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Finally three of the four words mentioned seem to be compounded with a suffix; and if this is so it is clearly useless to equate them with words in which this suffix is a component part One class name only, Ungilla, is found in the Arunta area itself (and far beyond it, as far as the Gulf of Carpentaria) with the meaning crow[128].

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  1. noun An affix added to the end of a word or stem, serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending, such as -ness in gentleness, -ing in walking, or -s in sits.
  2. transitive verb To add as a suffix.

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  • The -ista could be considered a pejorative suffix, one that attaches a negative connotation to the root word, as this Wikipedia article explains.
  • This is an exceedingly common verb-suffix, corresponding to the Italian—eggiare. —  Frederic Mistral
  • He sets about it with an array of prefix and suffix, and polysyllabic strength, as if he were about to crush a cob-house with a crowbar. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • At the moment they mostly have to make do with the. org suffix, which is aimed at non-commercial entities. —  Telegraph Blogs
  • 53-56 NOTE.--The names of workers in the various trades and professions are formed by adding the suffix *-ist* to the root-word. —  Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation
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  1. New Latin suffīxum, from Latin, neuter of suffīxus, past participle of suffīgere, to fasten underneath, affix : sub-, sub- + fīgere, to fix, fasten; see dhīgw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin suffixus, subfixus, past participle of suffigere, subfigere, fasten below, fasten or fix on, from sub, under, below, + figere, fasten, fix: see fix, v.
  2. = French suffixe = Spanish sufijo = Portuguese suffixo = Italian soffisso = German suffix, from New Latin suffixum, a suffix, neuter of Latin suffixus, subfixus, past participle of suffigere, subfigere, fasten or fix on: see suffix, v. Cf. affix, prefix, postfix.
 

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