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Morpheme Set 4

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Based on English Vocabulary Elements, Keith Denning and William Leben, Oxford University Press 1995
A = 'Adjective Suffix'; N = 'Noun Suffix'; V = 'Verb Suffix'

alg

'pain'

aur

'ear'

brev

'brief, short'

cli / cliv / clin

'lean, lie, bed'

col

'live, inhabit, grow'

curs / curr

'run'

dactyl

'finger, digit'

den / odon

'tooth'

dendr / dr / dry

'tree'

ge

'earth'

graph / gram

'write, record'

hem / em

'blood'

-ia

N [land, state, medical condition]

ichthy

'fish'

-ile

A

-itis

N [inflammation]

jus / jur

'judge, law, ritual'

lab

'take, seize'

lat

'carry'

lig

'tie, bind' (both physically and in the sense of social or financial ties, eg. obligation)'

loqu / loc

'speak'

magn

'great, large'

mal / male

'bad' (as in 'evil, wicked' compare with dys- ' )

mant / manc

'prophesy'

mater / metr

'mother, womb, surrounding stuff'

mit, mis, miss

'send, do'

nav / naut

'boat, seafaring'

noc / nyc

'night'

nomen / onom / onym

'name'

-oma

'tumor, growth'

op / opthalm

'eye, see'

orn / ornith

'bird'

orth

'straight, correct'

os / osteo

'bone'

ot

'ear'

paleo

'old'

pater

'father, country'

ped / paed

'child, teach'

ped / pod / pus

'foot'

phag

'eat'

phob

'fear'

phyt

'plant' ('a plant' or 'to plant or grow')

plen / ple

'full, many'

pne / pneum

'lung, respiration'

pter

'feather, wing'

salv / salu

'safe, healthy'

sed / sid / sess

'sit'

sen

'old'

sep

'putrid, infected'

sequ / secu

'follow'

solv

'loosen, unbind'

som

'body' ('physical body', as opposed to the mind)

soph

'wise, knowledge'

soror

'sister'

telo- / teleo-

'end, complete'

terr

'earth'

the

'place, put'

trop

'turn'

-um

N

voc / vok

'speak, call, voice'


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