American List of Suffixes

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American List of Suffixes -- American English -- Page 1 This is a list of popular American suffixes. I give this list to my students and we go over some selected ones to show them how it works. I start with "tele" which means "at a distance". We then move to "scope" which means "an instrument for seeing" and thus we get from telescope "an instrument for seeing at a distance". Light bulbs begin to go off in the class as they begin to get the connections. We then look at a long word such as "teleconference". "Tele" meaning "at a distance," "confer" meaning to discuss or talk, and "ence" meaning, "act of doing". Thus we have a "doing a discussion at a distance". Suffix Meaning Examples Used able, ible capable of, worthy agreeable, comfortable, credible 1514 age act of or state of salvage, bondage 501 acy, isy quality hypocrisy, piracy 130 al, eal, ial on account of related to, action of judicial, official arrival, refusal 4395 853 ance, ence act or fact of doing state of violence, dependence allowance, insurance 4395 853 ant quality of one who defiant, expectant, reliant occupant, accountant 647 er, or agent, one who author, baker, winner 7618 ed past jumped, baked 5440 ery a place to practice of condition of nunnery, cannery surgery bravery, drudgery 324 dom state, condition of wisdom, kingdom, martyrdom 67 ent having the quality of different, dependent, innocent 1355 en made of, to make woolen, wooden, darken 1416 eur, er, or one who dictator, chauffeur, worker 63

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