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Stress-carrying

suffixes

Complex word stress



(mostly of French origin)

1 ade: lemonade 2 ain: entertain 3 aire: millionaire

7 ese: Portuguese / Sudanese 8 esque: picturesque 9 ette: cigarette / statuette 10 eur: connoisseur 11 ique: antique 12 teen: fourteen

4 ee: refugee / employee 5 eer: mountaineer / engineer 6 esce: convalece


Neutral suffixes

Inflectional suffixes [ -s / -es / -er / -est / - ed / -ing ] are stress-neutral. So are the following: comfort + -able anchor + -age refuse + -al (refusal) intimate + -cy (intimacy) wise + -dom (wisdom) wide + -en (widen) wonder + -ful glory + -fy (glorify) neighbour + -hood amaze + -ing (amazing) devil + -ish patron + -ise / -ize

capital + -ism terror + -ist bird + -like power + -less hurried + -ly punish + -ment nimble + -ness poison + -ous craftsman+ -ship other + -wise fun + -y (funny)

Stress-moving suffixes

These suffixes shift the stress to the last syllable of the stem, ie: accent falls on syllable immediately preceding the one containing suffix.

advantage + -eous (advantageous) vary + -ety (variety) photo + -graphy proverb + -ial music + -ian []

congratulate + -ion (congratulation) injure + -ious (injurious) tranquil + -ity (tranquillity) reflex + -ive embryo + -logy

climate + -ic (climatic); exceptions: Arabic, politics, lunatic Accent falls two syllables before syllable containing suffix:

-ate: articulate, associate, certificate, discriminate, inseminate, stimulate, subordinate -fy: amplify, liquefy, magnify, satisfy, stratify

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