Definitions
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- suffix of or pertaining to; adjective suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also.
- suffix Appended to nouns to form an
agent noun .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Arab word talib, “student,” has been given a Persian suffix, -an, which is an unusual amalgam or was a mistake.
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The Arab word talib, “student,” has been given a Persian suffix, -an, which is an unusual amalgam or was a mistake.
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After all, singular genitive endings in Old English also included -e and -an.
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After all, singular genitive endings in Old English also included -e and -an.
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The arena is full of raving fans -an heterogeneous crowd of teens to forty somethings- and if it weren't for the fact that is 2pm on a weekday, you would easily think you were in a rock concert ready to party all night long.
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The arena is full of raving fans -an heterogeneous crowd of teens to forty somethings- and if it weren't for the fact that is 2pm on a weekday, you would easily think you were in a rock concert ready to party all night long.
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The arena is full of raving fans -an heterogeneous crowd of teens to forty somethings- and if it weren't for the fact that is 2pm on a weekday, you would easily think you were in a rock concert ready to party all night long.
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The arena is full of raving fans -an heterogeneous crowd of teens to forty somethings- and if it weren't for the fact that is 2pm on a weekday, you would easily think you were in a rock concert ready to party all night long.
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I can explain where the -an in Talib-an came from: -an is the regular animatemasculine plural ending in Pashto, the native language of the vast majorityof the Taliban.
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I can explain where the -an in Talib-an came from: -an is the regular animatemasculine plural ending in Pashto, the native language of the vast majorityof the Taliban.
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