suffix

“I think Spire is just the suffix,” said Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi.

At a later time, wonder, when thus used adverbially, received the adverbial suffix -s; hence Th.

When the exact sense was lost, the suffix -al seemed to be adjectival, and the word dismal became at last an adjective.

This suffix is the equivalent of the French -age, and is a suffix of frequent occurrence in forming new words.

I have a list now before me of 521 places with this suffix, distributed over twenty-five counties.

Exeter, Wroxeter and perhaps Uttoxeter show the suffix in slightly different form.