins.
It is also recorded as an honorific title of Nayars in Travancore, and a suffix to the names of Nayar sons of Travancore sovereigns.
A few families among these, who once had ruling authority, have the titular suffix Bhandarattil, which is corrupted into Pantarattil.
Azurn': modern English has a tendency to use the noun itself as an adjective in cases where older English used an adjective with the suffix -en = made of.
In that case we may note that the use of the suffix -sko- in national names is Indo-European, though not Greek.
In the neighbourhood of Chalon are numerous little towns of no rank whatever as historic or artistic shrines, but bearing the suffix of Royal.
It is not more national to-day than Cavaillon or Carpentras, whereas the suffix Royal meant, if it meant anything, that it was an indication of its ancient rank when it belonged directly to the crown of France.
The creation of a future by the help of the suffix -sya seems to belong to the same period in the history of the verb.
Thus thesuffix tar, which denotes names of kinship and agency, seems to come from the same root as the Lat.
Possibility was symbolized by the attachment of the suffix -ya to the stem, probability by the attachment of -a and -a, and in this way the optative and conjunctive moods first arose.
Thus in modern English we can attach the suffix -ize to almost any word whatsoever, in order to give the latter a transitive meaning, and the Gr.
This origin of the flexions explains the otherwise strange fact that the same suffix may symbolize wholly different grammatical relations.
Necessarily, the same suffix might be used sometimes in a classificatory, sometimes in a flexional sense, and sometimes without any definite sense at all.
The suffix in -um is an accusative, like the corresponding infinitive of classical Sanskrit.
In the same way, the suffix i or ya acquired a feminine sense, and was set apart to represent the feminine gender.
When a particular termination or suffix once acquired a special sense, it would be separated in thought from the stem to which it belonged, and attached in the same sense to other stems and other terminations.
On the contrary, all other verbs receive a new suffix in their future, varying as they are of one or many syllables.
Besides this, the suffix cah accompanies all verbs in the present and imperfect; and the suffix ah accompanies all transitive verbs through the remaining tenses, except the future.
The pronoun receives the verbal power by the suffix itz, and this appears only in later times to have become a sign of the preterit, and in an earlier period to have had a general sense.
The conjugation with the tense sign is changed by a participial suffixinto a verbal, and then the pronoun is suffixed, as in the conjugation without the tense sign.
Its position as a prefix or suffix differs, and it is variously located with reference to the other verbal signs.
This may be explained by the theory that thissuffix conveys the idea to make, which is taken sometimes actively, sometimes passively.
But this suffix has also been adopted by others, especially the Sikhs, and by such castes as the Lodhis and Raj-Gonds who aspire to rank as Rajputs.
The title Rao appears to be a Marathi form of Raj or Raja; it is retained by one or two chiefs, but has now been generally adopted as an honorific suffix by Maratha Brahmans.
The Gonds have a subdivision called Mannewar, and as war is only a Telugu suffix for the plural, the proper name Manne closely resembles Mana.
A fairly close parallel is afforded by the German suffix chen, as in Maedchen.
The suffix [Ch], it may be remarked, belongs especially to the Peking vernacular.
The literal suffix "s" to such names as Bott, Hay, etc.
With the suffix of 'place' or 'land,' it has been written Amessagunticook and Amasaquanteg.
At a later time, wonder, when thus used adverbially, received the adverbial suffix -s; hence Th.
I have also altered the suffix -is into -es in such words as hertes for hertis (l.
When the exact sense was lost, the suffix -al seemed to be adjectival, and the word dismal became at last an adjective.
In combining Eloah with the suffix i, meaning my, and expressing the result in Greek the h would be dropped, for there is no letter h in the Greek alphabet.
The peculiar treatment of this suffix has not been satisfactorily explained.
The suffix -met was used in Vulgar Latin as an intensive prefix.
A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives.
