Crossword-Solution: SUFFIXES
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On the back of an animal
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
ODSALR
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with SUFFIXES (5)
The following additional differences will be noted between this version and the original edition of the printed 1911 thesaurus: (1) the space-saving abbreviations in the original, using hyphens to represent common words, prefixes or suffixes, have been expanded into the full words or phrases.
Some tribes may have used shorter, others longer words or cries: they may have been more or less inclined to agglutinate or to decompose them: they may have modified them by the use of prefixes, suffixes, infixes; by the lengthening and strengthening of vowels or by the shortening and weakening of them, by the condensation or rarefaction of consonants.
Inflections in general have a half-agglutinative character, the meaning and origin of the affixes and suffixes being palpable.
Scheerer[43] gives the possessive suffixes of the Benguet Igorot as follows: My K, after A, I, O, and U, otherwise 'KO Thy } M, after A, I, O, and U, otherwise 'MO Your His } IO Her Our (inc.) 'TAYO Our (exc.) 'ME Your 'DIO Their 'CHA or 'RA These possessive suffixes in the Benguet Igorot language are the same, according to Scheerer, as the suffixes used in verbal formation.
Both belong to the Ugrian stock of agglutinative languages, i.e., those which preserve the root most carefully, and effect all changes of grammar by suffixes attached to the original stein.
Quotes with SUFFIXES (2)
So they went out for a walk. They went through narrow, lightless lanes, where houses that were silent but gave out smells of fish and boiled rice stood on either side of the road. There was not a single tree in sight; no breeze and no sound but the vaguely musical humming of mosquitoes. Once, an ancient taxi wheezed past, taking a short-cut through the lane into the main road, like a comic vintage car passing through a film-set showing the Twenties into the film-set of the pr…
I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2009).