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Suffix
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suffix
A designation added to the end of a name. For example, ".com" is the suffix added to commercial domain names on the Internet. See TLD and Internet domain name.
Suffix 

an affix added to the root of a word. Depending on their function, suffixes are derivational (word-forming) or relational (form-building).

In inflected languages, the relational suffix at the end of a word form is called the inflection, or ending. A word may contain several suffixes of both types. For example, the Russian adjective chita-tel’-sk-ii (“reader’s”) has two derivational suffixes (-tel’- and -sk-) and one relational suffix (-ii). Derivational suffixes are classified according to their lexical meaning; relational suffixes are classified according to their grammatical meaning.
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Languages in the region display an usually high prevalence of suffixation patterns used to signal syntactic subordination.
Subordination and coordination strategies in North Asian languages by Reference & Research Book News
Derivational relations in Czech We discuss the two main mechanisms of Czech derivational morphology, namely suffixation and prefixation.
Derivational relations in English, Czech and Zulu ... by Bosch, S.; Fellbaum, C.; Pala, K. / Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
In reality, counterexamples occur, especially with nouns bearing possessive suffixation (Px), where the general rule is valid in the first and second persons, but in the third person the accusative suffix is sometimes found next to Px or, contrary to what the rule would predict, is not found even on definite objects, as in 3: (3) n[?
Unmarked object in the Uralic languages. A diachronic typological ... by Havas, Ferenc / Linguistica Uralica
 
 
 
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