Suffixation. (possible change of Class)

SUFFIXES

Suffixes that form nouns from nouns

OCCUPATIONAL

· ER: person that produces something (worker).

other meanings (Londoner).

DIMINUTIVE

· LET: small, unimportant (booklet).

· ETTE: small (cigarette).

imitation (silverette).

female (usherette).

· Y / IE: familiar connotation (mummy, auntie).

STATUS / DOMAIN

· OOD: status (neighbourhood, childhood).

· SHIP: status (friendship).

· DOM: condition (freedom).

· OCRACY: system of government (democracy, aristocracy).

· (E)RY: behaviour (slavery)

place or activity (nursery)

collectivity (machinery).

OTHERS

· ING: substance (golding)

· FUL: amount (mouthful).

· IANA: connected (Etoniana).

Nouns / adjectives to nouns / adjectives.

· ITE: member of a community (Israelite).

· (I)AN: to form personal nouns and non-gradable adjectives (Italian).

· ESE: to form personal nouns and non-gradable adjectives (Chinese).

· IST: member / occupation (socialist, journalist).

· ISM: attitude / movement (communism).

Nouns from verbs.

· ER / OR: to form personal agentive and instrumental nouns (driver, actor).

· ANT: agentive / instrumental nouns (assistant).

· EE: passive personal nouns (employee).

· ATION: abstract nouns / institutions (exploration, organisation).

· MENT: abstract nouns (experiment).

· AL: abstract nouns (refusal).

· ING: activity (driving / painting).

· AGE: activity (drainage).

Nouns from adjectives

· NESS: state (happiness).

· ITY: state (diversity)

· CY: excellency, militancy.

Forming verbs.

· FY: simplify.

· IZE: modernize.

· EN: deafen.

Adjectives.

· FUL: useful.

· LESS: childless.

· LY: friendly.

· LIKE: brotherlike.

· ISH: Turkish, greenish.

· IAN: rafaelian.

Suffixes in borrowed and neoclassical words.

-al, -ial, -ical, -ic, -ive, -ative, -itive, -ous, -eous, -ious.

Adverb suffixes.

· LY: happily.

· WARD(S): backwards.

· WISE: humanwise.