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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sonek Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives meaning “having the quality of”, either “involving the referent” or “analogous to it”.

   “mess + -y → messy”

2. sonek Added to verbs to form adjectives meaning "inclined to".

   “run + -y → runny”

3. sonek Forming diminutive nouns.

   “gran(nam) + -y → granny”

4. sonek Forming familiar names, pet names, nicknames and terms of endearment.

   “And(rew) + -y → Andy”

5. sonek Added for metrical reasons to songs, often in children's music where it may carry diminutive associations.
6. sonek Forming colloquial nouns signifying the person or thing associated with suffixed noun or verb.

   “fridge + -y → fridgy (“fridge magnet”)”

7. sonek Forming nouns relative to an adjective.

   “bald + -y → baldy”

8. sonek Forming colloquial interjections or phrases.

   “alright + -y → alrighty”

9. sonek Forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state.

   “modest + -y → modesty”

10. sonek Used in the name of some locations which end in -ia in Latin.

    “Italy, Germany, Saxony, Hungary, Sicily, Lombardy, Tuscany, Albany, Brittany, Gascony, Burgundy, Picardy, Normandy, Romandy, Savoy, Muscovy, Tartary, Arcady, Thessaly, Troy, Turkey.”

11. sonek Denotes the infinitive of verbs when used intransitively.

    “But thee, thee wut ruckee, and ſquattee, and doattee in the Chimly Coander lick an Axwaddle ; and wi' the zame tha wut rakee up, and gookee, and tell doil, tell Dildrams and Buckingham Jenkins.”