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Definitions for suffixation
səˈfɪk ʃənsuf·fix·a·tion

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  1. suffixationnoun

    formation of a word by means of a suffix

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  1. suffixationnoun

    The process of adding a suffix to a word.

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  1. suffixation

    In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information (inflectional suffixes) or lexical information (derivational/lexical suffixes). An inflectional suffix or a grammatical suffix. Such inflection changes the grammatical properties of a word within its syntactic category. For derivational suffixes, they can be divided into two categories: class-changing derivation and class-maintaining derivation. Particularly in the study of Semitic languages, suffixes are called affirmatives, as they can alter the form of the words. In Indo-European studies, a distinction is made between suffixes and endings (see Proto-Indo-European root). Suffixes can carry grammatical information or lexical information. A word-final segment that is somewhere between a free morpheme and a bound morpheme is known as a suffixoid or a semi-suffix (e.g., English -like or German -freundlich "friendly").

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  1. suffixation

    Suffixation is the linguistic process of adding a suffix to the root or base of a word to create a new word or to change the function, meaning, or grammatical category of the original word. A suffix is a letter or group of letters added at the end of a word. Examples of suffixation include using "-ness" to change "happy" to "happiness" or "-ed" to change "play" to "played."

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of suffixation in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of suffixation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9


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