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Friday, Apr 13, 2007

Suffixes -IS - Adjectives ending in IS

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Adjectives that terminate in IS have a participle meaning, and denote a quality of the base word, in this case, the base word is a verbal root.

When IS is added to a foreign base, or a compound nominal base, it signifies more often "being" or "having" the quality implied by the base.

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