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Definition of Suffixal
1. Adjective. (context: of a word) That may be modified by the addition of a suffix ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a term) Taking the role of a suffix ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suffixal
1. pertaining to or being a suffix [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffixal
Literary usage of Suffixal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of the Player-piano: A Text-book for Student and Teacher by Sydney Grew (1922)
"Take the triple-time trochee 1-2 3; imagine a slight characteristic stress on
the short; and add a one-count short, in suffixal relation. ..."
2. The Public School Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools, Colleges, and by Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1890)
"On the other hand, it is probable that the root äg is suffixal (ïg, âg, ïg, ûg)
in various ... This is the most efficient suffixal letter in Aryan language. ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Nay, as the same law would apply with equal force to suffixal vowels, the suffix
nu would have to be called пан or neu ; and, in explaining, for instance, ..."
4. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1919)
"As to the scope of the compound and the suffixal passive Tr. has gone far, perhaps
farther than most dialects, in the direction of substituting entirely the ..."
5. An Old English grammar by Eduard Sievers, Albert Stanburrough Cook (1903)
"The words which have preserved at least traces of the suffixal s fall into two
classes: 289. The first class comprises those words which retain under all ..."
6. An Old English grammar by Eduard Sievers (1903)
"The words which have preserved at least traces of the suffixal s fall into two
classes : 289. The first class comprises those words which retain under all ..."
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