CLAS 1P94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Provisional Irish Republican Army, Chiropractic, Pediatrics
28 Apr 2018
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NOUN FORMING SUFFIXES TO LEARN
1. –ician, ‘specialist in, practitioner of’
electrician= from ELECT-, electricity
technician = from TECHN-, art, skill
2. –ism, ‘belief in, practice of, condition of’
communism = from COMMUN-, common
despotism = from DESPOT-, absolute ruler
3. -ist ‘one who believes in, one engaged in’
antagonist = from ANT-, AGON-, struggle
4. –ite, ‘one connected with, inhabitant of’ (also used to denote
chemicals, minerals, etc.)
Israelite
dynamite = from DYNAM-, force
*if followed by another suffix, the final –e falls off: sybaritic
5. –ast, -st, ‘one who does’
gymnast = from GYMN-, naked
enthusiast = from EN-, THUS(I) (THEOS) god
analyst = ANA-, LY- to loosen
6. –t, -te, ‘he who, that which’ poet
= from POE- to make athlete =
from ATHLE- to contend pirate =
from PIRA- to attempt
7. –y, -ia, ‘quality of, state of, act of’
agony = from AGON-, struggle
anemia = from AN-, (H)EM-, blood
philanthropy = from PHIL-, to love and ANTHROP-, man
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