age
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Although Fuchs, 29, has been having the usual youth-v. -age difficulties�Teammate Sabine Sebrowski recently beat her�she is at her peak for Montreal.
From Time Magazine Archive
NOTE.—The suffix -age is found only in French-Latin derivatives.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
We incline to think rather that it corresponds to -age, being added chiefly to words in e. -age fits rather upon stems in a. gounfle, swollen. gounflige, swelling.
From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Downer, Charles Alfred
This suffix is the equivalent of the French -age, and is a suffix of frequent occurrence in forming new words.
From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Downer, Charles Alfred
Examples of words formed in imitation of these in English itself are blockade, orangeade. -age, ending of abstract nouns, as homage; marks place where, as vicarage;—of English formation, bondage, brewage, parsonage.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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