"Suffix" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... instance, Mr. Seebohm (English Village Community, pp. 254 foll.) connects the suffix 'ham' with the Roman 'villa' and apparently argues that the occurrence of the suffix indicates in general the former existence of a 'villa'. But his map showing the percentage of local names ending in 'ham' in various ...
— The Romanization of Roman Britain • F. Haverfield
... the Bororo language consisted in its nouns. Like all savage languages, it was wonderfully rich in botanical and zoological terms. The gender was formed by a suffix, the masculine differing from ...
— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... country-side: something of the old tale whereof you learn so little from the printed page. Each is instinct, perhaps, with a separate suggestion. Some are martial and historic, and by your side the hurrying feet of the dead raise a ghostly dust. The name of yon town — with its Roman or Saxon suffix to British root — hints at much. Many a strong man, wanting his vates sacer, passed silently to Hades for that suffix to obtain. The little rise up yonder on the Downs that breaks their straight green line against the sky showed another sight when the sea of battle surged and beat on its trampled ...
— Pagan Papers • Kenneth Grahame
... I'¢ni'dji, pertaining to the thunder. 3. Kos, cloud; ¢ilhyíl, dark; biyì'dje, within it. 4, 9. N bizaç, his voice again, his voice repeated; qolègo, sounds along, sounds moving. 5, 10. (Be, a prefix forming nouns of the cause or instrument; qojòni, local or terrestrial beauty; go, a suffix to qualifying words); beqojònigo, productive of terrestrial beauty; ani', a voice, a sound. 6. Yùyako, below. 7. Anilçani, grasshopper. 8. Nánise, plants; biçq ko, ...
— The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony • Washington Matthews
... this etext in square brackets ("[]") close to the place where they were indicated by a suffix in ...
— Royalty Restored - or, London under Charles II. • J. Fitzgerald Molloy
... sometimes even of stones chinked with mud. Yet its modern Zuni name is ham' pon ne, from ha we, dried brush, sprigs or leaves; and po an ne, covering, shelter or roof (po a to place over and ne the nominal suffix); which, interpreted, signifies a "brush or leaf shelter." This leads to the inference that the temporary shelter with which the Zunis were acquainted when they formulated the name here given, presumably in their earliest condition, was in shape like the Navajo hogan, but in material, of brush ...
— A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuni Culture Growth. • Frank Hamilton Cushing
... bourne or boundry of the two parishes, Woodhall and Stixwould (or Halstead), where the Welbys lived at that time. The first syllable of Sto-bourne would be “stow” or “stoc” a “stake” or post, marking the boundary; oftener used as a suffix than a prefix, as in Hawkstow, ...
— Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood - Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter • J. Conway Walter
... "A township—the suffix denotes a state of being—seems to be a place which is not in the state of being a town. Does its pride resent the impost of village that it is glad to be called by a name which is no name, or is the word loosely appropriated from ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... possessive are not at hand, but these given indicate that, as in most Malay dialects, a noun with a possessive suffix is one form ...
— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks |
