suffix

For those of you who did not grow up in Yiddish-infused households, let me briefly explain: the suffix -eleh is a diminutive term of affection.

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

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

And because Jefferson's original moniker was spelled as Megalonyx, any other subsequent spellings of the name, like some that utilize the -onix suffix, are incorrect.

From there, they used his established suffixes to come up with a noun.