A derivational suffix in adverbs: (a) from Old English and derived from nouns; e.g., del -mel, drope -mel, flok -mel, folk -mel, fot -mel, lim -mel, stound -mel; (b) of ME formation, derived from……
A derivational suffix added (usually to verb stems) to make action nouns, concrete nouns, nouns of result, and (less frequently) nouns of state or condition: (a) in words borrowed from French or……
A comparative suffix added to already comparative adjectives and adverbs to form adjectives (e.g. estermore, hindermore, innermore, netheremore, outermore (uttermore), overmore, rathermor); and……
A suffix used to form superlative adjectives from other adjectives, rarely adverbs from adverbs: (a) in words inherited from OE; e.g., aftemeste, firmest adv., forthmost (OE forþmest) adj. & adv……
An inflexional suffix signaling the sg. accusative; exceedingly rare after 1300; used (a) on adjectives modifying nouns that were masculine in OE or ON; (b) (rarely) on participles; (c) on numerals……
A derivational suffix, orig. dimin., added to nouns to form other nouns, often but not invariably diminutives. It occurs in words descended from OE: ballok, bullok, buttok, cammok, galloc,……
A rare derivational suffix [orig. & usually diminutive] in nouns of French origin: chariot(e, galiot n.(1), gigelot, paniot, papelote, piot, etc. Tends to be replaced by -et suf.
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A derivational suffix in words from OF or ML (chiefly the reflexes of Latin third declension nouns in -o, -ōnem): (a) in various words, in which -oun was probably felt as part of the root rather……
A derivational suffix forming agent nouns: auctour, avauntour, gilour, hasardour, malfesour, protectour, saviour, etc.; designations of persons having certain trades, professions, or offices……
A derivational suffix in adjectives; esp. in words of OF or L origin: anoious, barbarus, chevalrous, daungerous, disdeinous, eurous, fortunous, glandelous, grevous, hidous, joious, lapidose,……
A derivational suffix forming nouns in composition with a noun (rarely an adj.) as simplex: (a) in abstract nouns denoting condition or qualities associated with the condition: e.g., broþer-reddene……
A suffix occurring in adverbs and (less frequently) in adjectives inherited from OE or formed in ME. The sense 'straight, straightforward, direct' of OE -riht, forming adjectives, is preserved in ME……
A rare suffix in adverbs inherited from OE or formed in ME, perhaps by analogy with adverbs in -right suf. A few have the sense 'straight, directly': adoun-rightes, doun-rightes (a), forþ-rightes 1. [……
A derivational suffix frequent in nouns of OE origin, denoting a condition, state of being, status, rank, or an office: feondscipe, frendshipe, hethenshipe, lordshipe, refshipe, worshipe, etc.; a……
A suffix occurring in a few adjectives inherited from OE or borrowed from ON, and in many adjectives formed in ME; in ME it could be added to nouns, adjectives, or occasionally verbs. The suffix had……
A suffix added in ME to cardinal numbers, with the meaning 'a group of' or 'in all': e.g., eighte-sum pron., eightetenesom n. (Suppl.), four-som n., fourtisom n. (Suppl.), hundredsom n., ninsom n., si……
An element appended to certain adverbs, preps., conjs., nouns, and adjs. ending in -(e)s, with the -(e)s either representing -es suf.(1) or formed by analogy with it. In preps. it may result from a……
A derivational suffix frequent in abstract nouns of OF or AF origin usu. denoting a quality, state, or condition, e.g., auctorite (c1230), bestial(i)te, charite (?a1160), communalte, contrariete,……
