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It so happens that .si is the top-level suffix for Slovenia's internet domain names registry, which both locals and foreigners can request.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

PS: The Nightshade suffix refers to an exterior trim grade that bundles together the blacked-out grille, badging, 20-inch wheels, mirror caps, door handles, roof pillars and lower rear bumper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

It comes from the Welsh pwdu, meaning to sulk, which itself originated with the English word pout, combined with the Welsh verb-forming suffix -u.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025

The word “logic” comes from the Greek term “logos” which is the root for our suffix -ology.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024

Exception 2.—A few words ending in e drop the e before a suffix beginning with a consonant: as, judge + ment = judgment; lodge + ment = lodgment; abridge + ment = abridgment.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

And while “-boy” and “-girl” are both common gendered suffixes used across comic history, the girls have appeared more frequently in cinematic adaptations.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

The suffixes “ist” and “ism,” as I’ve said before in these pages, assume conscious belief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

She closely reads passages from their textbooks, breaks apart prefixes and suffixes and identifies root words.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

"For those who want .ai suffixes, I'm seeing sales in the low five-figures, and sometimes in the six figures," he says.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023

NOTE.—These suffixes are found only in Latin words of Greek origin.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

Tamar-kali — a Biblical name suffixed with the Sanskrit word for “black one” — hails from New York, but she’s quick to acknowledge her ancestry of enslaved Africans in the American South.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2020

In neighboring states, and in some tribal areas, the “holou” is suffixed with bandar, monkey.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 18, 2018

“Every Sculpture Needs a Trapdoor” doubles down: A mishmash of ecru plates is impaled by a cylinder, then suffixed with a photocopied page from an essay on Sandback by the artist Andrea Fraser.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2017

Albeit suffixed by "why isn't this on BBC3?"

From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2013

Finally, in its suffixed form woid-o, it became the Sanskrit word veda.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Of course, the extraordinary four-decade-old scandal — which sparked the media’s penchant for suffixing every scandal with “gate” — stays with us because of its lasting political effects and lessons for the country.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2015

The ubiquity of “Design” has rendered itself in many forms, prefixing and suffixing subjects including graphic, product, industrial, computer, systems, architecture, community, environments, molecules, and more.

From Forbes ● Oct. 10, 2012

Gunzh is the radix for plant; Tig for tree; Asee for animal, &c.; and either by suffixing or prefixing syllabical increments, the terminology of the three great departments of nature is formed.

From Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The preterit of the second permissive is formed by suffixing ritomo to the preterit indicative; e.g., agueta ritomo 'although he had offered it.'

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear

Formal derivation is accomplished by means of suffixing the elements of relations; pronominal signs are nevertheless not only suffixed, but also prefixed to verbs.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Wentworth Webster