-sie
-ie
suffix
used to form adjectives having the quality indicated: comfy/ creepy/ sw-nky
used to form nouns
diminutive, affectionate, or familiar versions of what is indicated: auntie/ cubby/ thingy/ tootsie/ folksy
coming from the place or background indicated: arky/ okie/ yalie
a person of the sort indicated: weirdie/ hippy/ sharpy
-sie
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- -sion
a noun suffix appearing in loanwords from latin: compulsion. compare -tion.
- -sis
a suffix appearing in loanwords from greek, where it was used to form from verbs abstract nouns of action, process, state, condition, etc.: thesis; aphesis. -sis suffix in gk. nouns denoting action, process, state, condition, from gk. -sis, which is identical in meaning with l. -entia, eng. -ing.
- -sk
-sk reflexive suffix in words of dan. origin (e.g. bask, lit. “to bathe oneself”), contracted from o.n. sik, reflexive pr-noun corresponding to goth. sik, o.h.g. sih, ger. sich “himself, herself, itself,” from pie base -se- (cf. l. se “himself”).
- -smith
-smith combining word a person who makes or skillfully uses what is indicated; artist: jokesmith/ tunesmith/ wordsmith/ wafflesmith (1813+)
- -sol
a combining form meaning “soil” of the kind specified by the initial element: spodosol.